Puffin - Y3/4

Welcome to Puffin!

Welcome to Puffin class. We are a mixed class from years 3&4 and you will find us in the classroom opposite the hall. We are a respectful, ready and safe class, who enjoy being creative. We will do lots of inspiring and engaging learning throughout the year. There will be a key focus of times tables, presentation and reading. We have an exciting year ahead!

Mr Iestyn Phillips, Puffin Teacher

Mrs Sara Clifford, Teaching Assistant

Miss Tabitha Anderson, Teaching Assistant

Classroom Locations

Our teacher is Mr Phillips and our teaching assistants are: Sara,  and Miss Anderson. 

If you have any questions, you can email Mr Phillips at fpspuffin@palladianacademytrust.com

Homework, Spellings And Knowledge Organisers, Meet the Teacher Can Be Found In The Document List At The Bottom Of This Page.

Term 1

What a busy start to the new school year.

This term year 3 and 4 have being investigating skeletons of humans and animals, many children were inspired by this and chose to make working models for their creative homework. Some children decided to look into their family tree and made some great discoveries about their family back stories.

In writing, we have written fantasy stories based on the book ‘Charlie changes into a chicken’, the children wrote about them transforming into an array of animals and the problems that might they encounter along the way. We were also fortunate to go on a trip to the Bath literacy festival and meet the author and illustrator of ‘Dexter Procter’, the children came away feeling inspired to read their own copy of the book, all 304 pages..

In Art, we have been focusing on creating 3D sculptures from 2D ideas, we have worked with clay and wire. We learnt the rules of netball and have enjoyed playing small games and shooting for goal, also in gym we have created our own routines that have incorporated; shapes, positions, jumps, rolls and balances. Mammia Mia was our song stimulus for Music this term, which was performed by Doves class to their parents in assembly accompanied by glockenspiels.

We are looking forward to see what next term brings!

Term 6

The last term of this year! We have had a brilliant start to term 6, after recieving a letter from an anonymous person. They had written to year 3&4 about their missing Mesopotamian Blue cat, called Varjak. The children were given a detailed description and designed missing posters to put around the school. This led to the discovery of our new class book 'Varjak Paw'. The children will be writing newspaper reports about the mysterious vanishings that have occured.

In science, the children are investigating states of matter. They will conduct experiments to observe the changes and evaluate their findings. The children will also be learning about the water cycle.

In geography, year 3&4 are researching the features of rivers. We will investigate how rivers are used, how they are formed and where they are located.

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