Dove - Y3/4

Welcome to Dove!

We are a mixed class from years 3&4 and you will find us in the KS2 corridor, in the classroom nearest the hall.

Classroom Locations

Miss Babs Blake, Dove Teacher

Miss Beth Ponting, Teaching Assistant

Our teacher is Miss Blake and our teaching assistants are Miss Ponting & Miss Nicholson.

If you have any questions, you can email Miss Blake: fpsdove@palladianacademytrust.com

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.

Here are some pictures of our dragon eyes that we made in Term 2:

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

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