Chandra, Sputnik & Voyager Class Blog

This week year 3/4 went on their trip to Bristol to visit, ‘The Matthew’. It was a great day for all three classes and it helped us to imagine what it would have been like to be an explorer from the ‘Age of Exploration.’ We learned about John Cabot and

Year 3/4 have been working hard again this week… In art we have been looking at the artist Paul Klee. We discovered that he was influenced by balance, music and colour. We looked at several pieces of his art work. We talked about what we could see in the paintings

This week has been an adventure – we’re afraid we don’t have any pictures to share as we’ve been so busy with our learning. In English we have been continuing to work on our writing based on the book Varjak Paw. We have been thinking about the setting and how

This week in school we have had a focus on World Book Day. This means that we have been doing lots of activities related to reading. The week was launched with an assembly about the event. Children got creative and made ‘Story Jars’ at home to bring in – we

Welcome back after the half term holiday – we hope you managed to have a restful and relaxing break! Our theme in PSHE this term is, ‘Healthy Me’. We played a game called Jigsaw Jaz says to help us think about the effects of exercise on our body. We then

Year 3/4 have been learning about Rock and Soil in science this term. We shared our learning with year 2. The year 3/4 children certainly rose to the challenge to become teachers and explain what they had learned…                    

In Year 3/4, as part of our theme in PSHE, ‘Dreams and Goals’, we have been finding out about Jane Goodall. She had a dream when she was younger to work with animals. She was given a toy chimp which she called Jubilee and this led to her love of

It’s been another busy week in year 3/4! This week in our PE lessons we have been concentrating on working with a partner to create large and small shapes as part of our dance lessons. We then moved on to make bridging shapes.          

Yet again it has been a very busy week in Year 3 and 4. During our enquiry work, we have been finding out why Europeans from the 15 century went exploring. This week we discovered that it was to establish trade routes, for gold, silk and spices and for scientific

Welcome back to school. We hope that you had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year. As we look towards the new term in Year 3/4, please find some information about what will be happening as well other expectations regarding home learning. Our enquiry question is: ‘Why did Europeans Explore?’ It is a