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Welcome to Lower Key Stage 2!

We are excited to embark on a fantastic learning journey with our Year 3 and Year 4 students! Here in Lower Key Stage 2, we believe that every child is a unique learner, full of potential and curiosity. Our team fosters a warm and nurturing environment where children feel safe to explore, create, and discover new ideas.

Through engaging lessons and hands-on activities, we encourage our students to develop critical thinking skills, build confidence, and work collaboratively with their peers. We place a strong emphasis on the joy of learning, ensuring that every child develops a love for reading, writing, and problem-solving.

We also celebrate our diverse community, embracing each child's individuality and encouraging them to express themselves. Together, we will create wonderful memories and lifelong skills!

Welcome to an exciting year ahead!

Our Year 3 & 4 Team

Regular Weekly Timetable

PE

• Thursday - Class 3 
• Friday - Class 3/4

SWIMMING: Thursday. Class 4 will go from September 2024 to February half term 2025. Y4 children in Class 3/4 will go from February half term 2025 until July 2025.

Library days: 

• Wednesday - Class 3, Class 4
• Friday - Class 3/4

HOMEWORK:  Our homework focuses on basic skills that support the foundations of learning: spellings, number facts/times tables and reading (listening to your children read).

TT ROCKSTARS: Your child can use these safely at home at any point under your supervision and monitoring. TT Rockstars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times table practice. You can also check on their progress at any stage. Children have their own log ins to access TT Rockstars at home. Other maths apps may also be used, information will be shared by class teachers.

NUMBOTS: Your child can use Numbots safely at home at any point under your supervision and monitoring. Numbots is all about every child achieving the "triple win" of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, so that they move from counting to calculating. Children have their own log in which is in their reading record.

MYMATHS: MyMaths is an interactive online teaching and homework subscription website for schools that builds pupil engagement and consolidates maths knowledge. Each week children will be set an online homework to complete. There are also a range of games for the children to play which link to what they have been learning in class.

1 MINUTE MATHS (WHITE ROSE MATHS HUB): 1-Minute Maths offers children engaging and easily accessible practice in basic number. There's no specific route or starting point. Having chosen a topic, each user answers a series of randomly generated questions (a different set of questions every time means they learn the concept, not a sequence of answers).

READING BOOKS: Reading books are handed out on Monday and are to be returned on Thursday. Please read as regularly as possible with your children.

As we have a mixed Year 3 / Year 4 class, as well as a Year 3 class and a Year 4 class, we have a 2 year rolling programme to ensure that all aspects of the curriculum are taught in a progressive manner. Children build upon prior learning, they do not simply repeat learning. Below is our 2 year curriculum overview for LKS2, showing areas of learning for each Foundation Subject. We are currently in Year A. We will move to Year B in September 2025.

To see the whole school curriculum overview, you can download the file at the bottom of the page.

The I Can Help Information that has been shared for Phonics, Reading, Writing and Maths can be found on the curriculum pages.

Please find below the overview of learning in LKS2 for Spring 1 2025

You can find the curriculum overviews for other terms in the files section below.