Year 3/4 is led by Mrs Greenall, Mr Brown, Mrs Hinkins, and Mrs Metcalf, and supported by Mrs Quill, Miss Remnant, Mrs Noble and Mrs Clarke.

The Autumn Term in Year 3/4 is full of interesting and exciting learning including a Stone Age Day at St Catherine’s Wood where will be fully emersed in Stone Age life as part of our History topic.

In English, pupils will explore four engaging texts through the Writing Roots programme, developing purposeful writing for real audiences. They’ll write poems, letters, guides and stories inspired by The Wilderness, Leon and the Place Between, The Barnabus Project, and The Seed of Doubt. Activities include outdoor exploration, drama, imaginative pet creation, and aspirational reflection. Children will write in role, craft persuasive brochures, and produce motivational leaflets to inspire others. Each unit builds vocabulary, resilience, and creativity, encouraging children to express emotions, explore character perspectives, and dream big. Through this rich, text-based approach, pupils will become confident, thoughtful writers with a strong sense of voice and purpose. Their final pieces will be celebrated and shared across the school community'

The SPaG elements are taught in context—woven into meaningful writing tasks like poems, letters, brochures, and stories—so children learn to apply them with purpose. It’s all about making grammar functional and fun!

In Maths, we will be exploring place value, number operations, and Shape. Alongside this, we will be focussing on our times tables with daily practice.

Our Science topics will include Animals including humans where we will explore food groups and nutrition, skeletons and muscles. We will then move to look at Rocks and fossils where we will learn about different rock types, the rock cycle and how fossils are formed. We would love to see any interesting rocks or fossils children may have at home during this topic.

Year 3 children will have PE on Tuesday afternoon and Year 4 will have PE on Friday afternoon.