Dove - Y3/4

Welcome to Dove!

Welcome to Dove 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!

Our teacher is Miss Blake & our teaching assistant is Mrs Cottrell.

If you have any questions, you can email us at FPSdove@PalladianAcademyTrust.com

Miss Babs Blake, Dove Teacher

Mrs Heidi Cottrell, Teaching Assistant

Homework, Spellings & Knowledge Organisers, Meet the Teacher PPT can be found in the document list at the bottom of this page.

Term 5

In term five, we will be reading ‘The Secret Explorers and the Rainforest Rangers’, this will tie into our Geography topic in which will be learning all about the rainforest. We will be using the book ‘Up in the canopy’ during our writing sessions, with the end target is to write an explanation text about the rainforest. We will also be learning all about plants in science; each child will be given a sunflower seed, the children’s job is the nurture and grow their seed to see who has the tallest sunflower by end of term 6, happy gardening!

Term 4

Year 3 and 4 have had another very busy time , learning all about light and the Maya civilisation. We have learnt all about how light travels, that light is white and how we see light. This term, we have been reading ‘The Genius of the Maya’, we have used this text in our English lessons to write information posters about an aspect of Mayan culture; did you know the Mayans should be thanked for giving us chocolate! Our fabulous finisher was a fantastic trip to ‘We the curious’ in Bristol, the children attended a light and shadow workshop and visited the planetarium, a great day out was had by everyone. This term, all the children have been working hard to be ready to perform their end of term production of ‘Panto Pandemonium’, the children should be very proud of themselves, what a great show!

Term 3

Year 3 and 4 have had a very busy time this term, learning all about volcanoes and rocks. We have learnt all about how volcanoes are formed and the different layers of our Earth. We have enjoyed doing practical experiments with real rocks, to test how their attributes differ. At the end of the term, we erupted our volcanos that we made for our creative homework, well done to the children, their volcanoes were amazing. This term, we have been reading ‘The Wild Robot’ by Peter Brown, we have used this text in our English lessons to write setting descriptions based on the island areas discovered by Roz the robot in the book. Puffins and Dove have been fortunate to have an expert PE coach to teach them the rules and skills of hockey, whilst Kingfishers have been machine dancing!

Term 2

This term, we have enjoyed learning about Ancient Egypt. We have been reading the book Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx and have written our own playscripts. We enjoyed our class trip to Bristol Museum and enjoyed seeing sarcophaguses and other artefacts. In maths we have been mastering our column addition and subtraction methods. We enjoyed learning about sound in science and made our own string telephones. Kingfisher and Dove have been fortunate to have a PE coach teach them the rules and skills of hockey, whilst Puffin have been playing tag rugby.

Our online visitor from the USA

We were very fortunate to have an online Egyptology lesson all the way from Tennessee, USA, courtesy of Dr Carol Eckert. She is a professor in Egyptian studies at Tennessee University, she talked the children about life in Ancient Egypt and we had a Q& A session where the children could talk to her about the upcoming creative homework.

Online history lesson from Tennessee

Charterhouse Meeting PPT - please see the documents below.

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 we hope you enjoyed during our class assembly accompanied by glockenspiels.

We are looking forward to see what next term brings!