Puffin - Y3/4

Welcome to Puffin!

Welcome to Puffin 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!

Mr Iestyn Phillips, Puffin Teacher

Mrs Sara Clifford, Teaching Assistant

Miss Tabitha Anderson, Teaching Assistant

Our teacher is Mr Phillips and our teaching assistants are: Sara,  and Miss Anderson. 

If you have any questions, you can email Mr Phillips at fpspuffin@palladianacademytrust.com

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

Term 6

In term six, we will be reading ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.’  This text will be used as a basis for our reading and writing in English. Our end goal will be to write a fantasy text about what happens to Charlie after he enters the Great glass elevator! Our main topic this term is all about healthy eating and different foods! We will be learning about where our food comes from, why healthy lifestyles are important in science and designing /making healthy snack bars with no added sugar! A challenge for all.  

Term 5

What a busy and exciting term we have had in year 3 / 4! We have learnt all about the rainforest, the animals that live there and the ethical questions surrounding topics such as deforestation. This term, we have been ‘Up in the Canopy’, this text has been used to support us in writing our own explanation text all about the layers of the rainforest. At the end of term 5 we shared our artwork with the rest of the school in a fabulous finisher Art exhibition in the school hall! The children are immensely proud of their compositions. This term, year 4 have also been away for 3 day residential at Charter House! We had a lot of fun trying out archery, low ropes and orienteering, as well as a lot of walking (but not so much sleeping)!

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.

Charterhouse meeting to parents 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 was performed by Doves class to their parents in assembly accompanied by glockenspiels.

We are looking forward to see what next term brings!

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