St. Oswald's CE Primary SchoolLower Key Stage 2 (Yr 3 and 4)

Lower Key Stage 2 (Yr 3 and 4)

We would like to welcome you to the Year 3/4 team and to let you know about some of the things that you can expect to happen this year.

We have 3 home classes, who work together as a team. All of our classes at St Oswald’s are represented by an animal. In Lower Key Stage Two, our classes are represented by woodland animals!

Dormice Class
Mrs Haxby’s class		Foxes Class
Miss Hunt’s class		Rabbits Class
Mr Lloyd’s class

What have we been learning about?

Find out about last term’s learning
Find out about this term’s learning

Don’t forget about our fortnightly newsletters sent on SeeSaw, our home-school communication platform to find out all about what has been happening in our phase. Please speak to class teachers if you require a code to sign in.

Who are we?

As a phase, we work together as a team so different teachers and support staff will work in different classes throughout the school year. In addition to our phase team, we also work alongside three HLTAs (Higher Level Teaching Assistants) who teach high quality P.E., Spanish and Art lessons.

What does the school day look like in Year 3/4?

Start of day: 8:45am (doors open at 8:40am)

Entry point: Through the Lower KS2 cloakroom doors

End of day: 3:15pm

Exit point: Rabbits leave through external classroom doors. Foxes and Dormice leave through LKS2 cloakroom doors.

Morning sessions

During a morning, children engage in a wide range of core learning activities. Children will split into single year group classes throughout the morning for reading, English and maths sessions.

Collective worship

Collective worship takes place daily. The focus and gathering changes as the week progresses:

  • Monday: Whole school collective worship
  • Tuesday: Phase collective worship
  • Wednesday: Singing whole school worship
  • Thursday: Class collective worship
  • Friday: Celebration whole school worship (parent/carers are welcome to join this collective worship)

Afternoon sessions

During an afternoon session, children engage in two or more foundation subjects. Children will participate in many subject areas such as Design and Technology, Science, Geography, P.E. and more!

Each day ends with a story time together before we make our way home.

What will our topics of learning be this year?

Autumn SpringSummer
Our learning topic:Vikings
Let’s Go Eco
Incredible Journeys

Want to find out more about each topic of study? Visit our subject pages to find each curriculum area overview.

What are the homework expectations?

Planners: Every child will bring home a planner each day. Please use these to check for essential information, record

any home reading and information regarding further home learning. Planners should be brought into school each day.

Reading: Please make sure an adult puts a note in your planner each time you read at home. You can change your book as often as you need to from the bookshelves in the Y3/4 corridor. Owl stamps will be given each time you have read at least three times a week and your planner will be checked at least once a week by an adult at school.

Spellings: Spelling lists get given out at the beginning of each half term and you will have a spelling test every Monday. Each week you will record how you have got on with your spelling test in your planner.

Maths: Maths homework will be given out at the beginning of each week, on either a Monday or Tuesday, and will need to be returned to school by the following Monday.

Home Learning Projects: For each new topic, the children will be asked to create a project at home. This can be presented in whichever form they wish – PPT, model, artwork, diary entry etc. These projects will be showcased in our home Learning Gallery at the end of each topic, when parents are invited in to see the children’s work.

Some useful websites that may help you support your children with their learning are:

  • https://whiterosemaths.com/ This page is an excellent resource for helping your children with their maths learning. There are videos, activities and schemes of work for all of the units taught in school.
  • https://www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/ There are some great activities on this site to help the children with their times tables. The Year 4 children may want to try out the Multiplication Tables Check.
  • https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ Here there are endless ideas, information and activities on Phonics and reading to use at home.
  • https://www.stem.org.uk/primary-science This fabulous website has all sorts of ideas for getting your children involved with Science at home.  

Useful parent links

School Day
Last term’s Learning
Uniform
Curriculum Information
SEND
Extra Curricular Offer
General Parent Information