Welcome to Oak Class (Y3/4)

The class teacher is Miss Dexter-Eyre.

Mrs Slack is our teaching assistant every morning. 

Our curriculum theme this term is:

CREATE!

Our enquiry question for Summer 2025 is

"How is there freedom in the arts?"

In music and art, freedom means having courage to express your own ideas, feelings and identity in creative ways. Artists and musicians use their work to share stories, celebrate diversity and stand up for their rights.

  They will be developing creative techniques during this term by sketching, drawing, experimenting and creating self portraits and clay sculptures and by studying artists such as Frida Kahlo, George Seurat, Paul Signac and Yayoi Kusama.

They will be finding out how artists in all areas of the arts have developed their skills over time and how they overcame challenges.

The children will be exploring the following:

How do artists use portraits and self-portraits to explore identify?

How can we express who we are and what makes us unique?

How do other people see you?

 How do you see yourself?

How to use marks and lines to show texture

How shading can create mood and feeling

Perspective and dimension

How to use a wide range of tools to create different effects

How to use relief and impressed painting processes

Pointillism

Listening to and responding to different genres of music eg opera, reggae

They will be creating:

Self portraits

Clay busts of themselves

English

In English the children will be looking at biographies and will also be studying "Iron Man" by Ted Hughes.

The school treasures we are focusing on this term are respect and aspiration. 

Our United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) this term is – 10: Reduced inequalities.  

Enhancement subjects

Science: In science the children will be learning about electricity and how to make simple circuits, conductors and insulators and how to use a switch. 

RE: How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jewish people?

PSHE: Growing and changing

Design and technology: Electricity posters

P.E: Tennis, cricket, rounders, athletics

MFL: Spanish

Our regular P.E. days this term will be Monday and Wednesday, and children should come to school wearing their PE kit on those days.

Educational visits this term:

26 June - Belvoir cricket and countryside day

22 July - Yorkshire Wildlife Park

There will be information, updates and photos posted on Class Dojo as well as individual messages so please check your app regularly. Please message me if you have any questions.

Miss Dexter-Eyre

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