Welcome to Imagination Class!

Week Beginning: 5th January 2026

Happy New Year Imagination Class and welcome back to a new term.

What a busy start to the New Year. One week in already and year 3 and four have been extremely busy in their English lessons. They have started to look at a new book, ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’. Even though we have only read a few pages, the children have shown a lot of interest in the illustrations and artifacts which they have described using expanded noun phrases.  Children have been inspired to write persuasive letters to Professor Brownstone and they have had many discussions about what might be in the vault. Some think it is jewels, more interesting artifacts, or money. In Maths, the children have been looking at dividing and multiplying by 10 and 100, as we begin our topic of multiplication and division. In Science, we have started to look at our new topic of ‘Forces’. Children explored the concepts of twisting, bending, pushing and pulling. During RE, the children have started to look at the Sikhi religion, focusing on ‘Who is God to Sikhi's’. In PSHE the children have started our topic of ‘Dreams and Goals’, looking at ‘who they are and how they fit’. Children really enjoyed looking at the story of Michael Jordan, how he became an exceptional basketball player. During PE, children have started working on their fitness and hockey skills. That’s not even everything. It has proven to be an interesting start to the new year. 

Week beginning 15th September 2025

The children have felt very settled into their new classrooms, even after just two weeks. So well done for all the focussing and determination to make the right choices, year 3 and 4. In English we have started looking at a new book. A twist on the fairy tale ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. Children have been exploring the first couple of pages of text, as well as paying close attention to the detailed images, to inspire their sentence writing. In Maths, we continue with Place Value but looking at numbers up to 1000. Children have been looking at how many hundreds make one hundred and applying this knowledge to other hundred values. They are growing in confidence at reading any number up to 1000, and further. The children have been looking at different ways in which they can partition these numbers and represent them pictorially, manipulatively and written. In PSHE we have looked at what makes a good friend and a bad friend and in RE we have looked at the importance of water in the Hindu religion. For Geography, we have recapped naming continents and oceans and placed them onto a map. During PE, we continued with our themes of gymnastics and fundamental skills, through balancing on equipment, and developing skipping skills in a variety of different ways.  

Year 3 & 4 have been focusing on settling into and the expectations of their new classroom. Children have shared summer holiday experiences, 2 birthdays already and started to create new friendships. In English they have been looking at the book 'In Our Hands'. The children have had lots of discussion about the theme of the story, asked questions about the story, written predictions and created two different illustrations relating to the book. In Maths, children have started recapping Place Value, starting with tens and ones. Children have also taken part in a gymnastics and fundamental skills PE lesson, exploring how to balance and combine a sequence of body balances and focus on using those balancing skills to hop, skip, jump and balance with a skipping rope. They have shown positive attitudes towards the start of the new term and have been very keen to get stuck into their learning. Children have chosen themselves a reading book and have read this with adults during the week. Don't forget that children have also been sent home with a copy of their TT Rock Stars login details. They have been asked to access this for a minimum of 5 minutes daily, alongside their daily reading at home. This is a great time to set new routines, so building a lovely home/school routine with daily reading, spelling practice and TT Rock Stars is a perfect way to continue their learning further. A great start to Year 3 and 4, keep it up.