Lower Key Stage Two
Lower Key Stage Two includes Year Three and Year Four children.
Our Lower Key Stage Two team includes Mrs Maye and Mrs Kemlo, Mr Green and Mrs Baker and Mr Hicklin, the class teachers. They are supported by Mrs Dobson, Miss Coachafer, Mrs Brooks, Mrs Cottam and Mrs Firth our Teaching Assistants.
Year Three and Four is about developing the children’s independence in learning and particularly their ability to use their basic skills to access and develop learning for themselves. Strong links across the curriculum ensure children develop both their understanding of and appreciation for their widening world. Regular reading at home and learning of spellings and tables is still encouraged but homework is becoming more formal with Literacy and Numeracy tasks linked to class learning as well. The learning in this phase reflect the children’s widening interest in the larger world with topics.
Year 3 Greenhouses - after learning about properties of greenhouses, making a ‘butt joint’ and designing, it was finally time to build our own mini greenhouses.
Year 3: Frictional forces investigation - testing the force needed to pull a shoe on different surfaces.
Year 3 - Stop motion animation. Ellie, Bella, Csenge, Olivia
We have been learning about how to create stop-motion animation using the iMotion app. We used 'onion skinning' to help us to create these awesome movies.
Arthur and Thomas
Lennie and Elijah
Amelia, Hope and Harry
Leo and George
Dominic and William
Eby, Sophia and Elsie
Aurora, Paryss and Violet
Ore, Grace and Freya
Year 3
Compassion and reading
As part of our class worship, we were asked as a class to do something to collectively show kindness to others. We came up with lots of ideas - a kindness jar, litter picking, holding open doors. We decided that we were going to start reading buddies. Children who wanted some help with their reading were paired up with a reading buddy to listen to them read. It was wonderful to see the children sharing books together and we are definitely going to continue this each week. 
Year 3 Science
Animal Nutrition and the Skeletal System
As part of our science learning, Year 3 learnt some of the scientific names of parts of our skeleton. These included our cranium, sternum, ribcage, spine, pelvis, humerus, radius and ulna, femur, patella, tibia and fibula!
We have practised these in lots of different ways - one way was to stick the names onto where the skeleton parts would be in our bodies! 
Year 3
Design and Technology
As part of our Eat Well, Live Well topic, we have spent some time preparing food and cooking! First, we safely peeled and chopped potatoes to cook using various cooking methods.
In our second lesson, we each brought in our own vegetable to prepare to create a 'pot luck soup'.
Great Athletes Fundraising Day
We welcomed Olympic athletes Joel Fearon and Joe Roebuck to school for our Great Athletes Day. The children were set the task of fundraising and were put through their paces in a quick-fire circuit session by the athletes.
Jorvik Visit
As part of our Invasion topic, we visited York and the Jorvik Centre. During our visit, we were transported through York as it was in the 9th century.
After that, we embarked on a walking tour of the city where we saw examples of buildings from the Romans through to the modern day.