Class teachers - Mrs Wildman and Mrs McGuire

Teaching Assistants - Mrs Richards

Welcome to Juniper Class!

Happy New Year! Welcome back to a busy Spring Term. This term our topic is Geography based called 'Where on Earth are we?' We will be focusing on countries, capital cities, rivers and mountains and famous landmarks in Europe, map work, grid references and different climates in different countries.

Forest school will be six sessions over this academic year so we can really focus on the seasons in addition to all the other exciting skills that the children learn in forest school. This term Forest School will take place on Wednesday 22nd January, 12th February and 19th March.  Please can the children in Juniper class, come to school in their forest school clothes and bring their CR uniform in a separate bag on these days? Juniper class will also take part in a Multi-Sports Festival at Lincroft Academy on Thursday 13th March 2025.

This term, PE lessons will take place on Wednesday (Dodgeball) and Thursday (Gymnastics).  Please make sure the children have their indoor PE kit.  All P.E kit is to stay in school and all items must be named. All long hair is to be tied back and if your child wears earrings, these will need to be taken out or covered with tape.

We would love it if you could listen to your child read at least 5 times a week and record it in their reading record book.  Spellings will be given out on a Friday and tested the following Friday.

We will be practising times tables every day but extra practice at home will really help your child to progress.  Children are expected to learn their times tables on TTR for 20 minutes per week as compulsory homework.

Creative curriculum homework is linked to our topic - please see the link below.

In the Spring and Summer Term, children will also be expected to complete Maths' homework which will focus on the written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This will be set on Thursdays and the children will complete and hand it in the following Thursday which will be marked with the class.

Below you will see the Year 3 and 4 end of year expectations, creative curriculum homework, along with the lists of words children are expected to be able to read and spell by the end of the year.