Lower Key Stage 2

Assistant Headteacher LKS2

Cidalia Fraga

Year 3

Spring Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025

The latest Year 3 Learning Update!

In English, we will be moving on from our key text ‘Friend or Foe’ to focus on persuasive writing. We will be linking this to Winston Churchill speeches during WW2 and focusing on the use and intent of modal verbs.

In maths, we are beginning to explore length and perimeter with an initial focus on meters, centimeters and millimeters. We will be comparing and converting these units of  measure with lots of practical activities.
After some riveting discoveries whilst writing gour biographies on key scientist, Willam Gilbert, we will be investing metals and magnetism and making our own temporary magnets. We will also be discovering the difference in materials of coins from WW2 and now through magnetism.
In Humanities, year 3 is continuing to explore maps and how rivers and mountains are shown using colour gradients. In line with our english unit, we will be exploring Winston Churchill speeches and the use of propaganda posters.
As part of our D.T bridges unit, year 3 will be exploring pneumatic devices and visiting tower bridge to explore its architecture as well as coding a moving bridge in the workshop, before designing their own.

Year 4

Spring Term Knowledge Organiser – 2024-2025

The latest Year 4 Learning Update!

In English we will start to write play scripts based on Paddington.  Children will learn about the features and then become play writes themselves. 

In Maths, we will continue to multiply and divide by ten and one hundred. We will then move on to more formal methods in the upcoming weeks. 

In Science, we will create circuits, looking at what type of power is needed to live our lives and becoming experts on electricity! 

In Art, we will explore our key artist David Hockney. We will mix primary colours to create a colour wheel. We will look at vibrant landscapes and begin to create our own Hockney inspired canvases.

In Humanities, we will delve into the study of hemispheres and the comprehension of longitude and latitude.

The year 4 team would like to remind you that swimming is continuing on for the remainder of the academic year. This is compulsory for all students as it is part of the national curriculum. As always, please ensure that your child brings their full swimming kit, including a towel and a swimming hat. As the children will be walking to and from the swimming pool, they will need to have a warm, waterproof jacket in case of bad weather.