Year 3 and 4

At Wilton Primary Academy, we value each child as an individual with a unique potential for learning. We believe that childhood should be a happy, investigative and enquiring time in our lives, where there are no limits to curiosity and there is a thirst for new experiences and knowledge. The Y3/4 staff are Miss Norton and Miss Cook.

Please see the information below which provides you with an overview of the curriculum for the Y3/4 class for the 2024/25 academic year. We regularly feature the learning activities from each class on our weekly blog, so please have a look at this and the academy gallery, together with posts on our social media. Links to all of these pages can be found under the Celebrating Wilton tab.

This half term the children have completed their narrative based on the fairytale of Cinderella. The children have started using word classes to improve their description of the setting and characters and they have also begun by learning to use fronted adverbials to enhance the cohesion and flow of their writing. We have recently started writing a set of instructions The children were asked to instruct how the Big Bad Wolf can get to grandma’s house.

In reading, we finished reading a narrative and began our new block of instructions, we are currently reading the instructions to make a gingerbread house, like that of Hansel and Gretel. The children have sketched images to support their reading and understanding of the language that they have read.

In science, we have continued to learn about a healthy diet and how having this supports our muscles, joints and bones. The children have also begun by learning some of the names of the bones in the human body. Further to this, we have started sorting animals in groups according to their skeletons.

The children have also continued learning to play the recorder and have now progressed onto the A and B notes and are beginning to sound fabulous – especially when we have the air holes covered!

In geography, we have begun by naming the continents, naming the countries in the United Kingdom, the capital cities and began by learning some of the counties too. We have also explored where some of the famous landmarks are in England and beyond too.

• Y3/4 Curriculum Subjects Overview 2024.25 Download