Foxes' Class Spring Terms 3 and 4

Welcome to

Foxes' Class

2025-26

Class Teachers: Miss Woods and

Ms McGuinness     

Miss Woods teaches on Monday and Tuesday

Ms McGuinness on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 

For Term 3 we will be having a Geography focus:

Rivers, paying particular attention on the River Nile.

Term 4 we will be having a History focus:

Ancient Egypt.

Click here to see our Topic Web to see what we will be learning over the next two terms and the questions we would like to find the answers to for

Term 3 and Term 4. 

Bitesize has some really useful videos and texts to look at and read for our Rivers topic and for our Egyptian topic.

We will be reading a selection of Egyptian themed books and in Guided Reading we will be using 'The Secrets of the Sun God' by Emma Carroll.

London, 1922.
A discovery from ancient Egypt . . .
A cursed package . . .
The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .
When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead that very morning, according to every newspaper in England!
The mysterious package holds the key to a story . . . about a king whose tomb archaeologists are desperately hunting for.
Lil and her friends must embark on an incredible journey - to return the package to its resting place, to protect those they love, and to break the deadly pharaoh's curse . . .

Some useful information about this year:

 Your child will be having P.E. lessons on Monday in Term 3 and on Wednesday afternoons we will be having our Forest School Sessions, so please can your child wear warm and waterproof clothes - we will be outside regardless of the weather. In Term 4 we will go back to having P.E. on Monday and Wednesday.

Homework

Homework will be given out each week, alternating between Tuesdays (Miss Woods) or Wednesdays (Ms McGuinness) and handed in a week later. Homework will be either Topic, Maths or Literacy.  It could be paper based or using Purple Mash, which will be set as a 'To Do' on your child's Purple Mash account.

 Click below for the homework timetables for each term as a reminder of when and who is giving out the homework each week:

Term 1; Term 2; Term 3; Term 4; Term 5 and Term 6.

Spelling rules will be practised at school.  There will be an 'informal' test on Friday.  Here is the Year 3 overview and the Year 4 overview we will be using for the year. 

Term 3: Year 3 spellings and rules and

Term 3: Year 4 spellings and rules.

Times Tables will be practised throughout the week and tested on Fridays.  We will go through these tables, in this order:

x2  x5  x10  x3  x6  x4  x8  x7  x9  x11  x12

If your child doesn't achieve full marks 13/13, then they will have the opportunity the following week to have another go.  We would rather them be secure in a table, before proceeding to the next one. When they are secure in all of their times tables, they will proceed to the Division Challenge and then Fraction and Decimal Challenges.

Doodle Maths: Your child has a subscription to Doodle Maths and we recommend that they spend 10 minutes a day using Doodle Maths to develop their numeracy skills. 

Home School Books: Your child will be given a home-school book at the start of Term 1, Term 3 and Term 5.  They will be expected to bring these books into school everyday.   Please can your child record what they have read during the week and if an adult can sign it so that they can earn points, which will go towards reading certificates and a chance to choose a new book when they have read 100 times at home. There is also a section for them to practise their multiplication tables.

Maths Frame is a fantastic free resource to help learn and practise your multiplication tables.

Hero of the Week

Your children have been asked to think about a hero: dead, alive, known personally, do not know personally, who they admire and respect. We would like them to talk to the class about this person for a couple of minutes - they can use a Powerpoint, photographs, objects to assist them with this.  Confidence in speaking out loud to an audience is something we like to develop in our children.

Here is the rota (initials only) for the year.

***SPECIAL REMINDERS***

Please can you ensure that all clothes and equipment are named or labelled.  

Additional activities:

• Books for Topics have amazing links to free readings of lots of really popular books. 
• The Book Trust have some amazing activities available, including authors reading their books allowed and illustrators teaching you how to draw.
• NRICH has lots of interesting Maths activities and challenges, as does I see Maths.