Fantastic Firs 2025-2026

Year 3 and 4

Class Teacher: Mrs Morris

Teaching Assistant and ELSA: Mrs Leggett

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Wilson

Support Assistant: Mr Thomas

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday via school newsletter

Homework will consist of the following:

• Maths CPG book activity - pages will be set each week 
• Comprehension CPG book activity - pages will be set each week 
• Times Tables Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/ 
• Spelling Shed https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

Reading

It is really important that you read with your child at least 5 times a week.

To support your child at home with their reading you could use lots of different questioning techniques. Asking your child to repeat/ summarise what they have read or picking specific events in the book to talk about will help you to understand what they have learnt. You can find lots of example questions to ask your child below.

Book banded reading books will be sent home with each child along with a reading log. Please ensure your child completes a reading review at the end of a book. Pupils should aim to read a variety of genres and text types across the year.

PE

PE will be on a Wednesday. Children should come to school in their PE kit on their PE day.

Drinks & snacks

Please ensure that your child brings a drink of water (not fruit drinks or squash) to school each day. This needs to be in a labelled bottle that we can keep in the classroom which can be accessed during the day. Please provide your child with a piece of fruit for morning break.

February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees.

Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.