Sycamore

Welcome to Sycamore's Class Page- Year 3/4

North American Art
To finish off our North American topic in the spring term, Sycamore Class studied the artist John Singer Sargent. We drew the rest of the famous portrait, focusing on our drawing skills. 

Celebration of the Passover in Holy Week

Sycamore Class had a visit from Anna, who follows the Jewish religion. She gave us a great insight into the festival of Passover. We tried Charoseth (fruit paste) and Motzah (unleavened bread)!

RE- Lent

WORLD BOOK DAY 2025 📚

To start off the second part of the Spring term and before reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, Sycamore class made objects out of junk modelling and wrote story openers building suspense!

English

Sycamore class are reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, about an extraordinary rabbit owned by a girl called Abilene. We have bought in our own precious items to inspire our own writing!

Maths

Year 4 have been learning about factor pairs in the new year. We have used counters to make arrays to find a range of factor pairs for the same number.

Christmas 2024

The children thoroughly enjoyed decorating the Christmas trees in school and Sycamore Class made their own rare indeed decoration in DT!

_{B Ware author visit!}

The children thoroughly enjoyed their visit from B Ware talking about her new book. We made our own creative ideas and adaptions with different characters and plots. This has inspired us to write our own stories!

Geometry Workshop with Mr Ede

The children thoroughly enjoyed a geometry workshop with Mr Ede, a retired maths teacher, who set up a fantastic range of puzzles for the children to solve. They all worked brilliantly together to solve each one!

Autumn 1- The Vikings!
We have been loving our first history topic of the year. Take a look at some of our learning and amazing homework!

Maths- Place Value with ordering and comparing numbers!