The staff in Year 3/4 this year are Mr. Soulsby and Miss Somers.
If your child is self-isolating and needs to access their learning from home, please find below the links to their lessons this week. These lessons follow closely with what your child would be learning this week in class.
School Closure Reading and Phonics Support
Please click here to view our Reading and Phonics page, which will provide information and support on how you can help your child continue to practise their reading skills during this period of closure. To access Accelerated Reader click here.
We have free access to ebooks on the Oxford Owl website. Please go to: http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and click ‘Login’ under ‘Oxford Owl for School’. Then type in your class username and login. Your class teacher will provide you with these on Seesaw. Most of the ebooks have an Accelerated Reader quiz that the children can do after they have finished reading.
Reading for Pleasure
The document below includes weblinks and qr codes which will take you to videos of popular stories being read out loud. You can listen to these as part of your home learning or enjoy them as bedtime stories!
Week beginning 8th March
Hi Class 6. I hope you have had a good first week back after half term. You are all missed in school but we will be back soon. 👍
Here is this week’s work. I can’t wait to see it on Seesaw. But remember if you finish it quickly there are lots of tasks and activities that you could be doing.
Visit Times Table Rockstars to hone your skills.
Read a book, search for the quiz number, then complete the quiz here.
Practise your handwriting, so that when you return, your handwriting will be beautiful.
Handwriting practice a – z.
Maths
Monday – Monday – equivalent https://vimeo.com/504289061
Tuesday – Tuesday – equivalent https://vimeo.com/504316253
Wednesday –Wed – equivalent
https://vimeo.com/504472462
Thursday – Thursday – equivalent https://vimeo.com/504801539
Friday – Friday – A
English
Read Chapter 1 and 2. Chap 1-2
Monday – Monday – reading quiz
Tuesday – Tuesday- extended writing
Wednesday – Wednesday – fronted adverbials
Thursday – Thursday- fronted adverbials
Friday – Friday – extended writing
Foundation
Monday – Cloudbusting Live @13:30
Tuesday – Matisse Live @ 10:30 Matisse – web
Wednesday – Hinduism – Why is Ganesh important? Ganesh
Thursday – Science @ 10:30 – What Plants Need Science Recording sheets
Good luck everyone.
Mr Soulsby, Miss Somers and Mrs Hendry
Week beginning 22nd February
Hi Class 6. I hope you all had a restful and safe half term. I’m missing you all lots but we’ll be back together in class soon. 🤞❤
Here is this week’s work. I can’t wait to see it on Seesaw. But remember if you finish it quickly there are lots of tasks and activities that you could be doing.
Visit Times Table Rockstars to hone your skills.
Read a book, search for the quiz number, then complete the quiz here.
Practise your handwriting, so that when you return, your handwriting will be beautiful.
Handwriting practice a – z.
Maths
Monday – Monday – Unit Fractions
https://vimeo.com/502315136
Monday – challenge
Tuesday – Tuesday – What is a fraction
https://vimeo.com/502527306
Tues – challenge
Wednesday – Wednesday – tenths
https://vimeo.com/502315833
Wed – challenge
Thursday – Thursday – Count in tenths
https://vimeo.com/502686139
Thurs – challenge
Friday – Friday – A
English
Monday – reading quiz
Foundation
Monday – Cloudbusting Live@13:30
Tuesday – RE – Hindu Deities Live@10:30
Wednesday – Art – Mondrian
Thursday – Science – parts of a plant
Science plants task Live@10:30
Week beginning 8th February
Hi Class 6. Can you believe we have reached the final week of the first half term? I haven’t seen some of you since last year! Please stay safe.
I was very impressed with your contributions in the live lesson this week – it was impressive…most impressive. Thank you so much. Next week, we 3 live events so I hope to see as many of you as possible.
If any of you finish the learning set quicker than expected, that’s great but there are a number of things you could still do.
Visit Times Table Rockstars to hone your skills.
Read a book, search for the quiz number, then complete the quiz here.
Practise your handwriting, so that when you return, your handwriting will be beautiful.
Handwriting practice a – z.
Have a good week everyone.
Mr Soulsby, Miss Somers and Mrs Hendry. xxx
Maths
This week, I have added some extension tasks. You only need to try these if you are confident with the main task.
Monday – Monday – what is area https://vimeo.com/499229510
Extension- Monday
Tuesday – Tuesday – counting squares https://vimeo.com/500381471
Extension – Tuesday
Wednesday – Wednesday – making shapes https://vimeo.com/500864228
Extension – Wednesday
Thursday – Thursday – compare areahttps://vimeo.com/501678823
Extension – Thursday
Friday – Friday arithmetic A
English
This week, you need to read the final 2 pages. p12-13
Monday – Monday – reading quiz
Tuesday – Tuesday – vocabulary
Wednesday – Wednesday – Past tense
Thursday – Thursday – planning
Friday – Friday – extended writing
Foundation
Monday – Cloudbusting Live @ 1:30pm
Tuesday – Safer Internet Day Live @ 10:30am Safer Internet Day
Wednesday – Hail Caesar
Thursday – Science Live @ 10:30am Science comic strip
Good luck. 👍👍
Week beginning 1st February
Hi Class 6. Thank you so much and well done for your comments during our live lesson. I loved reading them and being able to respond and interact even though it was remotely.
Good luck with your learning this week and remember to look for my bitmoji face if you are collecting a learning pack from school.
Mr Soulsby, Miss Somers and Mrs Hendry.
Maths
Monday – Monday – Measure-perimeter https://vimeo.com/470181789
Tuesday – Tuesday – calculate perimeter Use yesterday’s video to help this task.
Wednesday – Wednesday – perimeter on a grid https://vimeo.com/470182402
Thursday – Thursday – perimeter of rectangles https://vimeo.com/470606504
Friday – Friday arithmetic A
English
This week you will need to read p10 and 11.
Romulus and Remus p10-11
Monday – Monday – reading quiz
Tuesday – Tuesday – fronted adverbials
Wednesday – Wednesday – fronted Adverbials
Thursday – Thurday -nouns and pronouns
Friday – Friday – extended writing Friday prompt sheet Use this sheet to give you some ideas in writing the conversation between Rhea and Mars.
Foundation
Monday – Erosion and Deposition
Tuesday – Roman Slaves
Roman Slave diary blank
Roman slave diary template
Wednesday – Deforestation
Thursday – Science Live @ 10:30
The Water Cycle
Make a Model Water Cycle
Some of you had asked about handwriting practice so I have included the handwriting sheets that we have completed already.
Handwriting practice a – z
Good luck. 👍
Week beginning 25th January
Hi Class 6.
Thank you so much to everyone uploading their learning onto Seesaw – I love seeing what you have completed and it was brilliant to see some experiments on Seesaw too. 🤗🤩
Good luck with your learning this week – if you pick up a pack from school it will have this cover – 😁
Hopefully, we can continue the live lesson this week – 🤞
Maths
Monday – Monday m and cm https://vimeo.com/467395292
Tuesday – Tuesday mm and cm https://vimeo.com/467395290
Wednesday – Wednesday add lengths https://vimeo.com/468942122
Thursday – Thursday subtract lengths https://vimeo.com/469688534
Friday – Friday Arithmetic -B
English
Read the next four pages of the story of Romulus and Remus
Romulus and Remus p6-9
Monday – Reading Inference – Monday
Tuesday – Inverted Commas – Tuesday
Wednesday – Inverted Commas – Wednesday
Thursday – Setting description – Thursday
Friday – Extended writing – Friday
Foundation
Monday – Dams
Tuesday – Roman Cuisine
Wednesday – Biodiversity
Thursday – Live🤞 Wonderful Water
Good luck everyone
Mr Soulsby, Miss Somers and Mrs Hendry.
Week beginning 18th January
Hi Class 6.
It was so good to read your comments on our live lesson. Join me again on Thursday at 10 o’clock for some investigative science – 🥵🥶🧪💻
Keep being awesome please.
Mr Soulsby and Miss Somers ❤
Maths
Mon divide 2 by 1 https://vimeo.com/489844871
Tuesday divide 2 by 1 https://vimeo.com/489845622
Wednesday divide 2 by 1 https://vimeo.com/497573248
Thursday divide 2 by 1 https://vimeo.com/494126561
I loved that some of you tried both of the arithmetic. Remember A would be the harder of the two.
Friday arithmetic A
Friday arithmetic B
English text – Romulus and Remus p1-6
Reading Comprehension – Monday
Fronted adverbials – Tuesday
Fronted adverbials – Wednesday
Plurals and possession – Thursday
Imaginative writing – Friday
Monday –River uses
Tuesday – Roman meds
Wednesday – PSHCE – Be Better and do more.
Thursday – LIVE – Science investigation
Good luck everyone.
Hi Class 6.
It has been brilliant to see the effort you are putting into your learning – I love seeing it on Seesaw so please keep this up.
You are all very much missed in class – it’s not the same but keep on keeping on. 👍😎 Here is the week’s learning – good luck.
Mr Soulsby and Miss Somers
Week beginning 11th January
Maths
Monday 2 x 1
https://vimeo.com/486513593
Tuesday 2 x 1
https://vimeo.com/489850121
Wed 2 x 1
https://vimeo.com/492463370
Thursday 3 x 1
https://vimeo.com/492456871
You can decide which arithmetic you would like to do.
A could be considered the harder of the two.
English
English 1 – prepositional phrases
English 4 – Descriptive writing
Science
Investigating gases learning
Geography
Life of a river
History
Roman tools
PSHCE
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reduce-reuse-recycle-crt38c
Week beginning 4th January 2021
English
Maths
Monday – https://vimeo.com/485432791
Mon 2, 4, 8s
Tuesday – https://vimeo.com/491109801
Tues 4 x 3 numbers
Wednesday – https://vimeo.com/491282075
Wed factor pairs
Thursday – https://vimeo.com/492101020
Thurs efficient multiplication
Friday – https://vimeo.com/491687378
Fri Written methods
Science –States of matter – sort
History – Roman roads
Pshce – https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/h20-6dgk6t
Geography – Geog 1
Week beginning 16th November
Maths
Monday – https://vimeo.com/469786596
Monday
Tuesday – https://vimeo.com/469787855
Tues
Wednesday – https://vimeo.com/469788481
Wed
Thursday – https://vimeo.com/469788481
Thursday
Friday – https://vimeo.com/469787342
Friday
English
Monday – https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-engage-with-a-text-69k3ad
Tuesday – https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-read-and-answer-questions-on-a-text-part-1-6mvkjd
Wednesday – https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-read-and-answer-questions-on-a-text-part-2-6wv68c
Thursday – https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-read-and-answer-questions-on-a-text-part-3-65hk6c
Science – https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-are-magnets-cgvkee
PSHCE – Anti Bullying BookletAnti-bullying
Geography – The shape of rivers
Music – Pulse
Week Beginning 9th November
Maths
Monday
Three from three
Tuesday –
Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO6-Subtract-two-4-digit-numbers-one-exchange-2019 (1)
Wednesday –
Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO7-Subtract-two-4-digit-numbers-more-than-one-exchange-2019
Thursday –
Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO8-Efficient-subtraction-2019
Friday –
Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO10-Checking-strategies-2019
English
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-complex-sentences-68wp8c
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-answer-questions-on-the-text-part-1-cru68t
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-analyse-characters-c8w3jt
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-answer-questions-on-the-text-part-2-crv66c
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-analyse-the-authors-use-of-language-cnj3cr
Science – Pushes and Pulls
Geography – Glorious Wales!
History – Artefacts – tell me more!
PSHCE – Help.
Maths
Monday 5th October – https://vimeo.com/459318816
Monday
Tuesday 6th October – https://vimeo.com/459319169
Tuesday
Wednesday 7th October – https://vimeo.com/461778453
Wednesday
Thursday 8th October – https://vimeo.com/461778690
Thurday
Friday 9th October
Friday
English
Monday 5th October – Noun Phrases
Tuesday 6th October – Fronted adverbials
Wednesday 7th October – Analyse a character
Thursday 8th October – Explore the main themes.
Friday 9th October – Explore genre.
Science
Dem Bones!
Geography
Bonny Scotland!
History
Visit the animals in Bedrock!
PSHCE
We are a Jigsaw.
2019-2020
HOME LEARNING
…And just like that, it’s the final week of Summer Term!😲
Hi Class 7!
I cannot believe that it is our final week of this school year. It seems like only yesterday that we were reading George’s Marvellous Medicine and sharing our hopes and goals for our time together in Class 7!
I want you all to know that it has been my absolute privilege and pleasure to teach you this year- whenever I told you that you were amazing and that I was proud, I truly meant it! You are all fantastic just the way you are!🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍
This year has been an unusual one. You have experienced things that no-one ever has before and have learned how to learn in a brand new way. I want you to know how proud I am of how you have all adapted to this, continued to learn and, most importantly, continued to smile! I have missed you all terribly over the past few months but being able to communicate with each other on Seesaw has given us some sense of normality and routine and made me smile every day! 😊🌈
I cannot wait to see you all when you return to school in September! I am looking forward to catching up with each and every one of you. You will be finding out this week who your new teacher will be- whoever it is, they are a very, very lucky person! Don’t worry- I will tell them how much you enjoy listening to cheese jokes and extra homework (only joking!😂)
As always, complete whatever home learning you can this week but also take some time to think about this year and all of the things you have achieved in school and during your time at home. From learning about the Stone Age, to learning how to use Seesaw, to learning a new life skill such as baking or gardening, you have accomplished so much this year.
Don’t forget to complete your portraits and send them through Seesaw or the school email address. 💙
Sending you all lots of love and virtual hugs,
Mrs. Coxon 🥰💜🌈
Year 3 Activities- Week beginning 13th July
There are no new home learning activities published on the Oak National Academy for this week. Instead, I would like you to take this time to complete any previous home learning activities that you have not yet finished.
The online classroom to access previous activities for each day can be found by clicking here.
Year 4 Activities- Week beginning 13th July
There are no new home learning activities published on the Oak National Academy for this week. Instead, I would like you to take this time to complete any previous home learning activities that you have not yet finished.
The online classroom to access activities for each day can be found by clicking here.
School Closure Reading and Phonics Support
Please click here to view our Reading and Phonics page, which will provide information and support on how you can help your child continue to practise their reading skills during this period of closure.
Virtual Tours and Trips
Since we cannot take you on any educational visits to explore and deepen your understanding of the world at the moment, let us bring some new and interesting places to you! Below you will find links to a range of interesting national and global places that you can explore without leaving your home. Enjoy!
Virtual Tour Day at Chester Zoo
Useful websites to support with home learning
play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
play.numbots.com/#/account/search-school (children can log into Numbots using their TTRockstars login details)
Durham Music Service Resources for Year 3
Durham Music Service Resources for Year 4
PE with Joe Wicks (Mon-Fri 9.00am)
David Walliams Elevenses (Daily at 11am)
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years
Welcome to Year 3/4
Mrs Coxon
I am thrilled to be one of the class teachers in Class 7 this year and am I also the Deputy Headteacher.
I have been teaching since 2005 and have worked in a number of schools in South Tyneside and Durham, teaching across the full primary age range. I have taught in schools in Bishop Auckland since 2015 and joined Etherley Lane Primary School in February 2019 as the Teaching and Learning Lead before becoming the Deputy Headteacher in September 2019. I am extremely proud to be part of the team here at Etherley Lane.
My passion and drive for teaching stems from wanting to ensure the very best for each and every child that I am fortunate enough to teach. Working with children every day is a privilege and being an important part of a child’s journey through education, supporting them and seeing them flourish, fills me with pride.
Outside of school, you can often find me walking along the seafront in South Shields, my hometown. I am lucky to live so close to the beach and enjoy spending time there, especially in the summer! I also enjoy exploring new places, finding about their history and experiencing different cultures. However, my favourite part of visiting new places is trying all of the different kinds of food!
Miss Giblin
Hello, my name is Miss Giblin and I absolutely love my job! I studied Primary Education at Sunderland University and started working at Etherley Lane in February 2019- the pupils, staff and parents made me feel so at home straight away!
My passion is drama, so it is not surprising that I run drama club on a Monday night, as well as offering a drama option during privilege time. I also love teaching Music as I get to watch the children express themselves in their own individual way. I believe everyone is born with their own special talents and I count myself lucky that I get to help our children discover and nurture their hidden gifts! In my spare time I enjoy reading and going to the gym.
Our Curriculum
Please visit the curriculum section of the website to find out more about the Y3/4 curriculum.
Please select the links below to view further information
Class News
2019/20
2018/19
2019/20
In Maths we have been learning our times tables.
In English we read George’s Marvelous Medicine and made our own medicine.
In Science we have been learning about rocks and soils and made compost.
We have also been learning about forces and magnets.
We performed drama activities for Safer Internet Day.
In Geography we have been learning to read maps. We followed the journey of the River Tyne from it’s source to mouth.
In History we have been learning about the Stone Age and making Stone Age Homes.
In Design Technology we built a Mesolithic home.
We also made Iron Age Stew
In PE we got to try Hula Hooping, Judo and Year 4 attended a Tag Rugby Festival.
Hula Hooping
Tag Rugby
Judo
In PSHCE we raised money to support the Bahamas, with a Pyjamas for the Behamas Day we also entered a climate change competition and held our own climate change protest in school.
Climate Change Protest
Pyjamas for the Bahamas
Maths Tutorials
2018/19
We visited Rainton Meadows.
We enjoyed pond dipping in Joe’s Pond.
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- Creating 3D shapes
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- English Role Play Work
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- We are all characters in the Boudicca story.
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- Data handling using smarties
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- Romans Project Work
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- Roman snake bracelets
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- Roman soldier application letters
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- Creating animations using Scratch
