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Layton Class

Year 3 and year 4 make up Layton Class.  The class teacher is Miss Walsh.

Autumn 2025

What a fantastic first term!

We started of the year with our stone age, bone age topic!  We enjoyed creating our very own cave painting collages through drawing and printing.

We then moved onto our topic of mountains in geography.  We learnt what a mountain is and where they can be found.

We enjoyed using maps, atlases and the Chromebooks to research some of the world’s tallest mountains.

We took part in a BUPA coding day, where we spent the afternoon coding the bee-bots to reach healthy food and go around unhealthy choices.  We had to work in teams to make sure the bee-bots travelled where we intended them to!

In science we had great fun learning about forces through practical activities!

We’ve spent lots of time outside during our forest school sessions learning how to take care of the vegetable patch and researching local animals and plants.

As part of our physical education this term, we have been working on our balance and core strength in partner gymnastics work.  We are really pleased with the progress we have made.

We did a great job participating in the school librarians’ reading challenge, which was to read in unusual places!  We love reading so we were happy to take part!

We ended the term with lots of festive fun including decorating day and performing at St Mary’s Church, Reed.

Summer 2025

The summer term is always a busy one.  We have been focusing on geography and using our knowledge to make our own working models of rivers.

We have also welcomed members of the local community to a tea party which we planned ourselves.  We wrote invitations and posted them.

We also planned our tea; including using our mathematical knowledge to adapt recipes to make sure we had enough food.  We designed our own cakes, sandwiches and other treats to impress our guests.

At the party, we also sang two of our songs from our summer show – ‘The Bee Musical’.

We have been thrilled to receive thank you letters from our guests after the event and Year 3 are looking forward to planning the community tea party for 2026 next year!

Another community event saw us welcome local wellbeing nurses, police, fire and rescue and a local farmer to help us know how to keep safe while we are out and about as our independence grows.   We were pleased to welcome local schools to join us here too.  We wrote more letters to thank the speakers for their time.

Sporting events have included cross country and rounders.

We have also enjoyed a campout and a trip to the zoo.

Never a dull moment in Layton Class!

We have ended our year with our final celebrations and have given fond farewells to our Year 4s.  Good luck at Middle School!

Summer 2024- Kingswood

We loved our residential trip away to Kingswood in Norfolk. We took part in some really fun (and sometimes nerve-wracking) activities such as archery, climbing, zip-wire and fire lighting. We even had time to visit the beach!