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Layton Class

Year 3 and year 4 enjoy learning in  Layton Class.  The class teacher is Miss Walsh.

Autumn 2026

Look out for updates from the start of our new school year, coming soon!

Spring 2026

Another busy and lovely term in Layton Class!

Beauty and the Beast

We started of the term with a fantastic performance of Beauty and the Beast. This has been a real highlight of the year for the children, with them still talking about it now! We took inspiration from the performance and during our explanation text unit and explained how a beast can turn into a prince!

Pinocchio

We have also been lucky enough to have a West End performer come and teach the children a performance piece based on the story of Pinocchio. We then used this as inspiration to write some instructions for how to escape a whale!

Collaborative learning with Bysouth Class

During our instruction unit we also wrote our own instructions for children in Bysouth to follow. The instructions varied from how to draw an easter bunny, how to play basketball, how to break dance and more!

Reading

We have continued to foster the love of reading in Layton class and this has included a wonderful world book day and a visit from an author!

Plants

In science our topic was plants and we were able to use our new microscopes to explore the xylem of a celery plant!

We also ended the term with some wonderful home learning based on our topic of plants!

Design Technology

We have continued to sew our own bags and are very close to the finishing products!

Bikeability

We showed lots of resilience and aspiration during Bikeability.

Easter

We had lots of fun decorating our Easter bonnets for the competition and hunting for the eggs the Easter Bunny delivered for us!

Summer 2026

Caythorpe

Probably the highlight of our year … PGL – Caythorpe! The children showed incredible resilience and aspiration by taking on extreme challenges, showed respect to each other and the adults supporting them (there were many comments from the staff at PGL on how incredibly well-behaved Reed First children were!) and showed independence by staying away from home!

We had such a great time!

 

Electricity!

We thoroughly enjoyed our science unit on electricity, which included creating our own electrical circuits and handmade switches!

Maypole

As per tradition, we took part in the annual maypole dancing workshop which involved lots of team work and coordination to create some lovely patterns around the maypole whilst staying in time with the music.

 

Junior medics

We were very lucky to take part in some first aid skills training where we learnt what to do in the case of a burn, cut and other minor injuries, as well as how to keep ourselves safe and call for help if ever needed!

Visitors

We warmly welcomed multiple visitors to our school in the summer term, including the folk music duo Megson and the author of Billy Bunny, Marion Zielentino.

Community safety

We grouped together with other local small schools to host a visit from the police, fire service, the mental health nurses and wellbeing team and a local farmer. They spoke to us about how to stay safe particularly in the rural area most of us live in. It was also a chance for the Year 4’s to meet some other children going to the same middle school as us.

Summer Performance!

We loved taking centre stage for our summer whole school production of Sir David Hattenscarf and the Wonders of the world.   We had a LOT of lines to learn but did a great job and really enjoyed ourselves!

Community teaparty

We worked as a team to plan and organise our annual tea party for members of the village community.  Our guests enjoyed their visit and we enjoyed hosting them.  This included writing to them to invite them, planning our menus, cooking serving, chatting and giving them a tour of our wonderful school!

 

 

Finally, we had to say farewell to our Year 4 friends as they moved on to middle school.  Good luck, we’ll miss you all and we can’t wait for you to come to visit us soon!