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.

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!