Primary 3/4 CK
Welcome to Mrs Kennedy's P3/4 Class!
Numeracy - September - December 2025
Mathematics & Numeracy – During Term 1
Number
Revise 100 square – explore and sequence numbers to 100 and extend up to 500, read & write any number up to 100, extending up to 500 and be secure with the terms before/ after/ between.
Revise odd/even numbers up to 100
Add/ subtract ten, a multiple of 10 to any number using a 100 grid and explain the number pattern.
Continue to use knowledge of place value to develop a practical method for vertical addition of TU (with exchange)
Revise coins up to £1
Carry out shopping activities finding totals within £1.
Finding simple fractions of amounts.
Shading fractions and writing fractions using a numerator and denominator
Measures
Estimate and measure using standard measurements.
Revise days of the week and months of the year.
Revise o’clock, ½ past and ¼ past the hour.
Begin to consider a.m. and p.m.
Handling Data
Use tallying methods (i.e. bar gate convention to represent groups of 5:
Collect data in the context of a survey (e.g. a traffic survey)
Shape and Space
Revise 2D shape names and their properties
Drawing lines of symmetry on 2D shapes
Recognise and use mathematical names for 3D shapes
Mental Maths
Revise counting in steps of 1, 2, 5 & 10 from a given number within 100, extending to 200.
Know all single digit addition and subtraction facts with quick recall.
Using the language of addition and subtraction to solve calculations.
Begin to develop quick recall of multiplication and division facts for 2,5,10
World Around Us - September - December 2025
This term our topic is ‘The Great Fire of London’
- Locate London on a map.
- Compare and contrast London in 1666 and now.
- Sequence the events of the Great Fire of London
- Place events on a timeline
- Find out about Samuel PepysCompare and contrast Firefighters then and now
- Find out about the past through artefacts and objects from the past
- Investigate what a fire needs to burn.
- Make our own fire extinguisher
- Investigate how materials change through heat in science activities.
- Explore Fire Safety in the home.
- Have an opportunity to make bun, breads and desserts found in a bakery during our cookery afternoon sessions.
- STEM challenge design and build a strong bridge.
- Design and technology – design and make a moving fire engine out of junk materials.
Literacy - September - December 2025
Language & Literacy – During Term 1
Talking & Listening
· Listen to and follow instructions accurately.
· Speak clearly and audibly with confidence to a range of audiences.
Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)
· Engage in guided and shared reading sessions using both fiction & non-fiction texts.
· Participate in Accelerated Reading daily in class
· Recognising and reading high frequency words quickly in context.
· Developing phrasing and fluency
· Develop our literal reading comprehension skills.
Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)
Sentence Construction & Punctuation:
Grammatical Awareness:
Investigate the use of question marks, exclamation marks, commas and speech marks in reading and writing.
To extend their knowledge of nouns both common and proper.
Use the term “verb” correctly.
Use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking & writing: see/saw, go/went etc.
Sentence Construction and Punctuation
Revise the need to demarcate the end of a sentence with a full stop and the start of a new one with a capital/ uppercase letter.
Develop independent sentence writing.
Use commas to separate items in a list.
Develop an awareness of speech marks and begin to use them in their own writing.
Phonics & Spelling [building on & extending P3 work]:
Revise the fact that two letters can represent one sound [e.g. sh, ch, th, ng, ck, wh, qu]
Know that the same phoneme (sound) can be represented in more than one way e.g. go, grow, float, note.
Vocabulary word level
Know that the spellings of verbs alter when ing and ed are added
Know and understand what a prefix is and how they influence word meanings
Recognise and spell common prefixes, e.g. un-, de-, dis-, re-, pre-
Use the dictionary and have a secure understanding of how it is organised.
Become more aware of the vocabulary for concluding dialogue e.g said replied, asked
Handwriting:
Revise the correct formation of all lower and uppercase letters.
Begin to use the four basic handwriting joins.
Writing:
Understanding that sentences must make sense.
Writing simple sentences independently extending to longer pieces of work
Contact Details
Dungannon Primary School,
Circular Rd,
Dungannon,
County Tyrone,
BT71 6BE
T: 028 8772 2250
