Mrs Read and Mrs Parsons
The Hummingbirds team is made up of Mrs Read (Monday- Thursday) and Mrs Parsons who teaches on a Friday. The wonderful Mrs Akenbrook and Miss Lipina also work in our class to help us with our learning. In Hummingbirds, we love to learn and have lots of fun while we’re at it! We work hard in all of our endeavours and take pride in our achievements, working with each other in a kind, caring and collaborative manner. We uphold all our school values and are proud to demonstrate these as we are the role models to others across the school.
Mrs Parsons
In Hummingbird Class we explore spelling rules and patterns each week. These help us to become independent spellers and to produce writing of a higher quality.
We have a times table focus to develop our fluency of the multiplication facts up to the 12 times table in preparation for the times table check in Year 4. We learn each times table in order, out of order and then the matching division facts to help us develop a strong understanding of these mathematical facts.
Reading is another key skill and we aim to read every day. We really enjoy echo reading as a class, where the teacher reads a sentence and then we read it back. It really helps us to hear how the teacher uses her voice in different sentences and we like discussing interesting words and phrases too. We regularly have whole class reading and enjoy studying a book together, discussing new vocabulary we come across.
In Hummingbird Class we continue to develop our understanding of the 5 R’s – Resilience, Reasoning, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Reflectiveness - and how they help us to use the power of a growth mindset. We know that mistakes help us to learn and we use resilience to overcome challenges. We try to be resourceful learners, using what we know to help us solve problems as well as taking responsibility for our learning and the learning of our classmates. Most importantly, we learn that making mistakes is an essential and unavoidable step towards learning and improving ourselves. ‘Mistakes are good - make lots of them!’ is one of our class rules!
In Year 4 will be studying the impact the ancient Romans had on Britain. We will also be exploring Ancient Greece and comparing what we learn to other cultures and time periods. We will be learning about electricity in Science, exploring circuits as well as continuing to develop our knowledge of plants and animals including humans and their habitats. We are especially looking forward to our residential trip to Grafham Water where we will be having a go at lots of exciting activities on and off the water! And this year sees the return of our Young Voices trip where the children have the opportunity to sing as part of a large school choir at the O2!