Foxes' Class Autumn 2025
Welcome to
Foxes' Class
2025-26
Class Teachers: Miss Woods and
Ms McGuinness
Miss Woods teaches on Monday and Tuesday
Ms McGuinness on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
For Term 1 we will be having a Geography focus:
Africa
Term 2 we will be having a History focus:
Farmborough Through the Years
Click here to see our Topic Web to see what we will be learning over the next two terms and the questions we would like to find the answers to.
Bitesize has some really useful videos and texts to look at and read.
We will be reading a selection of African and English folk tales over these terms.
Some useful information about this year:
Your child will be having P.E. lessons on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Please can your child come wearing their named P.E. kit on these days.
Swimming starts on the 15th September for the
Year 3s. Your child will be going to Paulton for these lessons. The last swimming session will be on the 8th December.
Homework
Homework will be given out each week, alternating between Tuesdays (Miss Woods) or Wednesdays (Ms McGuinness) and handed in a week later. Homework will be either Topic, Maths or Literacy. It could be paper based or using Purple Mash, which will be set as a 'To Do' on your child's Purple Mash account.
Click below for the homework timetables for each term as a reminder of when and who is giving out the homework each week:
Term 1; Term 2; Term 3; Term 4; Term 5 and Term 6.
Spelling words will be given out on Mondays and tested on Fridays. Please can you ensure your child writes them out a further two times in their home-school book. Here is the Year 3 overview and the Year 4 overview we will be using to set your child's spelling words for the week.
Times Tables will be practised throughout the week and tested on Fridays. We will go through these tables, in this order:
x2 x5 x10 x3 x6 x4 x8 x7 x9 x11 x12
If your child doesn't achieve full marks 13/13, then they will have the opportunity the following week to have another go. We would rather them be secure in a table, before proceeding to the next one. When they are secure in all of their times tables, they will proceed to the Division Challenge and then Fraction and Decimal Challenges.
Doodle Maths: Your child has a subscription to Doodle Maths and we recommend that they spend 10 minutes a day using Doodle Maths to develop their numeracy skills.
Home School Books: Your child will be given a home-school book at the start of Term 1, Term 3 and Term 5. They will be expected to bring these books into school everyday. On Monday they will copy their spelling words to learn for that week into the first column. At home they need to copy these words out two more times in the 2nd and 3rd column. Please can your child record what they have read during the week and if an adult can sign it so that they can earn points, which will go towards reading certificates and a chance to choose a new book when they have read 100 times at home. There is also a section for them to practise their multiplication tables.
Maths Frame is a fantastic free resource to help learn and practise your multiplication tables.
Hero of the Week
Your children have been asked to think about a hero: dead, alive, known personally, do not know personally, who they admire and respect. We would like them to talk to the class about this person for a couple of minutes - they can use a Powerpoint, photographs, objects to assist them with this. Confidence in speaking out loud to an audience is something we like to develop in our children.
Here is the rota (initials only) for the year.
***SPECIAL REMINDERS***
Please can you ensure that all clothes and equipment are named or labelled.
Additional activities:
- Books for Topics have amazing links to free readings of lots of really popular books.
- The Book Trust have some amazing activities available, including authors reading their books allowed and illustrators teaching you how to draw.
- NRICH has lots of interesting Maths activities and challenges, as does I see Maths.