Highfield CE Primary School Blog Feed - Year 3/4

RE Ponder Time

Fri, 6 Mar 2026 10:44:35 GMT

Children had the opportunity to learn about devotion in the context of religious festivals. They chose a religion they wanted to learn more about!

Fencing

Mon, 9 Feb 2026 10:52:07 GMT

Please enter an introduction for your blog post here.

The Living Rainforest!

Tue, 3 Feb 2026 11:30:28 GMT

The Year 3/4 Living Rainforest trip was a huge success!

Panto!

Wed, 7 Jan 2026 11:49:57 GMT

Thank you Highfield Family and Friends!

Varjak Paw wow day!

Tue, 6 Jan 2026 08:40:19 GMT

To immerse the children in their new literacy book 'Varjak Paw' the child had a WOW day.

SCM Worship

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:40:00 GMT

Southampton City Mission delivered a Christmas themed worship to the children!

Sketching

Tue, 2 Dec 2025 14:03:15 GMT

Year 3/4 have been developing their sketching skills.

Remembrance

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:42:42 GMT

The children made some beautiful poppy art for Remembrance day!

People of God

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:42:28 GMT

Children have enjoyed learning about 'People of God' in their RE unit this half term.

Trojans hockey

Sat, 4 Oct 2025 12:16:03 GMT

The children in year 3/4 have thoroughly enjoyed their new after-school hockey club!

Stone Age Day!

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:39:54 GMT

The children had an incredible day learning all about the Stone Age!

A great start to the year!

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:29:37 GMT

It has been an amazing first week back in Year 3/4, and already the children have been getting up to some fantastic learning.

Canopic Jars

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:37:46 GMT

Well done 3/4 for making such incredible Canopic jars.

Poetry

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:09:47 GMT

A beautiful poem by someone in Australasia

RNLI Visit

Thu, 5 Jun 2025 17:25:31 GMT

This week the RNLI visited us!

Gardening

Tue, 13 May 2025 16:25:32 GMT

Here is 3/4 enjoying the nature outside!

Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx

Wed, 7 May 2025 12:33:03 GMT

3/4 have been really enjoying their new book of 'Marcy and the riddle of the Sphinx'. We have even decided to write our own chapters, inspired by the book.

Egyptian day

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:13:49 GMT

In 3/4 our first day back was an incredible Egyptian wow day!

Butterflies!

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:58:13 GMT

It has been a joy this week to watch our butterflies emerge!

Gardening Club

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:41:20 GMT

Gardening club is in full swing!

Southern Water Visitor

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:30:42 GMT

The pupils in Lower KS2 really enjoyed Harry from Southern Water coming in this week to talk about sewers. The photos really grossed us all out!! We learnt with games and quizzes some important information about protecting our planet. Did you know a sewer pipe is only 10cm wide? And we must only flush the 3 P's down the drains... pee, poo and paper!

Plants!

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:04:52 GMT

It's been an exciting start to term, launching a new topic of plants. This week pupils set up an experiment with seeds and will test the 'needs' of the plants for healthy growth. Some pupils also began their own gardening club, so we gave them some seeds and fenced them off an area by the pond. We cant wait for Spring and to see what grows.

Tudor dancing

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:32:09 GMT

Today we performed our Tudor dances in PE!

Chinese New Year

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:27:02 GMT

It was wonderful to hear all about Chinese New year today in a presentation the pupils had made.

STEM workshop

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:37:27 GMT

This week we were lucky enough to have a STEM workshop run by Millie's parents in year 3/4. The pupils enjoyed a workshop where they had to get a Lego car across a paper bridge. But the problem was that paper is not a strong material.... or is it?! The different ways we folded the paper increased its strength. We also investigated how circles and triangles are much stronger than squares and rectangles. The pupils were all awarded an engineering certificate and had a wonderful time. Thank you to Waterman Aspen and Ramboll companies for coming in to inspire us.

180 reading points treat for Australasia and Africa

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:52:18 GMT

Both Australasia and Africa got into PJs and party clothes today for either a film, karaoke, biscuit decorating and/ or Christmas craft this afternoon. These treats were earned because we have been counting up all of our reading diary entries. Well done for all the amazing reading!

Iron Man writing

Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:36:40 GMT

Jane Austen's house

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:43:59 GMT

This week year 3 and 4 visited Jane Austen's house in Alton for their Georgian topic!

Nature walk

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:26:11 GMT

It was wonderful today to walk to the Little Common and identify British trees by their leaves. This was taught in previous years but it can be hard to remember, so we revisited our learning. It was so fun looking at the environment around us, discussing seasonal changes and showing respect for our local area.

Remembrance day

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:30:17 GMT

Just a small selection of our art work

A visitor!

Mon, 4 Nov 2024 12:20:06 GMT

Thank you Hemi for coming in and doing a wonderful workshop about the meaning of our school prayer.

Life lab

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:52:47 GMT

Thank you to Life lab for dropping off their flight case of healthy heroes for us to explore!

Still life

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:55:20 GMT

We asked the pupils to do a simple pre assessment and show us what they can already do in art this week. Skye however blew us away with this stunning drawing of a plant in our classroom! We can wait to see what she can draw after we have taught her more techniques such as cross hatching, shading and light tough techniques. Well done Skye!

French

Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:03:07 GMT

French is superb!

Wonderful writing

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:26:19 GMT

This week we began our literacy journey on The Great Kapok Tree.

A wonderful first day

Tue, 3 Sep 2024 18:30:11 GMT

It was an absolute joy to spend time with the new classes today. Everyone had so much fun, especially the teachers! We have started to build a wonderful class culture of respect and kindness. In Australasia we painted some sunflowers with watercolours. It was great to see the focus the class showed doing a still life painting plus they all turned out so differently, sharing our personalities too!

Valley Gardens

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:25:08 GMT

Today we explored Valley Gardens, the beautiful area within the University campus.

Beans!

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:15:25 GMT

We had fun in 3/4 growing beans this Summer.

Oliver and the Seawigs

Tue, 9 Jul 2024 16:08:01 GMT

Oliver and the Seawigs!

A meal fit for a Roman!

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:13:11 GMT

In 3 and 4 we have been learning about the rich and poor Roman diets.

circuits

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:27:00 GMT

electricity

Roman Pottery

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:07:41 GMT

Roman Pottery

Biographies

Mon, 13 May 2024 17:33:15 GMT

Biographies

Digestion

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:53:11 GMT

In year 3 and 4 science, we have been learning about digestion and even pretended to BE food, moving through the digestive system. We can now name the organs involved and some of their functions. Well done 3/ 4.

Dr Chapman visits

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:28:22 GMT

A big thank you to Dr Chapman and his fellow scientist Anastasia who came in to talk to year 3 and 4 today.

Peace

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:32:30 GMT

This week in RE, year 3 and 4 reflected on the concept of 'peace'. We discussed what it made us think of and designed our own new world symbols that represented peace on Earth. Take a look at some of these!

Science month

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:42:21 GMT

Recently we have been lucky enough to have some super scientists visit us in 3/4. On Monday we had a 'silly scientist' from the Education group come in and talk to us on the three points of a fire triangle, solids liquids and gases and how air can expand with heat. His experiments were so fun! On Tuesday we had Professor Ivan Haigh and his PHD student Sunke from Southampton Oceanography centre talk to us about how small environmental changes can make a big difference. It was eye opening to see how our planet is changing and how we can help with tackling climate change. We all went home with a warming/ biodiversity stripe plus the feeling that we CAN make a positive difference. Thank you to all our visitors :)

A wonderful talk

Tue, 5 Mar 2024 18:53:42 GMT

Bevin from Australasia planned and delivered a wonderful and interesting talk on some Parami cards he had. He explained Dhamma and went though the key skills. It was interesting to see so many similarities of values between this and other religions. Thanks Bevin, you spoke so proudly and educated us all.

Classification

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:58:13 GMT

This term in science we are classifying living things. We performed research on the computers looking into body structure, diet, habitat etc. We then made classification keys. We had a lot of fun recapping previous learning such as omnivores, carnivores and herbivores then devloping our knowledge futher learning about vertbrates and invertebrates. It was wonderful to see the pupils working in pairs and small groups so well as they researched safely.

DT Day

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:02:25 GMT

Today the pupils had a DT day whereby they designed different varieties of scones, flatbreads and muffins. They practised techniques like rolling, mixing and measuring. They chose their ingredients and evaluated them afterwards, proposing what they would do differently next time.