Autumn 2

Week 5: Week commencing Monday 27th November - Friday 1st December

Our learning highlight for this week was definitely Spanish Day! The children loved learning 10 animal names in Spanish through a combination of games, listening, reading, writing and speaking activities! We learnt whether the animal started with 'un or una' and how to say 'I am' (soy) and 'I have' (Tengo) and managed to recap Spanish numbers 1-10 and colours too!  Make sure you ask your child about the Spanish they have learnt this week - they could even teach you a word or two and check out the pictures below which show our learning in action!

Our handball lessons continued with Hayden, a sports coach from SHAPES; in science the children consolidated their knowledge on rocks and learnt about the contribution Florence Bascom made to the field of geology in America!

Home Learning

We are no longer using Google Classroom to set homework.

Over the next week, we will be checking to see who has completed the mymaths activities and if tasks have not been completed, we will be offering a home learning club on a Wednesday breaktime where children will get the opportunity to complete these tasks.

If for whatever reason, you are struggling to complete these tasks at home, then do come and have a chat - either during drop off or pick up or we can chat over the telephone.  It could be that we can provide you with a print out of the tasks or an additional copy of your child's username/password for mymaths etc. 

Mymaths: Two tasks on bar division and multiplication. 

Spellings: Practise spellings from their spelling books (these lists are updated each Monday, ready for the Friday test)

Reading: Read at least 3 times a week with your child, asking them questions about the text.  Please remember to sign your child's reading record every time they read with you.  Reading plus is also available if children would like to use that to practise their reading and comprehension skills too. The children have been accessing the programme in school and should know their username and password. Please let us know if you require their username/password.  

Dates for Your Diary

Over the next fortnight, we will be formally assessing the children on their reading fluency, comprehension, maths, spelling and writing through a combination of different activities.  We will use these results, together with other formative assessments to draft our End of Year reports, which will be sent out just before the Christmas break.

PE: Wednesdays

Forest School: Fridays (Children to bring in appropriate wet weather clothing, such as a warm, outdoor coat, PE top, joggers, waterproof trousers (if you have them) and strong shoes or wellies.)

Request for empty cereal boxes: please could your child bring in 1 empty cereal box, which we will be putting to good use in our Design and Technology lessons, closer to Christmas! Thank you!

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Y3 Team

Autumn 2

Week 4: Week commencing Monday 20th November - Friday 24th November

We’ve had another action-packed week in Year 3. We have nearly finished our information report on foxes in English and did an experiment looking at the hardness of rocks in Science, learning all about the Mohs scale. We tested lots of different rocks and decided which was our hardest and softest rock (see below for some action shots). In Maths this week we have started our next unit of work, which is on multiplication. We have been looking at both mutiplication and division of the 2 and 3 times table.

Home Learning

We are no longer using Google Classroom to set homework.

Mymaths: Two multiplication tasks.

Spellings: Practise spellings from their spelling books (these lists are updated each Monday, ready for the Friday test)
Reading: Read at least 3 times a week with your child, asking them questions about the text.  Please remember to sign your child's reading record every time they read with you.  Reading plus is also available if children would like to use that to practise their reading and comprehension skills too. The children have been accessing the programme in school and should know their username and password. Please let us know if you require their username/password.  

Dates for Your Diary

PE: Wednesdays

Forest School: Fridays (Children to bring in appropriate wet weather clothing, such as a warm, outdoor coat, PE      
                        top, joggers, waterproof trousers (if you have them) and strong shoes or wellies.)

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Y3 Team

Autumn 2

Week 3: Week commencing Monday 13th November - Friday 17th November

We’ve had an action-packed week in Year 3, what with our sponsored Pudsey-run, forest school session and handball lesson on Wednesday but our learning highlight was probably our computing lesson! Children learnt more about animations, including that they’re comprised of frames; they used iMotion on the iPads to create their own simple animation with a partner using the ‘onion skinning’ function to assist them! See below for some examples of our work! We also began to plan our information report on foxes in English and continued our discovery lessons on rocks, fossils and soil.  In Maths this week we have completed our learning on column addition and subtraction and have moved on to our new unit on multiplication and division.
 

Home Learning

We are no longer using Google Classroom to set homework

Mymaths: 3 and 4 times table tasks

Spellings: Practise spellings from their spelling books (these lists are updated each Monday, ready for the Friday test)
Reading: Read at least 3 times a week with your child, asking them questions about the text.  Please remember to sign your child's reading record every time they read with you.  Reading plus is also available if children would like to use that to practise their reading and comprehension skills too. The children have been accessing the programme in school and should know their username and password. Please let us know if you require their username/password.  

Dates for Your Diary

PE: Wednesdays

Forest School: Fridays (Children to bring in appropriate wet weather clothing, such as a warm, outdoor coat, PE      
                        top, joggers, waterproof trousers (if you have them) and strong shoes or wellies.)

Reading Showcase: Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st 8.40-9.30am.

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Y3 Team

Autumn 2

Week 2: Week commencing Monday 6th November - Friday 10th November

Please note that P.E. days have changed to Wednesday - when an external coach will be teaching us Handball and on Friday afternoon, both classes will be receiving Forest School sessions with Mrs Reid and Mr Templar.  For this children are advised to bring in appropriate wet weather clothing, such as a warm, outdoor coat, PE top, joggers, waterproof trousers (if you have them) and strong shoes or wellies. We will endeavour to go out in all weathers and Forest School sessions will continue for the remainder on this half term.

Our highlight this week was our art day where we focussed on paintings of poppies ahead of Remembrance Day.  The children had a fantastic day exploring paintings, recreating an artists painting, planning and creating their own poppy painting. The work produced was beautiful. See the pictures below for some of your children in action.

In Maths this week we have continued and embedded our knowledge of column subtraction.
 

Home Learning

We are no longer using Google Classroom to send homework out. 
Two homework tasks have been set on mymaths.

Children have spellings they need to learn this week in their spelling test books (these lists are updated each Monday, ready for the Friday test. 
 

Please continue to read at least 3 times a week with your child, asking them questions about the text.  Please remember to sign your child's reading record every time they read with you.

Some children might want to do some independent reading on reading plus. The children who have been accessing the programme in school should know their username and password. 

Dates for Your Diary

On Wednesday 15th November, Olive and Sage Class will take part in a 'Run Pudsey Smile for a While' - Children will be completing their sponsored run during this PE lesson and they are invited to wear Pudsey head bands/badges whilst they take part if they would like to. 

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Y3 Team

Autumn 2

Week 1: Week Commencing Monday 30th October - Friday 3rd November

Welcome to a new half term!

Please note that P.E. days have changed to Wednesday - when an external coach will be teaching us Handball and on Friday afternoon, both classes will be receiving Forest School sessions with Mrs Reid and Mr Templar.  For this children are advised to bring in appropriate wet weather clothing, such as a warm, outdoor coat, PE top, joggers, waterproof trousers (if you have them) and strong shoes or wellies.  We will endeavour to go out in all weathers and Forest School sessions will continue for the remainder on this half term.

Our highlight this week was uncovering our new text: Fox.  Our focus over the next few weeks is to explore the features of information texts and write our own about foxes - ensuring we write a balanced and detailed report.  We also posed the question ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who are We?’ by creating identity maps as part of our Schools Linking Project, which we are taking part in with Ashbury Meadows Primary School. 

In science this half term, we are considering ‘What makes a good scientist?’ and through narrative immersion, we will be helping Amira with a secret mission, which will lead us to discover all about rocks, fossils and soil! 
 

Home Learning this week

We are no longer using Google Classroom to send homework out. 
Two homework tasks have been set on mymaths.

Children have spellings they need to learn this week in their spelling test books (these lists are updated each Monday, ready for the Friday test. 
 

Please continue to end at least 3 times a week with your child, asking them questions about the text.  Please remember to sign your child's reading record every time they read with you.

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Y3 Team

Week 7: Week Commencing Monday 16th October - Friday 20th October

In Y3 this week:

This week we have introduced Year 3 to the Schools Linking Project we will be taking part in this year, which is with Ashbury Meadows Primary School. We have created some bunting to send over to our partner class so that they can learn more about who we are. We will be doing more projects before Christmas to get to know each other. 

In History this week we have finished off our topic answering "is fire the most important discovery?". We have been designing our own piece of Stone Age cave art. We then used charcoal to create our design. We turned the tables over so that we could recreate what it would be like to draw on a cave wall, which the children really enjoyed.

Home learning this week:

There is no homework set over the holidays but please continue to read with your child as often as you can. 

Key Information: 

After half term PE Days will be, indoor PE on a Wednesday and outdoor PE on a Friday. 

Please remember to sign your child's reading record every time they read with you - at least 3 times a week.  

Books, reading records and spelling books need to be brought into school on a daily basis.

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely break and we will see you all after the holiday.

Week 6 : Week Commencing Monday 9th October - Friday 13th October

In Y3 this week:

In maths this week, we have continued to use the number line to add and subtract 1s and 10s from a 3 digit number, where it has involved crossing 10 or 100.  This can be a challenging concept for the children to grasp, so we have been practising our knowledge of finding the nearest multiple of 10 and 100 and making links to our number bonds of 10 and 20, to help work this style of question out!  The children have show great resilience, problem -solving and determination during our maths lessons, so well done year 3!  

In P.E. this week, we have been learning to jump dynamically, thinking about the muscles we are using and developing when we practise jumping.  Children took part in a circuit of 5 different jumping stations and performed them for 3 minutes before rotating to the next one.  

They complete river jumps, heiman jumps, compass jumps, lunges and lateral jumps!

Home learning this week:

Please login to Google Classrooms to discover the learning challenges we have set for this week - a coding challenge - following on from a very popular coding lesson with Mr Choudry and two mymaths activities.  

Key Information: 

PE Days outdoor PE is on Tuesday and indoor PE is on a Friday. 

SEND appointments are taking place this week on Tuesday 17th AM and Wednesday 18th AM. 

Please remember to sign your child's reading record every time they read with you - at least 3 times a week.  

Books, reading records and spelling books need to be brought into school on a daily basis.

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Week 5 : Week Commencing Monday 2nd October - Friday 6th October

In Y3 this week we have :

In English this week we have been writing our approaching threat narrative based on the story the Iron Man. Every child has shown lots of creativity and determination to make their story enjoyable for a little bit scary for the reader. Ask your child and see if they can retell you part of their story.

In History this week we continued our discovery learning and looked at Stone Age houses. We went into the forest to recreate a Stone Age house/shelter in groups using branches, leaves and tarpaulin. 

Home learning this week:

Please login to Google Classrooms to discover the learning challenges we have set for this week.

Key Information: 

PE Days outdoor PE is on Tuesday and indoor PE is on a Friday. 

Parent phone calls are in the morning of Tuesday 10th and Parents evening is Wednesday 11th. 

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Week 4 : Week Commencing Monday 25th September - Friday 29th September

In Y3 this week we have :

In Maths this week we have finished off our unit of work on place value where we determined whether numbers were greater than or less than each other.

For example:

234 > 189

234 is greater than 189

189 is less than 234

Ask your child and see if they can remember what this.

In History this week we continued our discovery learning and looked at the impact of farming from the Stone Age to Iron Age. We tried some food that would have been available in the Stone Age era and created a Stone Age Meal.

Home learning this week:

Please login to Google Classrooms to discover the learning challenges we have set for this week.

Key Information:

PE Days Outdoor PE is on Tuesday and indoor PE is on a Friday.

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Week 3

We have been continuing to code with Mr Choudry using Scratch Junior. We have been debugging programmes and learning how to code for a purpose and to achieve an outcome. We enjoyed making characters speak and move. 

Sage Class had the opportunity to explore Ludworth’s new play-pod today and what fun they had! They were incredibly creative in using the equipment and made all manner of creations from bridges and chocolate factories to cafes and hoverboards! This was also a fabulous opportunity for children to practise their team working and communication skills!  Equipment in the pod will be available for children to use at break times and lunchtimes so today provided a chance for us to practise taking out and putting the equipment away safely and sensibly, and learning when we might need a helping hand to carry the heavier pieces of equipment.

Week 2

Narrative Immersion: In Year 3, we have started to explore our class text, The Iron Man, predicting what we think the story may be about and understanding how he might sound and look like, using noun phrases and adverbs. 

Week 1

Smile for a While