Author: year3

Topic

This term in Topic we are looking at Scavengers and Settlers and have been making our very own fossils and miniature shelters (photos to follow soon).

We have also looked at our ancestors, both modern and historic.

Maths

In maths we are currently working on multiplication and we will soon be working on division.

Your child needs to keep working on those times tables especially 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10.  We have over half the class now working on the Silver Times Table Challenge.  Our aim is to get everyone off Bronze.

English

In English we have been looking at stories from other cultures using the book ‘African Tales’ starting with Makhosi and the Magic Horns (get your child to retell the story to you, if they can remember it).

Reading

Please ensure that your child reads every day for at least 15 minutes.  We are also taking part in the 10 million minute challenge as a school so we need as many minutes of reading as we can.  This is running from 9th to 15th March.

5th February 2017

This week we will be focusing our maths work on subtraction.

Safer Internet Day (SID)
This Tuesday 7th February 2017 is Safer Internet Day. We will be having special assemblies and year 3 will be looking at the issues around sharing images on the internet.

Busters reading challenge
On Wednesday 8th February 2017 we are entering Busters reading challenge where the school could win prizes so please remember to read and get bookmarks signed.

NSPCC Danceathon
Thursday 9th February is the NSPCC Danceathon & Mannequin challenge day.

Last day of term
The last day of term 3 is this Friday 10th February 2017. Have a good break.

Maths workshop

This week is assessment week.

 

Congratulations to all Kites that became rocket stars last week. Keep up the good behaviour and work.

 

Mathletics – There are lots of activities that pupils can use on the website. All children should now have a login to the system. So far, it appears that only a few children seem to have logged onto Mathletics.

 

Mathletics is a weekly homework task and students’ results contribute to a school wide display board and an inter school challenge with other schools around the world. If anyone has forgotten their password or needs help with how to login, please see Mrs Storti or Mr Ramsden.

 

Times Tables – a reminder that times tables should be practised weekly as tests for the Bronze, Silver and Gold challenges will become more regular.

 

On Thursday, we are participating in the school curriculum fayre where parents and carers can find out more about how we teach maths and English. If you can attend it would be good to see you there.

It is that time again when we carry out assessments to see how the children are getting along.

During the week we will be carrying out Arithmetic, Problem Solving and Reasoning, 2 Reading Comprehension papers, a spelling paper and a Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar paper.

This is now live and your child should have their very own login details.

Our topic this term is:

Within our science lessons, we have been looking at light and how we need it to be able to see. The children have then taken a closer look at the eye and are beginning to recognise different parts of the eye and what job they do.

Along with looking at how we need light to see, we’ve been identifying that light travels in straight lines and how shadows are created by objects blocking out the light.

We have been extremely lucky that one of our parent helpers is a first response volunteer and she has been talking to us about basic first aid and the steps to take to place someone in the recovery position.

So far this term we have enjoyed exploring the text ‘Into The Forest’ by Anthony Browne. The children have thoroughly enjoyed spying different traditional tale characters and props hidden within the illustrations.

After reading the text, we have used and extended the conversations the characters had by creating our own play scripts.  We have also used our knowledge of the text to rewrite and include detailed conversations between characters by using inverted commas.. To support our understanding of the characters and what they might say, we have used role play to take on characters to give ideas for our writing.

Not only have we been looking at ‘Into the Forest’ by Anthony Browne, we have just started to read another one of his stories called ‘Gorilla’.

The children took on the role of Hannah at the beginning of the story and wrote in the first person by describing what they thought her life might be like. All ideas were generated from a single image of Hannah sitting in the corner of an almost empty room, with only a TV to highlight her figure. After reading the text further, we found out that Hannah loved gorillas and felt extremely lonely as her father was too busy with work to take her anywhere. The children then used this for inspiration to write a diary entry by Hannah, explaining how they thought she felt about the events leading up to her birthday (extracts of the children’s work to follow).