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Year 3

Welcome, from Mr Goacher, Mrs Latham, Mrs Hassall and Mrs Griffiths

 

Dear Parents and Children,

 

Welcome to Year 3!

I hope you all had a fantastic time over the Christmas break, and your batteries are fully recharged ready for a busy term filed with learning.

Drop off and Pick up:

The children need to be dropped off on the KS1 playground (library doors) in the morning ready to go into class at 8:45.

At the end of the day the children will be sent out from the library doors, again, on the KS1 playground at 3.15.

English:

We will be looking at a number of different texts (both fiction and non-fiction) over the Spring Term. We will be looking at a wide range of both fiction and non-fiction texts fitting in around a theme of 'Our trip to the museum'. The children will look at how to write a first person recount of an event, biography writing, descriptive writing alongside re-telling part of a narrative based on the book 'Cakes in Space'.  The children will be practicing their writing skills in a variety of different tasks and activities where they will be continually improving their spelling, grammar and vocabulary skills.

Reading:

The children will all  be bringing home reading books on a weekly basis from school. These books can be returned to school whenever they are finished to by the children so they can be given a new book. We encourage you to read with your child as much as possible at home, hopefully around 3 time a week if possible. We will be completing lots of reading based tasks in school to help bring them back to speed over the coming weeks as well.

The children are all using the 'Lexia Core 5' reading program in school to aid with both reading and spelling skills. The children have access to use this online program at home, with their login details being stuck into the front of their reading records.

 

Spelling: 

In class the children are working on the Read Write Inc spelling scheme looking at a wide range of different spelling rules and patterns. The children will be given weekly spellings to learn, these will be given out to the children on a Friday and they will be tested on them on the following Friday.

 

Maths:

In year 3, we will be following the 'First4Maths'  program. As well as challenging the children (and giving those who are ready an opportunity to move on), this program will also help us to identify any areas of weakness that can then be addressed in more detail. This term the children will be focusing heavily on multiplication and division, money and starting to work on fractions.

The children will be doing lots of work on times tables this year. Each child will be given a particular x-table that they will be currently learning and will be tested on these each Friday. Weekly challenges for their x-tables are set on Times Table Rockstars with these being reset each Friday following their x-table tests. 

Geogrpahy:

Our cross curricular study is a Geography topic looking at the Rivers. We will be covering areas such as: 

·         How are rivers formed and where do they start? 

·         What is the water cycle and why is it so important?

·         What is the land around Nantwich used for?

·         What local waterways do we have and where do they start and end?

Through our work we hope to find answers to all of these questions and more. 

Science:

This term we are looking at forces and magnets. In this topic we will look at different forces and how they are all push or pull forces. We will also look closely at what both magnetism and friction as forces.

PE:

For this term the children will have PE on Wednesday afternoons and Friday Mornings. They are to remain in their PE kits all day on our designated PE day adhering to the schools uniform policy.

 

If you have any other questions regarding anything at all, please contact the office and we will answer any questions you have as best we can.