Welcome to Year 3

Our class teacher is Mr. Burns and Mrs. Alvi and Mrs Dubre work with our class to help us with our learning.  Mr. Graham also works with our class when we have P.E.

In Year 3, we have all agreed that we would like to work within a calm, friendly and encouraging learning environment, so we have promised to work hard to ensure that this happens.  Everyone has their strengths and everyone has weaknesses, but we will all be there for one another to ensure that we are in the best position to succeed.

We have worked, and will continue to work, a great deal at improving our growth mindset and working with resilience.  Getting something wrong is not an issue and we should have no fear of failure, as every mistake is another learning opportunity.  We must persevere until we get the right answer… after all, even Albert Einstein said that he wasn’t the most intelligent person, he just stayed at a problem longer than everyone else!

 

Remote Learning

In the event of remote-learning, we share learning and resources through ClassDojo. Parents and children are able to post messages, photos and videos and parents can see work and send me messages too. This is a really strong way of keeping our learning up to date and staying connected with our class. If you have any difficulties accessing ClassDojo, please contact the school office for further support.

 

English

This half term we will be basing our reading, writing, punctuation and grammar lessons on Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr.  We will explore several mediums of writing (including relevant punctuation and grammar activities to support this writing), as well as completing a variety of reading activities.

Additionally, here are some websites that the children may be asked to use for homework tasks throughout the course of the year (Passwords will be distributed to children in their homework books):

Access Spelling Frame here.

Access SPAG.com here.

Access Oxford Reading Buddy here.

 

Maths

As a school, we follow the White Rose Maths scheme of work with a focus on Teaching for Mastery.  In Year 3, we will be exploring fractions, time, measurement (mass and capacity), and geometry (angles and properties of 2D and 3D shapes).

Additionally, here are some websites that the children may be asked to use for homework tasks throughout the course of the year (Passwords will be distributed to children in their homework books):

Access Times Table Rock Stars here.

 

Science

This year we have been learning a whole host of extremely interesting Science topics to cover, and this term we will be focussing on Light, and Forces and Magnets.

 

Topic

Our current Year 3 topic for the Summer term is Ancient Greece, where we will be exploring who the Ancient Greeks were, democracy, the Olympics, the battle of marathon, the story of The Trojan Horse/War, and Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses.

 

PE

Year 3 have PE on a Monday afternoon with Mr. Graham and take part in activities based around the skills necessary in basketball, rugby, cricket, athletics dance and gymnastics throughout the course of the academic year.  We will also aim to take part in competitive tournaments throughout the year.  We are also taught to understand how to warm up/cool down properly, how to listen carefully and keep ourselves and each other safe from injury.

 

Homework

Homework will be handed out on a Friday and this needs to be handed in on the Tuesday of the following week.  This homework will be explained to the children before they go home on each Friday to make sure that they know what they will need to do.  This can range from completing tasks on a given website, completing spelling practise, times table practise and/or topic themed homework.

 

Reading

Reading books will be changed regularly, with the emphasis on the children to let us know when they have finished their current school reading book.  Additionally, if children have a book of interest they are reading at home, we absolutely encourage them to use this as their reading book to help foster a love for reading.  The aim is for all children to read at least three times a week with an adult, and to record this in their respective reading record.

 

Responsibilities and Rewards

Each class member will be given a responsibility role within our classroom, either as a class representative or to carry out tasks that help our lessons and activities to run smoothly.

The children can earn “Star of the Day” each day by impressing the teaching staff in a variety of manners – this could include trying our best, persevering with a challenging problem, being kind, showing improvement in courage, independence or enthusiasm and/or showing a good sense of humour.

Subsequently, each week we will select a “Star of the Week” from those children that have gained “Star of the Day” and this is awarded to someone who has consistently shown those same fantastic learning traits throughout the entire week.

 

Thank you for visiting!

If any parents have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Mr. Burns.