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8 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2017 by

Class 3 Weekly Update

Happy New Year! We’ve got straight back to it in Class 3 this week, here are some of the things we’ve been getting up to….

English: We have been doing some grammar work this week, focusing on adverbs for time and place as well as adverbial phrases. We have been learning what these are and have been practising being able to spot them within a sentence. The children have had a go at improving sentences by adding these and will be challenged to create some of their own on Monday.

Maths: We have continued to practise the grid method for multiplication and some children have moved onto the expanded column method. The children have begun to apply their methods to some worded problems this week. We moved onto division today, where we have revised how to use a number line to help us and will continue this next week.

History: The children have been introduced to their new topic about The Romans. They were all very excited and keen to tell me what they already know. We then spent some time looking through information books to get a general overview of The Romans and came up with some questions we would like to find the answers to throughout the term.

RE: We have just begun our incarnation unit which begins by looking at baptism. We have read  and watched clips from the ‘Miracle Maker’ of the baptism of Jesus and discussed how this can help us to understand Christian’s believes in the Trinity.

PE: The children have enjoyed doing some circuit training this week.

French: The children have been learning how to say parts of the body today and had great fun singing ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ in french.

9 years ago
Posted on 16th Dec 2016 by

Class 3 Homework

Dear Parents/Carers,

The children have been set a Christmas Holiday homework on purplemash. They have been asked to write a poem about winter or snow. We have been doing lots of work on poetry over the last few weeks and they are very good at writing poems.

There are prompts on the left hand side of the homework online but I have told the children to ignore these and just focus on:

-Descriptive language

– Repetition

– Structuring and organising their poem correctly

This homework is due in on Friday 6th January. I have provided paper copies for the children who said they needed them.

Also, I have reminded children that they are expected to be learning their times tables each week. It is really important they continue to learn them throughout the year as this will help them in many different areas of  maths. We will begin to do times tables tests next term.

Thank you for your continued support throughout this term, it is very much appreciated. I hope you have a very happy Christmas. See you in the new year!

9 years ago
Posted on 14th Dec 2016 by

Class 3 Christmas Party

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9 years ago
Posted on 12th Dec 2016 by

Class 3 Christmas Party

Dear Parents/Carers,

This year we will be having our own class Christmas party on the afternoon of Wednesday 14th December. As I am sure you are aware, this is the same day as the school Christmas Lunch so we are not doing a food list as in previous years but would appreciate any contributions of snack type food – biscuits, crisps, popcorn,  which the children can have throughout the afternoon.

The children must come to school in their uniform but can bring party clothes to change into in the afternoon.

 

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to pop into school to ask. I would just like to take the opportunity to say thank you for your continued support throughout this term and have a Happy Christmas.

9 years ago
Posted on 09th Dec 2016 by

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Dear Parents and Carers,

The children have not been set spellings this week as next week is very busy with other things going on.

I have told the children that as their homework (this week and over Christmas) I would like them to work really hard on learning their times tables.

Year 3 children need to know their 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, and 8 times tables by the end of Year 3.

Year 4 children need to know all times tables up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4.

I have told children not to overwhelm themselves but to focus on one times table a week to really try to get to grips with.

Thank you for your support with this,

Miss Barratt

9 years ago
Posted on 09th Dec 2016 by

Class 3 Weekly Update

Class 3 have been working hard this week:

English – We have continued our work on narrative poetry this week and have linked it to our RE lessons about the Christmas Story. We have looked at how Christmas Carols are poems and analysed them to see which parts of the Christmas Story different ones talk about. We have also planned and written our own Christmas Poems  – retelling all or part of the Christmas story ourselves.

Maths – We have continued our work on multiplication this week and have applied our knowledge of multiplying by 10 and 100 to other contexts. We have also moved onto learning the grid method for multiplication which we will go over again after Christmas.

PE – Children have continued to practise key skills in PE this week.

We have been working very hard this week on final rehearsals ready for Joseph. We can’t wait for you to see it!

Have a lovely weekend!

9 years ago
Posted on 02nd Dec 2016 by

Class 3 Weekly Update

It’s been another hard working week in Class 3!

English – This week we have been learning about narrative poetry and have read ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo – which the children have really enjoyed. We have described the feelings of the character’s in the poem and then planned and wrote our own narrative poem about our journey home from school. The children were very good at this and used lots of fantastic features such as repetition.

Maths – We have continued our work on multiplication and division. This week we have been learning about multiplying and dividing by 10 and where all the digits in a number move when you do this. We have also solved some reasoning problems about multiplication and division.

PE – The children have continued to practise key skills in PE this week.

We have now finished our science topic and will be aiming to finish our geography topic next week too.

The children have been working hard rehearsing for Joseph and it’s all coming together nicely.

Have a lovely weekend!

9 years ago
Posted on 02nd Dec 2016 by

Class 3 Spellings to be tested on Friday 9th December

Orange

End blends

‘sk’

 Green

Revision of words with

‘au’ making ‘or’ sound

 

 Blue

Words making long ‘a’ sound spelt ‘ai’

 Purple

Words making long ‘a’ sound spelt ‘ai’
ask

task

mask

tusk

risk

desk

 

Tricky Words:

find

fast

 haunt

fraud

sauce

pause

cause

 

Months of the Year:

September

 

 faint

waist

praise

afraid

claim

straight

RE Topic Words

shepherds

saviour

 

 

 faint

waist

contain

complaint

campaign

straight

RE Topic Words

shepherds

saviour

 

 
Red

Words with the prefix ‘im’

 Yellow

Revision of words with ‘wh’

    
imperfect

important

impossible

imperfect

impolite

 

RE Topic Words

shepherds

saviour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 whip

what

whisk

whale

white

wheel

whisper

Months of the Year:

September