St Mary's CofE Primary School
Welcome to Year 3
Teacher: Miss C. Tiplady Teaching Assistant: Mrs J. Wexler
During Autumn term, Year 3 have enjoyed:
- Learning about Place Value using Base 10 and Place Value counters,
- Recapping the properties of 2D and 3D shapes,
- Developing our skills in dodgeball and playing a dodgeball tournament,
- Our music lessons with Mr. Lee,
- Exploring Stone Age art, including sketching a Wholly Mammoth, painting the colour wheel and using charcoal for cave art.
- Learning to be 'TEAM' in PSHE,
- Exploring how Jesus changed the lives of others in R.E.
- Our Harvest cooking week (baking yummy flapjack),
- Our Christmas production with our dance from Kennedy's Performing Acts,
- Learning column addition, subtraction and the grid method in numeracy,
- The Science topics of Rocks and Light.
and writing some wonderful SABO sentences in literacy!
During Spring term, Year 3 have enjoyed:
- Learning the story of Jonah and the Whale,
- Exploring the perimeter of 2D shapes,
- Writing our own version of Little Red Riding Hood in literacy,
- Looking at the Eat Well Plate and the different food groups,
- Making a sketch map of our local area and using a compass for directions,
- Starting our new topic of Natural Disasters.
Homework:
Homework is set on a Friday and contains a spelling and a numeracy task. A banded reading book is also sent home. The numeracy task will revisit topics we have covered throughout the term. Homework is due back on a Wednesday. Spelling tests are every Friday.