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.