Larch Y3

Year 3

Mrs Crocker

Autumn Term

Welcome to our class page. We hope you will find it useful and it will let you know what we are currently learning about in school.

Teacher Bio

Hello, my name is Mrs Crocker and I will be teaching Larch class this year. I enjoy reading in my spare time, especially detective and fantasy stories. I also love cross-stitching and Disney! As well as being a mum of three girls, I also have two young, black cats which keep me very busy (they are also named after detectives!).

Miss Fuller will be supporting in Larch full time from September.

Class Routines

Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is the Larch playground door.

Our regular PE days are as follows:

Outdoor PE - Tuesday

Indoor PE - Wednesday

On these days children should come to school in PE kit.

Our First Week:

During the first week of this school term each year group will be exploring a different country from around the world. We will be learning about Russia!

Our learning during this week will focus on our school's curriculum drivers (see below). We will be researching geographical features to write a fact file, as well as immersing ourselves in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. We will learn the story, create masks to act it out and learn all about the musical instruments that represent each character. We will end the week by using instruments to create our own animal story, and have a go at making a set of Russian Dolls!

Current Learning:

This half term our curriculum learning is all about The Stone Age and this surrounds the Big Question 'How could you survive the Stone Age?' For full details of this unit, have a look at our Topic Overview and Knowledge Organiser below.

At the moment, we are particularly focusing on this learning:

In Maths we will be starting our learning on place value. These lessons will involve exploring the value of 3 digit numbers, ordering and comparing numbers of different amounts and using concrete resources to support this learning.

In our English lessons this term we will be exploring short stories. We will be using the Stone Age Boy book to increase our knowledge of the Stone Age before using these ideas to write our own versions.

In curriculum lessons we will be focusing on history and learning lots about The Stone Age. We will also be learning about Sikhism in RE.

Larch Star Of The Week

10/9/21

Marcy-May

For her excellent participation in drama.