Willow

Year 3 - Mrs Mossom and Miss Philpotts

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.

SPRING TERM

Class Routines

Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is the Year 3 playground door.

Our regular PE days are Thursday and Friday. On these days children should come to school in PE kit.

On a Thursday and Friday, Miss Philpotts will be teaching Willow and Coach Ben will be teaching both PE sessions. Mrs Corrigan will be supporting in Year 3.

Current Learning

This term our learning will focus around our history and geography unit on Egypt.

Knowledge Organiser Egypt

Knowledge organiser Egyptians.pptx

Our class novel this half term is: Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble by Zanib Mian.

Writing: In writing we will be developing our descriptive writing skills, using setting and character descriptions and speech in a story based on Alice in Wonderland . We will be exploring persuasive speeches by looking at Stella and the Seagull. We will be continuing to develop our handwriting using joining and thinking about spelling strategies to help us spell more accurately.

Maths: We will be developing our understanding of multiplication and division, then learning to find fractions of amounts and count in fractions. Alongside this we will be developing our fluency skills using Number Sense which we will practice daily.

Science: We will be learning about animals including humans.

PE: We will be developing our hockey and dance skills.

RE: We will be focusing our learning about the beliefs of Islam.

French: We will be learning about animals and transport.

Art: We will be learning how to use sketching to sketch facial features and draw self portraits.

Homework

Our expectations for homework are as follows:

Reading: Reading aloud with an adult as often as possible, with a minimum expectation of 4 times a week. This can be the school banded book or free reading at home; record any home reading in reading record. These will be checked weekly by the class teacher.

Spellings: Children should be able to spell all words on the Statutory Word Lists for Years 3/4 by the end of Year 4 so please learn a few at a time.

Times Tables: Children should know;