Willow

Year 3 - Mrs Mossom and Mrs Clark

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.

SUMMER 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, Mrs Clark 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 The United Kingdom.

Knowledge Organiser United Kingdom

Knowledge organiser United Kingdom.pptx

Our class novel this half term is: Land of Roar: Jenny McLachlan

Writing: In writing we will be developing our descriptive writing skills, using setting and character descriptions and speech based on Iron Man. We will be exploring persuasive letters and non chronological reports and learning more spelling strategies to help us spell more accurately.

Maths: We will be developing our understanding of 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 plants and forces.

PE: We will be developing our problem solving skills, team work and athletics.

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

French: We will be learning about what we can do and the seasons.

Art: We will be learning how to print using different techniques.

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;