Welcome to Class 3

Watch our awesome Times Tables practice! These songs are what we use to learn our times tables 'rolling numbers'.

Welcome to Year 3 and 4!

Welcome to our class! In Class 3 this term, we will be taught by Miss Anderton on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday morning and Friday. On a Wednesday afternoon, we have French with Madame Walsh and Music with Mrs Thornton. Mrs Monteverde will teach us on a Thursday. Our teaching assistants are Miss Byers on Monday, Thursday and Friday, and Mrs Morris on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Johnson, our main class three teacher, is currently starting her phased return back to work, and we are hoping she is back with us as she begins to feel much better.

The Autumn Term.

Welcome to the first term of the school year! Typically, we are very busy in the first term back, and we have some really exciting things planned and some interesting topics too! If you have any questions, please direct them to Miss Anderton or Mrs Monteverde.

Maths  

In Class 3 we have great fun with maths. We learn our timetables through songs and using concrete materials and this underpins so many other areas of maths, which we learn through our Busy Ants Scheme. In Year 3 we learn x10, x2, x5, x3, x4 and x8 times tables. While Year 4 builds on this knowledge by learning the x6, x7, x9, x11 and x12 times tables so that by June they are ready for the MTC. We also continue to develop our fluency and understanding of maths through Big Maths, helping our mental maths skills. We explore maths through practical maths activities and problem-solving, developing our reasoning. 

English 

In English this term we are focusing on The Lion and the Unicorn and also Christmas poetry and The Jungle Book too. Throughout the term, we study and learn from a wide range of texts and stories, be it fiction, non-fiction, drama or poetry, and we like to introduce ourselves to new concepts and ideas all the time to help feed our curiosity and imagination. We love to read in Class 3, especially for pleasure - and we have a wide range of fantastic fiction books to choose from our class library, as well as a great range of non-fiction magazines to keep our general knowledge up to date with The Week Junior magazine, First News and Farmers Weekly to keep up-to-date with what's happening around the world. If your child has any magazines that they would like to donate to our library, then please bring these into class for others to enjoy.

Science 

In Science this term we are studying Living Things and their Habitats (Vertebrates and Invertebrates), as well as States of Matter- Solids, Liquids and Gases (The Water Cycle). The scientists we will research to help with understanding these topics are Robert Hooke, Jane Goodall and Anders Celcius.

Geography and History

This half-term we are studying Geography and the Environmental Regions of Europe, Russia, North America and South America. We will be focused heavily on our mapping skills and where the different environmental regions are on a map. 

Art and DT

DT this half-term will be focusing on How to make a Box and learning how to make our own boxes to hold something. We will explore different ways of how to make boxes and what nets are needed to make specific shapes.

Spellings and Times Tables

On a Friday each week, we have spellings and times tables tests. The children will build up to 15 spellings a week which are based on a spelling pattern, but we will be repeating 10 of these spellings each week, to help the children retain their spellings more consistently. The spellings are at the end of this page, and they will be on the 'spelling shed' website each week, so the children can learn them in a fun and interactive way. Times tables are also practised during the school day and available through the Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) website. The children enjoy this alternative method of practising their times tables.

PE 

This will take place on Monday and Thursday and has the focus of Ball Skills and Lacrosse. Children are required to come to school in their PE kit on these days. We will be outside as much as possible and should your child require a change of clothes that day, the class teacher will let you know. The children will also need their trainers for Mile-a-Day, which will be at 11:00am every day. 

Homework 

• Reading - In Class 3, children should continue to read for at least 5 mins every day. We have a sticker chart in the classroom to show when they read at home as well as logging it on Boom Reader.
• Guided Reading/English - each week, this will be uploaded onto Google Classroom and children will have one week to complete their Guided Reading homework. 
• Maths - also weekly; a maths sheet will be available on Google Classroom. This is connected to the concepts we have covered that week in our maths lessons. The children will have one week to complete their Maths homework.
• Spellings & Times Tables - Spelling and Times tables tests will be held each week on a Friday. Please learn spellings and times tables every day to ensure good knowledge of both. Please use Spelling Shed and TTRS to practise these. The whole term's spellings are at the bottom of this page and children can also use spelling shed to learn them each week. 

We hope you enjoyed reading about Class 3's adventures!

Mrs Johnson, Miss Anderton, Mrs Monteverde, Miss Byers and Mrs Morris.