Learning Lemurs (Year 3)

Spring 1 Newsletter

I will start the first Newsletter of 2024 by wishing everyone a happy new year!! A very warm welcome back to school after the Christmas break.  I hope you all were able to enjoy time together as a family.

This half term our topic will be Going Underground.  We will be learning about what coal is and how a pit can be described. We will explore where some of the local pits were and what sources of evidence do we have that can tell us about local mining. We will explore what changes were made to mining after disasters that made them safer places to work.

In Literacy, we will be writing diaries based on the experience of a miner and writing non chronological reports based around our Going Underground topic. We will link this also with our ICT work.  In science we will be learning about animals including Humans.  Our maths will focus on length and perimeter and fractions.

Online Safety

In our E Safety lesson we will describe appropriate ways of how to behave towards one another online and why this is important. We will explore different ways of how we can be kind online and how we should act online.

PE kit

Our PE days are on a Monday and Wednesday. Please make sure your child comes to school in PE kit on Mondays. On Wednesdays will continue swimming. This will resume on Wednesday 17^th January. Please make sure your child brings a warm tracksuit top because we will aim to be outside where possible.

We will listen to children read in school in a variety of situations. When you listen to your child read separately, please keep a record of this in their home school reading diary. We will collect these in every Friday and count them on our journey up our class reading trees of bronze, silver and gold. Please make sure your child aims to bring in their reading book and reading together book every day in school.  

Targets:

Reading:

*I can identify and discuss themes e.g. good over evil, weak and strong, wise and foolish etc.

* I can read a range of non-fiction texts, e.g. information, discussion, explanation, biography  and persuasion.

*I can predict what might happen from details and events in the text.

 Science:

• I can describe the simple functions of the digestive system in humans.
• I can identify different teeth in humans and name their functions.
• I know how to keep my teeth healthy
• I can identify and compare teeth of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Homework

Your child will continue to receive homework every Friday to be handed in by the following Wednesday. Please dojo me with any problems or activity your child has found hard and where possible we will follow this up in class. 

Spellings will be handed out on a Friday to be tested the following Friday. Children can take their books home so that you can see their results, but they must have their book back in school every Monday.

Times tables will be tested every Friday morning. Children will be learning a selected times table during our weekly maths lesson. The aim is for all children to know their times tables up to 12x12 by the end of year 4.  Any short practice, at any time will help your child to know all their facts for quick recall.  For most of the half term I will test the children using the Daily 10 Top marks website: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10.  It will be set at level 4 and we will be on a 10 second interval for each question. This can be practiced at home at any time.

Kind regards  

Mr Fidler

Class teacher Year 3

Curriculum Web for this half term 

Please take a look at the wonderful things we will be learning about this half term

Autumn 2 Newsletter

A very warm welcome back to school after the half term break.  I hope you all were able to enjoy time together as a family.

This half term our topic will be Wicked Weather. We will be exploring what the difference between weather and climate is and learning that the climate of the United Kingdom is mild, temperatures are usually only warm or cool and we get lots of rain. We will explore how stormy weather can change the landscape by river levels rising and how land is flooded. We will link this in to current local events

In Literacy, we will be writing an adventure story to include some suspense writing, which will build upon our first person story writing last term. We will be writing a range of poetry linked to the weather. In science we will be learning about sound. Our maths will focus on multiplication and division

Online Safety

We will explore what is meant by trusting someone online and why this is different from ‘liking someone online. We will explore why it is important to be careful about who to trust online including what information and content they are trusted with.

PE kit

Our PE days are on a Monday and Wednesday. Please make sure your child comes to school in PE kit on Mondays. On Wednesdays, for the next 5 weeks we will be swimming. Please make sure your child brings a warm tracksuit top because we will aim to be outside where possible.

We will listen to children read in school in a variety of situations. When you listen to your child read separately, please keep a record of this in their home school reading diary. We will collect these in every Friday and count them on our journey up our class reading trees of bronze, silver and gold. Please make sure your child aims to bring in their reading book and reading together book every day in school.  

Targets:

Reading:

• Reading books at an age appropriate level (within the year 3 Lexile Range)
• I can predict what might happen from details and events in the text.
• I can retrieve key information from non-fiction texts.
• I can prepare a poem to read aloud, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume.
• I can use intonation, tone and volume when reading aloud.
• I can take note of punctuation when reading aloud.

 Science:

• To identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.
• Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.
• Find patterns between pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.
• Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.

• Recognise that sound gets fainter as the distance from the sound source increases

 Homework

Your child will continue to receive homework every Friday to be handed in by the following Wednesday. Please dojo me with any problems or activity your child has found hard and where possible we will follow this up in class. 

Spellings will be handed out on a Friday to be tested the following Friday. Children can take their books home so that you can see their results, but they must have their book back in school every Monday.

Times tables will be tested every Friday morning. Children will be learning a selected times table during our weekly maths lesson. The aim is for all children to know their times tables up to 12x12 by the end of year 4.  Any short practice, at any time will help your child to know all their facts for quick recall.  For most of the half term I will test the children using the Daily 10 Top marks website: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10.  It will be set at level 4 and we will be on a 10 second interval for each question. This can be practiced at home at any time.

Kind regards  

Mr Fidler

(Class teacher Year 3 )

Curriculum Web for this half term 

Please take a look at the wonderful things we will be learning about this half term

Autumn 1 Newsletter

A very warm welcome back to school after the summer holidays and welcome to Key Stage Two – Year 3.  I hope you have all had a lovely summer break and all the children are refreshed and well rested ready for the learning challenges ahead in year 3!!

As you can see from the title, we have chosen to be called Learning Lemurs.

This half term our topic will be Awesome Egyptians. We will learn all about The Egyptian civilization, the significance of the Pyramids, Egyptian Gods, and the mummification process. We will be taking part in an exciting school trip to Weston Park Museum on Thursday 28^th September to further our learning out of the classroom. In English we will be writing a newspaper report based on Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tutankhamun and writing a story in the first person, based on an Egyptian adventure. Our maths lessons will focus on place value. Please keep on regularly practicing your times tables over each week. There will be a different times table each week up to 12 x12, then we will repeat them over the year.  They really do make a difference to all maths work that is done in class.

PE kit

Our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays. Children can come to school in PE kit on Mondays and please remember to bring swimming kit every Wednesday. We may arrive back a little late on Wednesdays after school, 3:30-3:35 ish due to traffic on the roads. 

Online Safety:

We will be exploring self image and identity. We will discuss what parts of their identity they may decide to share online and which parts haven’t they shared.  We will look at arrange of online profiles and discuss what similarities do the profiles have and what makes them different. We will also discuss how can someone change their identity online by making a different picture or avatar, or changing screen name and profile information etc.

 Homework

Your child will continue to receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. There will be spellings; both a sheet to be handed in weekly and online games using Spelling Shed.  Times-tables and reading will also be on a weekly basis in addition to Maths and English homework which will alternate each week.

 Spellings will be handed out on a Friday to be tested the following Friday . Children can take their books home so that you can see their results, but they must have their book back in school every Monday.  

Times tables will be tested every Friday morning. Children will be learning a selected times table during our weekly maths lesson. The aim is for all children to know their times tables up to 12x12 by the end of year 4.  Any short practice, at any time will help your child to know all their facts for quick recall. 

I will test the children using the Daily 10 Top marks website: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10.  It will be set at level 4 and we will start on a 10 second interval for each question. This can be practiced at home at any time.

If you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to help then please do not hesitate to ask.

Kind regards Mr Fidler

(Class teacher Year 3)

Curriculum Web and Topic Knowledge Organisers for this half term

Please take a look at the wonderful things we will be learning about this half term.