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Welcome To Our Year Three Class Page - Miss Connor
Welcome to the Autumn term!
Welcome back! We hope all our families have had a restful break as we are about to begin one of the busiest half terms of the year!
The core value for this half term is "respect". This is something we have already discussed at length in class. We regularly encourage the children to develop their mutual respect for both themselves and their new classmates. We have also discussed what it means to have respect for learning, the environment and our belongings. Throughout this half term, we will be looking for children who can show respect in the smallest ways as well as the most obvious!
Our curriculum for this term as well important dates and information about PE and homework are set out below and this webpage will be updated each half term with relevant information. Due to Reconciliation and class assemblies, during the first two weeks of the half term, we will be focussing on these areas of the curriclum. For enquiries or questions in the meantime, please get in touch via info@stjohnsrc.net.
Important dates this half term:
Monday 3rd November Sibling photo day
Sunday 9th November Sacramental meeting at St John's Parish Centre @ 11.15am
Wednesday 12th November Y3 to attend 10am mass at St John's church
Friday 14th November Y3 Trip to Tatton Park
Saturday 22nd November Cherry Reconciliation
Tuesday 25th November Cherry class assembly @ 9.30am
Sunday 30th November Whole school mass @ 12 noon
Christmas Fair at St John's school @ 1pm
Friday 12th Decemeber Sparkle and Shine Day
Tuesday 16th December KS2 Christmas Dinner
Carols by candlelight at St John's church @ 6pm
Thursday 18th December KS2 Party day (own clothes day)
Friday 19th December Finish for Christmas! 1.15 finish
Curriculum
Please find the information for our core subjects in Autumn 2 below:
English: We have already begun this term's text: Winter's Child. The children will be exploring themes and ideas in a fantasy story before having a go at writing their own fantasy. The children will be looking at fronted adverbials to show time and place as well as continuing to develop their use of expanded noun phrases.
Maths: In Maths, we will continue to work on addition and subtraction in the first half of the term. We have already covered formal written addition and subtraction so we will be consolidating this before looking at inverse operations.
Later in the term, we will move on to multiplication and division. During this unit, the children will work with the 2x, 5x, 10x, 3x, 4x, 8x tables. These are the times table sets they are expected to know by the end of the year. Throughout the topic we will use these times tables to explore arrays, sharing and grouping.
Religion:
In Religion, we will be finishing Branch 1: Creation and Covenant before beginning Branch 2: Prophecy and Promise. During this unit, the children will explore the parish church and the importance of the mass before exploring the themese and signs of Advent.
Simultaneously, we will be spending the first two weeks of the half term preparing for the first sacrament of the year: Reconciliation. Children not participating in this year's program, will complete a different religious based activity.
Science: Animals and Nutrition will be our new science topic. During this topic the children will be exploring the role of skeletons and muscles, learning how the body uses energy and what constitutes a balanced diet
Humanities: Why do people live near volcanoes? This is the question we will be asking the children in encouraging them to explore volcanoes and earthquakes - why they occur and the impact they have.
Homework
We are aware that home lives can be hectic and time for homework limited. In Year 3, homework is set every Monday and children have a week to complete tasks online. However, there is never any negative consequences for incomplete homework. We encourage children to complete homework tasks as and when they can.
ATOM PRIME:
In Key Stage 2, Maths and English tasks are set on an online platform called Atom Prime. Children will have a week to complete homework (from Monday to the following Sunday night). The children are given immediate feedback on their learning and questions are set based on success. With this in mind, it is important that children are encouraged to work independently on the tasks as much as possible so that the questions match their true ability.
Throughout the term, we will do our best to match homework to class based learning but where this is not possible, homework tasks will be based on fundamental skills which can be revised.
Reading:
Your child will come home each Friday with a colour-banded reading book. These books can only be changed each Friday, however they can be kept longer than a week if necessary.
PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO BRING THEIR READING BOOK TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY. THERE WILL NO LONGER BE A READING RECORD SENT HOME.
Times Tables:
The children will soon be given logins for TT Rockstars which is very popular online platform for practising times tables.
www.ttrockstars.com
This website has great activities to help your child learn, practise and enjoy times table facts in a fun and engaging way.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
The above website is also useful for practising times tables as well as mental addition, subtraction and division.
Spelling
In addition to their homework on Atom Prime, your child will be set fortnightly spellings which will be assessed in a non-formal way at the end of each fortnight. The idea being that we expect to see correct spellings in children's work, rather than in an independent spelling test.
Autumn 2 Spellings
Timetable of the week
PE Days
Children will need to PE kit on Monday and Thursday.
PE on Monday will now be outdoor, children can wear navy, plain tracksuit bottoms and tops over their St John's blue t-shirt.
PE on Thursday will be dance, children can wear their St John's blue t-shirt and blue shorts.