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Year 3 - Sycamore
Welcome To Our Year Three Class Page
Miss Gilleece & Mrs Malik
Welcome back - Spring 1
We hope you and your families enjoyed a restful Christmas break and we would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. We are looking forward to a busy and exciting Spring 1 half term ahead.
Our new school value for this half term is love, and we will be encouraging the children to demonstrate this through kindness, respect and care for one another. We are very proud of all the children’s achievements so far and can’t wait to see the progress they make as the year continues.
Please see below for this half term’s curriculum information. Don’t forget that our Instagram page is updated regularly, where you can see lots of the learning and experiences taking place in school. If you need to contact us, please email info@stjohnsrc.net.
Important dates this half term:
Wednesday 21st January - Parent Workshop - maths 9am
Wednesday 4th February - Parent Worship - reading 9am
Sunday 2nd February 2nd Sacramental Meeting
Tuesday 10th February - Safer Internet Day
Thursday 12th February PM - Young Voices Concert for Years 5 and 6
Thursday 12th February AM - House Celebration of the Word - theme of love
Friday 13th February - Break Up for Half Term
Curriculum
Please find the information for our core subjects in Spring 1 below:
English: We have already begun this term's text: Stone Age Boy. The children will learn how to write a sequence of events to follow the structure of the model story.
• Write an opening paragraph and further paragraphs for each stage.
• Create dialogue between characters that shows their relationship with each other.
• Use 3rd or 1st person consistently,
• Use tenses appropriately.
• Add historical detail to characters, setting and events.
Maths: In Maths, we will continue to work on multiplication and division in the first half of the term. Later in the term, we will move on to perimenter and length.
Religion:
Branch 3 - Galilee to Jerusalem
Science: Materials: Rocks and Soil
Humanities:
British History 2
Why did the Romans invade and settle in Britain?
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.
Timetable
Please note, children will need to PE kit on Monday and Thursday.
Monday - Outdoor games - navy tshirt, navy shorts or track suit bottoms, navy jumper/fleece (not school jumper) trainers
Thursday - Gymnastics - navy tshirt and navy shorts