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Year 3 - Sycamore
Welcome To Our Year Three Class Page
Miss Gilleece & Mrs Malik
Welcome to the summer term!
Welcome back to the final term of Year 3. We hope you all had a restful break!
We have a very exciting first half term ahead as the children prepare for their First Holy Communion, begin swimming lessons and look forward to our class trip to Tatton Park.
Please visit our class page to find important dates and details for the term ahead.
Important dates this half term:
Saturday 26th April Cherry's Holy Communion 12noon at St John's Church
Friday 2nd May Y3 trip to Tatton Park
Monday 5th May Bank holiday - school closed
Saturday 17th May Sycamore's Holy Communion 12noon at St John's Church
Monday 19th May Y3 Holy Communion party (in school)
Friday 23rd May Finish for 1/2 term
Curriculum
Please find the information for our core subjects in Summer 1 below:
English: We will begin the term with a new book: The Journey. This picture book will allow the children to explore their imaginations and develop their sentence structures. We will be working on improving the children's writing using adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions to show time, place and cause.
Maths: This half term, we will be finishing with Mass & Capacity, the children will learn about measuring, calculating, ordering and comparing in kg, g, ml and l. We will then move on to Fractions to develop the work we did last term. We will look more into adding and subtracting fractions as well as finding fractions of amounts. These are usually areas children find difficult and consolidating on times table knowledge will really help with their learning in this area.
Religion: This half term, we will really be focussing on the Sacrament of Holy Communion in class and helping the children prepare for their big day.
If you have any questions about the sacrament of Holy Communion, please contact Fr Anthony directly via the church phone number/email. If you have questions about your child's holy communion day, please get in touch with school.
Science: This half term we will continue learning all about Animals including humans. As part of the topic children will learn about skeletons and muscles. We will explore the links between these and the importance of a healthy diet and exercise.
Humanities: In the summer term we will begin our final history topic of Ancient Egyptians! this has always been a very popular topic which the children thoroughly enjoy. We will be linking our art projects to the topic too as well as our DT. The children will learn about the ancient gods as well as the ancient Egyptian way of life, culture and customs.
Homework
ATOM PRIME:
Maths and English tasks will continue to be set on Atom Prime this 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. Children will still have a week to complete homework.
Reading:
Your child will come home each Friday with a colour-banded reading book and a library 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 now have logins for TT Rockstars which is very popular 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.
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 Tuesdays and Thursday.
PE on Tuesday will be swimming and the children will need to bring a swimming costume/trunks and towel (preferably named) in a bag which can be taken on the coach to the swimming baths. A reminder that children should NOT be wearing any jewellery and hair should be tied back.
PE on Thursday will be outdoor games (tennis). Children will need an outdoor PE kit AND trainers! Girls should have a change of socks and not be doing PE in tights.