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Year 3 - Sycamore
Welcome To Our Year Three Class Page
Miss Gilleece & Mrs Malik
Welcome to Spring2
We are looking forward to a new and very busy half term which will lead us to Easter. The children will be preparing for their class assembly as well as beginning preparations for the First Holy Communion (Summer Term). In addition, we will be celebrating St Patrick's Day with a trip to Manchester's Irish Festival at Wythenshawe forum; Easter - through a Easter Liturgy for parents and the community AND celebrating all the children's achievements in Parents Evening!
The core value for this half term is "love" and this will run through all our work and play over the next 6 weeks. The children will be encouraged to think about what love means to them and how they can celebrate this as well as show others love both in school and at home.
Please note: Miss Gilleece will be with the class Monday - Wednesday each week.
Mrs Malik will be with the class Wednesday - Friday each week
Important dates this half term:
Wednesday 5th March Class Assembly 9.30 (refreshments served in the chapel from 9am)
Thursday 6th March World Book Day
Wednesday 12th March Irish Festival at Wythenshawe Forum
Wednesday 19th March St Patrick's Celebrations (in school)
Wednesday 26th March Parents' Evening
Wednesday 5th April KS2 Easter Liturgy 2pm at St John's Church
Friday 7th April Finish for Easter break
Curriculum
Please find the information for our core subjects in Spring 2 below:
English: Big Blue Whale is the book that we will be covering in English. The children will work on non-narrative writing and, by the end of the unit, create information leaflets
Maths: This half term, we will begin a new topic on Fractions before finishing with Mass & Capacity. During the Fractions topic, children will learn to order and compare fractions with the same numerator and different numerators. They will also look at equivalence. When looking at Mass & Capacity, the children will learn about measuring, calculating, ordering and comparing in kg, g, ml and l.
Religion: This half term, the children will not only be preparing for Easter but we will explore the links between events such as The Last Supper with the modern day mass and holy communion. We will be using Religion lessons to cover both Lent (Curriculum RE) and Holy Communion (Heart speaks to heart).
Science: This half term we will be learning all about Animals including humans. As part of the topic children will learn about diet, skeletons and muscles. We will explore the links between these and the importance of a healthy diet and exercise.
Humanities: We will be continuing with our History topic on "The Stone Age to Iron Age" . The children are very much enjoying this topic and look forward to sharing their learning with you at their class assembly.
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.
Spelling
In addition, you 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.
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.
ATOM PRIME:
From now onwards, Maths AND English homework will be set on Atom Prime as we no longer have access to MyMaths.
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.
Homework tasks will commence from Week 2
Timetable
Please note, children will need to PE kit on Tuesdays and Thursday.
PE on Tuesday will be outdoor, children can wear navy, plain tracksuit bottoms and tops over their St John's blue t-shirt.
PE on Thursday will be gymnastics, children can wear their St John's blue t-shirt and blue shorts. Children should NOT be wearing tracksuit bottoms or footwear for gymanstics for health and safety reasons