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Year 3 - Sycamore
Welcome To Our Year Three Class Page
Miss Gilleece & Mrs Malik
Welcome to the summer term!
A warm welcome back to the final term of Year Three. We hope you and your families have enjoyed a lovely half-term break.
This is a busy final term which includes multi-faith week, sports week and the Y3 Camp! Please take time to look at Instagram where we show learning and experiences taking place. Please do not hesitate to contact us on info@stjohnsrc.net should you have any queries.
Our school value this half term is 'JOY' so we are looking for children to demonstrate this value throughout the next few weeks. With so many opportunities, we can't wait to see their light shine!
Important dates this half term:
Wednesday 11th June Own clothes day to support the Spanish Exchange
Friday 20th June Y3 Campy on the field
Mon 30 - 4th July Sports Week
Mon 30 - 4th July Multi faith week (Hinduism)
Wednesday 9th July Stay and pray (more info to follow)
Wednesday 9th July Music Concert (9.30am)
Thursday 24th July End of year
Curriculum
Please find the information for our core subjects in Summer 2 below:
English: Our final text this year will be Zeraffa Giraffa. The text is another narrative that will explore persuasive writing. This term the children will also have an opportunity to take part in Loreto High School's annual poetry event.
Maths: As we approach the end of the year, we will cover Shape, Statistics and Time. These are usually topics which will incorporate all of the children's previous learning but are also topics which children enjoy. Practising the use of money and time in everyday living will help the children immensely this term.
Religion:
In Religion, we will be covering the theme of Pentecost and exploring how to be followers of Jesus now that we have made our First Holy Communion. We will look at God's Helper, the Holy Spirit, and how the Holy Spirit can help us in our lives.
During this term, we will also be learning about some of the foundations of Hinduism as part of our multi-faith week. In previous years, this has included a trip to the Gita Bhavan hindu temple, but this is yet to be confirmed for 2025.
Science: The children have already shown a keen interest in our final topic this year: Rocks. During the topic we will explore the different types of rock and how they are formed as well as touching upon soils and fossils.
Humanities: In the summer term we will continue with our final history topic of Ancient Egyptians! The children are really enjoying learning 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.
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 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 (rounders). Children will need an outdoor PE kit AND trainers! Girls should have a change of socks and not be doing PE in tights.