Welcome To Our Year Three Class Page
Miss Gilleece & Mrs Malik
Welcome to Spring 2
We have a short but busy few weeks ahead as we prepare for Holy Week and the Easter break. term ahead as we move through the year to Easter. We look forward to continuing our Sacramental journey, St Patrick's Day, World Book Day, Parents Evening and our Easter Service.
The value for this half term is "kindness" and we will be encouraging the children to think about acts of kindness they can carry out as they prepare for Easter.
We will do our best as staff to capture the children's amazing learning and achievements and share these with you via the school Twitter pages as well as updating you on key curriculum and timetable changes here on this class page.
NB. Miss Gilleece will be in class Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs Malik will be in class Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Important dates this half term:
Sunday 3rd March - Sacramental meeting 10.45 (at school)
Whole school mass 12 noon
Thursday 7th Match - World Book Day
Monday 11th March - Irish Festival Trip
Wednesday 13th March - St Patrick's Day Concert 9.30
Thursday 14th March - Comedy Drama Show 2.30 (tbc)
Wednesday 20th March - Parents' Evening
Tuesday 26th March - KS2 Easter Litugry after 10am Mass (at church)
Thursday 28th March - Finish for Easter 3.30
Please note, children will need to bring their PE kits into school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Dance/Gym kit must include navy shorts and navy tshirt - not tracksuit bottoms.
Curriculum
Please find the information for our core subjects in Spring 2 below:
English: We will continue developing our narrative work this half term using the text Rhythm of the Rain. We will then explore poetry through a unit on imagery.
Maths: This half term, we will begin with a unit on length and perimeter. We will then hopefully begin our topic on Fractions.
Religion: We will peprare for Easter this half term by thinking about listening and sharing. Our value of kindness will help us think about how we treat others as we prepare for Holy Week.
Science: In Science we will commence a unit on Animals including humans. During the topic we will look at skeletons and muscle groups after a quick recap of food groups and nutrition.
Humanities: We will continue learning about UK Geography including both human and physical characteristics of the country we live in.
Homework
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.
The children should also be now bringing home a library book (book of choice) which they have chosen to read for pleasure. This book might not be pitched at your child's current reading age but the aim is to encourage the children to find enjoyment in reading through shared stories. Please share the library book at home and even read to your child if necessary, so they can enjoy the story. We aim to visit the library to change these books once a week.
PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD TO BRING BOTH BOOKS ALONG WITH THEIR READING JOURNAL TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY.
Spelling:
We will continue to send home weekly spellings based on a spelling rule each week.
The first 5 spellings follow a rule which we will explore in class. The second half of the spellings are Year 3/4 Statutory spellings, which the children are expected to use and spell correctly by the end of Year 4.
Note, in class we are focussing on spelling patterns and high frequency/sight words.
English:
English will continue to be set on Atom Prime and will develop children's spelling, grammar and comprehension.
If you have any queries about this or need help accessing it, please let us know via info@stjohnsrc.net. Please note that Atom Prime homework will be set on Mondays and will be live until midnight the following Sunday.
The children's log in details should be stuck into the inside of their purple spelling journals.
Maths:
We will continue to set Maths homework using MyMaths this half term. If you are unsure of your child's login details. Please ask your child's class teacher.
Homework will be set on Mondays and will be available to complete until Sunday night.
Times Tables:
The children now have logins for TT Rockstars which is very popular platform for practising times tables. The logins were stuck into the front of the purple books last half term, please let us know if you need these sending home again.
www.ttrockstars.com