Week beginning 30th June 2025

What a week! Devon class have been super this week dealing with the heat - it was a lot of fun emptying our trays and filling them with water to dip our feet into!

For maths we have started our new mini topic of statistics - looking at pictograms and using a key to find out what the symbol means. We have continued to recap our timetable songs and we have a new song to help us with the 4 timestable. Link below - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAXwhIRUDc&list=RDZlAXwhIRUDc&start_radio=1

In English lessons, we have been writing senses poems about the dump that poor Edward to thrown away in. We watched a video of the dump and imagined what we might find there - slimy banana skins and birds circling. 

In computing we have been busy building with lego and then programming our lego to do something. This week we made fans - unfortunately they weren't enough for the heat we experienced this week - but we had lots of fun programming them and showed great perseverance when they didn't work.

In DT this week, we continued cutting wood to make the frame for our greenhouses. This was very exciting and a great new skill to learn. The children were fantastic at listening to the instructions to ensure no fingers were accidently sawn off!

In PSHE this week we started looking at how our body's change as we get older. The children were very mature and asked some excellent questions. We recapped the correct names for the different boy and girl body parts as well as how periods work and how they are completely natural. We also discussed how babies come from the joining of an egg and sperm and what happens when an egg doesn’t meet a sperm.

Our PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays so please make sure your child has a PE kit in school all week. PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL CHILDREN HAVE THE CORRECT TSHIRT FOR FRIDAYS SPORTS DAY. Unfortunately, Mrs Smith is unable to participate in Sports Day but we are very luck that Mrs Thomas will be joining Devon class for the afternoon. 

Please see below for the continents and colours that the children will be in for Sports Day on Friday 4th July.

A typical week in Devon 3: 

Home Learning

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

We recommend children in Year 3 read for at least 20 minutes a day.  Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Spelling

Spellings will be checked on Wednesdays. 

Blue group (Mrs Nash, Miss Owen & Mrs Charlwood)

disappear

disagree

dishonest

dishearten

disapprove

invisible

incomplete

incapable

incorrect

informal 

Red group (Mrs Whitmore) 

school

echo

chemist

chorus

ache

anchor  

Purple group (Mrs Thomas)

mother

brother

other

nothing  

Below is a list of the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4 (please see attachment).

The spelling strategies document below shows what strategies are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: