Week beginning 7th July 2025

It has been so lovely to be back with my wonderful Devon class, and what a week! 

This week we have made an Edible Roman Road, using rich tea biscuits, squirty cream, chocolate and crackers. The children had great fun smashing the biscuits up to make sand and smoothing out the cream to be our concrete. Our mouths watered with the melted chocolate for the mortar and the crackers topped our road off as the heavy stones. SO MUCH FUN!

For maths we continue to look at our mini topic of statistics - looking at collecting and representing data in tally charts, pictograms and bar charts. Some of us aren't fond of using a ruler for drawing our bar charts so this is something we need to work on!

In English lessons, we have been learning what a preposition is and how and where we use it in a sentence. We combined this with noun phrases to describe the location on our farms just like Edward did in the book.

In DT this week, we started sticking our cut pieces of wood together to build the frame of our greenhouses. These should be dry and ready for us to then wrap in bubblewrap next week!

Our PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays so please make sure your child has a PE kit in school all week.

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)

Unit 9: suffix –ion.

Education,

collection,

invention,

attraction,

celebration,

action,

exaggeration,

concentration,

location,

subtraction. 

Red group (Mrs Whitmore) 

action,

correction,

subtraction,

location,

invention   

Purple group (Mrs Smith)

swarm,

reward,

warm,

towards

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: