Gloucestershire

Timetable

This is a typical week in Gloucestershire 3. Our timetable can change each week as we often have special events or exciting learning opportunities which will change a typical school day.  

Our week in Gloucestershire 3

This week, we have delved further into Oliver's world in our class text 'Oliver and the Seawigs'. We have thought about the thoughts and feelings of the different characters in the text when major life events happen to them. We used this to create a diary entry in role as Iris. Children have continued to use a range of sentence types (commands, statements, questions and exclamations) and used punctuation to correctly mark the end of each sentence. 

In maths, we have been exploring the concept of 'perimeter' which is the measurement of the length of the outline of the shape. Children have been becoming more confident with finding missing values, solving problems and accurately adding 3 or more numbers together. 

In geography, we have learnt that tsunamis are giant waves or series of waves caused by a huge earthquake or volcanic eruption under the ocean. We also explored the destruction that tsunamis can cause to the local environment and to people's lives. 

In science, we used magnets to explore which metals are magnetic. We discovered that many metals are alloys which mean they are a mixture of more than one metal and that some metals have stronger magnetic properties than others. 

Home Learning

Spelling

We check the children’s knowledge of the spellings on either Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. 

Orange Group: 

watch

wander

squash

work

world

warm 

toward

television

treasure

usual

Blue Group: 

sure

special

sugar

wash

watch

squash

warm

squad

chef

machine

Green Group: 

again

another

back

boy

because

been 

brother

by

call

called

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reader Reading Book to and from school and home each day. Pupils are asked to change their book when it is finished using the guidance and support provided by the teaching team within the class. 

Children in Year 3 should be reading 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.

Click here for more information about how our school uses Boom Reader. 

Maths fluency

We will be checking the children’s knowledge of times tables on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

Children have been told whether they are practising the 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, 4s or 8s. 

Practise your timestables using the link below or make some timestable cards at home. 

Grammar and Punctuation

Home Learning folders will come home each Thursday and need to be returned the following Tuesday. 

Please complete the Grammar and Punctuation task which was sent home with you in your folder. If you need another copy, your task can be found below. 

Topic task

Please see the video below:

Music

Children have recently been given a copy of their Music Knowledge Organiser; you can also download a PDF copy (attached).

To compliment class work and further develop musical knowledge and skills, children should be discussing their Knowledge Organiser at home and talking about the music they are listening to in school and at home. Miss Garrioch (our specialist music teacher) suggests that across the week, children spend about 30 minutes on this - that could just be 5 minutes a day listening to a song on the car radio and using musical vocabulary to comment on pitch, rhythm and the genre of music. Knowledge Organisers summarise key music curriculum information, including musical terms, technical definitions as well as topic specific content. 

Please ask your child what they're learning about this week in music and help them remember 1 or 2 related facts from the Knowledge Organiser. You could turn this into a family game, quizzing each other on what you've discussed. Support at home will be a massive help and aid children's learning and musical knowledge. 

At the start of each music lesson, children will share what they've discussed at home and will talk about their favourite song or piece of music and make links to their musical knowledge. 

At the end of each short term, there will be quizzes (based on the Knowledge Organiser) in class as part of our ongoing assessment in music.