Term 3 – Week 5 (WB 2/2/26)

Thank you for all the support you are showing for home learning for your children. There has been a marked rise in the number of children using timestables rockstars at home since we introduced tournaments across year 3, thank you for embracing this enthusiasm and encouraging your children to use this site at home! We have also been impressed with the quality of research that goes into the home learning topic tasks each week. It has been lovely to see the children's enthusiasm for their learning and eagerness to share what they have been researching at home. 

In English this week, we have continued to read and understand our text 'The Ice Palace', a book we have all really loved delving in to this term! This week we are looking at question writing and have used aspects of the story to really explore beyond the text to think of questions to ask of the characters.

In Maths we have been  exploring measures of various lengths, beginning with centimetres and metres and moving on to kilometres. We will investigate length, width and then perimeter and how to measure these.

In Geography this week we will be investigating volcanoes further, a topic that the children love and have lots of knowledge of to share!

On Friday afternoon we now enjoy not only our class trumpet lesson, but also a 'linked learning' session in class, where the children explore with our guidance an aspect of their learning that they are enjoying. Last week we looked at different forces used and needed to create paper aeroplanes, helicopters and origami shapes. The class loved this activity and enjoyed themselves experimenting with different folds, tears and weights on their creations to alter their flights and descents.

Please see below for the updated home learning tasks for this term. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. We hope you enjoy sharing and exploring these learning activities with your child at home.

Finally, please continue to support your child with regular reading at home and by updating their Boom Reader account whenever possible. Your support makes a real difference to their confidence and progress. Please also ensure your child brings their reading book into school every day. Please also follow this link https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864 to access quizzes when your child finishes a book. They will know their login details for this. 

Finally, we are continuing to learn our times tables with some fun songs! Practising for just 15 minutes a week on the recommended website will make a huge difference in building strong multiplication and division skills, which are essential throughout Key Stage 2 and beyond. We have been learning our eight timetables - here is our new song for you to practise at home - 

Eight Times Table Song (Cover of All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor)

3 Times Tables - Have Fun Learning!

4 Times table song (A Whole New World from Disney's Aladdin)

4 Times Table Song (APT be Rosé and Bruno Mars)

Counting By Sixes Song

7 Times Table Song | Skip Counting by 7 Song with Multiplication

Seven Times Table Song (Cups by Anna Kendrick Cover) with Classroom Instruments

The 12 Times Table Song | Skip Counting by 12 for Kids

Spellings

Our next spelling test of the term will be on Wednesday 4th February for Mrs Hughes/Mr Grimes/Mrs Strudwick and Mrs Lamberts groups and Wednesday 11th February for Mrs Smith and Mrs Georgiades' group. The words listed below will not change until after that test.

Mrs Hughes' /Mr Grimes'/ Mrs Strudwick's groups

stop

stopping

shop

shopping

chat

chatting

run

running

begin

beginning

Mrs Smith's group -

Adding the suffix -ion.

action

celebration

education

subtraction

invention

collection

location

injection

invention

Mrs Georgiades' Group

Adding the suffix -ion.

action

celebration

education

subtraction

invention

collection

location

injection

invention

Mrs Lambert's group 

Our sound this week is ow

blow

snow

flow

mow

throw

arrow

bow

own

Thank you for your continued support!

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.  
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see below. 
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday. 
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group. 

L3 Usual weekly timetable (please note that there may be changes to this at times).