Term 3 week 1, WB 5/1/26

Happy New Year! It has been lovely to welcome the children back and hear all about their festive activities and family fun. 

We have begun reading our new text 'The Ice Palace' and have all enjoyed describing icy scenes and predicting how we think that the exciting story will unfold. 

In maths we are exploring and re-capping methods for multiplication and division, starting with multiplying and dividing by 10 and moving on to re-calling some methods for multiplying 2 digit numbers with 1 digit numbers. We will be using arrays, counting in numbers, repeated addition and other methods to support this learning. Please continue to use Times Tables Rockstars at home to support your child in this unit. 

We have all loved beginning to learn about rocks in Geography, exploring the different types of rocks and how they are formed. We will move on to looking at their uses and where they are found. 

Please see below new home learning tasks for this term. Any queries, please feel free to ask and we hope you enjoying sharing your child's learning with them exploring these tasks.

Please continue to encourage your child’s reading at home and add to their boom reader accounts whenever possible – your support truly makes a big difference to their confidence and progress. Please ensure that your child has their reading book in school every day. Thank you so much for all your support for your children's learning at school and at home. 

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

Please ensure that fully named PE kits are in school Monday to Friday. Please ensure also that your child has a named waterproof jacket or coat in school everyday. 

In year 3 fruit snacks are provided by parents, rather than school as in the lower years. Please send your child with a healthy snack that they can enjoy mid-morning. No nuts please.

A reminder also please that children do not need pencil cases, all their stationery is provided in school. Please also keep soft toys and other treasures at home. Thank you for your support with this.

Spellings

Our first spelling test of the term will be on Wednesday 14th January. The words listed below will not change until after that test.

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

Words beginning with a silent k

knew

knock

knot

knight

knit

knife

kneel

knee

Mrs Smith's group -

Words with the c sound spelt ch.

Chorus

Stomach

Echo

Chaos

School

Chemist

Anchor

Ache

Mrs Georgiades' Group

Words with the sh sound spelt ch.

Chalet

Chef

Chute

Machine

Chandelier

pistachio

Mrs Lambert's group 

bay

may

play

say

today

day

pay

way

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).