Term 4 Week 3

WB: 09.03.26

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our Mother’s Day Breakfast. It was so lovely to welcome so many of you into the classroom, and we hope you enjoyed spending time with us and even learned something new too!

This week in English, we have been learning about dialogue and how to use speech marks correctly in our writing. We explored how speech marks show when a character is speaking and practised placing them in the correct position within a sentence.

The children then used this knowledge to write their own short conversations between Oliver, Cliff, and a new character called Stacey De Lacey. They thought carefully about what each character might say and worked on punctuating their speech correctly using speech marks. We also discussed how dialogue can help bring characters to life and make a story more interesting for the reader.

In Maths, we have started a new unit on mass and capacity. The children have begun exploring how to read scales on a number line, helping them understand how measurements increase and how to estimate values in between numbers. We have been focusing on the units grams (g) and kilograms (kg) and discussing when each unit might be used in everyday life.

The children have also been practising reading different scales and thinking carefully about the intervals between numbers. To help with this, we have been using some key number facts, such as knowing that half of 100 is 50 and half of 50 is 25. This knowledge is very useful when reading scales, as it helps the children work out values that sit halfway between numbers and improves their accuracy when measuring.

In Science, we have been learning about magnetic fields and how magnets have an invisible force around them that can attract certain materials.

To help us understand this, we carried out an investigation using iron filings. We placed magnets under a sheet of paper and sprinkled the filings on top. The iron filings moved into patterns, showing the shape of the magnetic field around the magnet.

We also noticed that more filings gathered at the ends of the magnet, called the poles, helping the children understand that the magnetic force is strongest at these points.

In Geography and our linked learning, we have been learning about tsunamis and how they are caused by underwater earthquakes or movements of the Earth’s crust. We explored how tsunami waves travel across the ocean and how, when they reach shallow water near land, they slow down and grow taller, which can lead to flooding and damage.

In our linked learning, we also took some trays outside and used whiteboards and balls to model how tsunami waves move and to demonstrate the impact they can have when they reach land.

Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support with your child’s learning – it really does make a difference and is greatly appreciated.

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. 

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 practising our 11 times table. This song is a bit fast and has some tricky, tongue-twisting parts, but the children are really enjoying it and having fun while learning - 

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

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

Nine Times Table Song (90's Song Mashup)

9 Times Table Song (cover of Takedown by Huntrix from K Pop Demon Hunters) - YouTube

11 Times Table Song | Skip Counting the Multiples of 11

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

S3 Usual weekly timetable (please note that there may be changes to this at times).

The Year 3 Team