Welcome to Elm Class!

Welcome to Elm Class, home to our wonderful Year 3 children. We are looking forward to welcome the children back to school, and have some really exciting areas of learning to delve into this year. 

 

Our class teacher is Miss Reilly, and we are very lucky to be supported in our learning by Mrs Bond and Mrs Bowen.

 

English

We will be studying two books during this half term in our English lessons. We will first look at "The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish" by Chloe Savage. The children will explore formal letter writing and narrative writing. We will then explore "Animal Giants" by Miles Kelly, to understand the purpose of non-fiction texts. We will then structure and write our own non-fiction text to inform the reader about our own creatures!

 

We will develop our reading and writing skills through the use of VIPERS:

Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explanation
Retrieval
Summary
Using VIPERS helps us to examine the techniques used by the author, delve into the meaning behind words and replicate aspects in our own writing. 

 

Maths

In the Spring term, Year 3 will continue to focus on place value of numbers up to 1000, including written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using these numbers. We will also look at developing mental calculation strategies for similar questions. Children will explore shape and measurement, focusing on understanding and using standard units of length in various practical and mathematical contexts. During the Spring term, children are introduced to fractions and look at finding fractions of amounts.

 

Science

In Science, we are studying forces and will be carrying out a range of experiments to understand how forces and friction work.

 

Geography

In our Geography lessons, we will be exploring 'Our World' by learning to interpret maps, globes and atlases. 

 

Music

This half term, Year 3 will be focusing on music by Bob Marley.

 

MFL

The children will build on their initial language acquisition by learning some basic French phonics phonemes.

 

Art 

In our Art lessons, we are focusing on developing our drawing, shading and tone.

 

Computing

In our Computing lessons this half term, the children will explore how emails work.

 

P.E.

This year, children will have two PE sessions a week. This half term, our outdoor PE session will be in Forest School on a Tuesday afternoon. Our indoor gymnastics session will be Dance on a Thursday. We will also have an additional session on a Tuesday morning with the LFC Foundation, with a focus on Teamwork.

 

R.E.

In this half term, our question is "Why is Jesus inspiring to some people?"

 

SMSC

We love exploring the units on 1Decision. They are giving the children a good insight into the world and offering advice on how to conduct themselves as good and honest citizens, whilst keeping themselves safe at all times. We are learning about making the right choice and becoming responsible for their actions. 

 

Thank you for your continued support,

 

Miss Reilly 

 

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