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Dear all, I hope you all had a restful Easter break and enjoyed time spent with family and friends. Welcome back to school for our final two terms! We have got an exciting couple of terms ahead of us and I am delighted to be back with the children. In terms 5 and 6 we will be studying the book ‘The Abominables’ by Eva Ibbotson. This is quite the lengthy book hence our focus on it for both terms. The book fits in nicely with our theme of Mountains and offers lots of wonderful opportunities for creative writing including another tackle at poetry. We will also be learning how to write an effective persuasive leaflet to encourage people to protect the yeti’s in the story as well as having a go at writing our own play scripts! In term 5, we will be continuing our work on forces and magnets. This starts off with our exciting friction experiment, which the children planned before the Easter holidays. We will the move our focus onto magnets, where we will be identifying what a magnet actually is and investigate different magnetic and non-magnetic materials. Following this, class 3 will be looking at different metals how magnets attract and repel. In term 6, our topic is plants. We will spend time dissecting plants in order to identify and describe different parts of plants. Class 3 will also learn about the life cycle of a plant, how a plant grows and stem and water transportation. In term 5, we will be starting off by exploring pottery and clay handling. Children will get the opportunity to practice different clay handling techniques as well as design their own clay tile. Following this, children will create their own torn tissue mountain scene based on pictures of different mountains across the world. In term 6, Children will be constructing their own yeti proof shelters. In term 5 we will be working with fractions, making sure we can recognise and find a half, quarter and third as well as working with equivalent fractions and adding and subtracting fractions. We will then be moving our learning onto time, with a focus on how we measure time using months, years, days, hours, minutes and seconds. We will also focus on how to read a 24-hour clock and investigate how to solve problems using time. Parents can help massively here, by drawing their child’s attention to clocks around the house and helping them tell the time as often as possible please. In term 6, we will be learning about properties of shapes, including how to recognise and describe both 2-D and 3-D shapes as well as comparing angles. We will then move onto mass and capacity, where we will recap our year 2 knowledge on how we compare mass and volume. This will then be followed by investigating how we measure mass and capacity and how we can add and subtract. This will be a very practical maths topic where children will take part in lots of fun and engaging activities to support their understanding! Our piece of focus music for term 5 will be ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’. Children will get the opportunity to listen and appreciate the piece of music, identify the musical instruments and explore what the piece of music is describing. Class 3 will also have a music synaesthesia session where they will be using their art skills to interpret different pieces of music that are about mountains. In French, children will be learning how to say the name of different places including countries as well as focussing on the alphabet. Following this, children will use their knowledge to talk about where they live. We will be continuing our work with our superhero spelling scheme. In the final term of superhero spellings, there is a focus on using apostrophes to show possession and suffixes (ful and less). The outline of the weekly spellings can be found stuck into your child’s homework book as well as on class 3’s page on the school website. Children are expected to practise their weekly spellings alongside their homework and will be tested on their spellings every Friday morning. In term 5 we will be working with fractions, making sure we can recognise and find a half, quarter and third as well as working with equivalent fractions and adding and subtracting fractions. We will then be moving our learning onto time, with a focus on how we measure time using months, years, days, hours, minutes and seconds. We will also focus on how to read a 24-hour clock and investigate how to solve problems using time. Parents can help massively here, by drawing their child’s attention to clocks around the house and helping them tell the time as often as possible please. In term 6, we will be learning about properties of shapes, including how to recognise and describe both 2-D and 3-D shapes as well as comparing angles. We will then move onto mass and capacity, where we will recap our year 2 knowledge on how we compare mass and volume. This will then be followed by investigating how we measure mass and capacity and how we can add and subtract. This will be a very practical maths topic where children will take part in lots of fun and engaging activities to support their understanding! Our first enquiry question in our summer term is ‘What kind of world would Jesus want?’ We will be thinking about how Jesus teaches others how to live and does Jesus show love and forgiveness to all, by using examples from the Bible and modern day experiences from our surrounding environment. We will then move onto thinking about ‘How and why do people try to make the world a better place?’ by thinking about different influential people, religions and charities who help to nurture our world. We kick off our summer term study of mountains by locating different mountains and mountain ranges across the world. We will then be learning about different mountain features and how mountains are formed. Following this, we will be looking at the incredible true story of Edmund Hillary’s and Tenzing Norgay’s Everest expedition. We will put ourselves the explorers’ shoes and investigate their journey. Class 3 will finish off the topic focusing on map reading and map drawing. Our summer term focus is all about learning and understanding the changes in our body as we begin to get older, as well as relationships. In term 5, we will be working on our Microsoft programming skills by designing our own PowerPoint presentations. We will focus on how to import images, slide transitions and formatting text. In term 6, children will have a go at programming using scratch as well as learning about how to be safe online and using online resources safely. In the summer term, children will be taking part in net and ball games, athletics and striking and fielding games Our PE lessons are on Tuesday and Thursdays, so please make sure children have their full kits. Now we are in the summer term, the children will need to wear shorts. Your children are encouraged to be independent with choosing a reading book to read at home and changing their book when finished. We expect children to read every night, even if it is only for a short while. Please continue to record all reading in their Reading Records. (Small comments such as ‘Read well’ or ‘Confused with word…’ would be useful.) The Reading Records will be stamped once a page is completed. Children will receive a certificate in assembly when they fill up their Reading Record. We will be checking children’s Reading Records once a week, so please do make sure it is in their schoolbags on Tuesday Mornings. The highest number of reading records we have had on a Tuesday is 11 out of a possible 21, we would love to have a full set. Whilst reading with your child, it would be beneficial to ask them some questions about the text or to find a key word they have read. This supports their reading comprehension skills which supports their whole class reading sessions. Homework is to be completed once a week and children will be able to choose a piece of homework from a Homework menu. The orange Homework books will be handed out to children to take home on a Wednesday afternoon and will be expected back in school on a Monday morning. Please make sure you ask your child about their homework for the week and are working with them to complete it. As a school we are now celebrating children’s times table achievements in gold book assembly. TT rockstar logins are stuck in the front of your child’s homework book. The times tables class 3 are expected to be confident with are their 3, 4 and 8 times tables by the end of the year. Mr Boorman is checking children’s progress weekly so it would great to see class 3 earning certificates in gold book assembly to display all their hard work on their times tables this year! Please make sure children’s names are on their uniform so that we know exactly who owns what! In Class 3, unless your child is wearing a summer dress, children are expected to wear ties with their uniform. Please make sure your child has a tie and that it is named. Please make sure your child’s water bottle is clearly named and that they bring them home with them every day. They have plenty of opportunities to drink during the day and are also encouraged to use the school water fountain at break and lunchtime. Children are also encouraged to use the toilet at break and lunchtime, and may naturally use the toilet during class time if genuinely desperate. Please do come up and chat at the end of the day or email me if you have any questions J Many thanks, Miss RietdykTerm 5 & 6 Newsletter – Class 3
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Term 5 & 6 Newsletter – Class 3
Dear all,
I hope you all had a restful Easter break and enjoyed time spent with family and friends. Welcome back to school for our final two terms! We have got an exciting couple of terms ahead of us and I am delighted to be back with the children.
