Tuesday, 24 September 2013

New Kestrel - Yr 3

Welcome to the new Kestrel - Yr 3!

We have been back at school for a for a few weeks now and have started to settle in.

The children have already been busy learning and you will start to see some photos of the activities we are doing appear on our blog.




The broad theme for this term is The Romans and where possible the subjects have been linked to this. Your help and enthusiasm in providing background knowledge and information to your child around this theme will be much appreciated.

Literacy– Information Texts, Dialogue and Plays and Narrative Stories
Maths   Counting, partitioning and calculating; Time and Understanding Shape.
Science – Solids and Liquids
PE  – Invasion Games, using netball based skills; and fitness.
Geography  – No main focus but is linked to History.
History   – The Romans
ICT – Combining words and graphics; and repeating patterns.
Art  – Roman artefacts.
DT  – Clocks
French   – Familiar greetings, numbers, months days and birthday.
RE   – Roman Gods/ Light as a symbol of faith
Music  - Pulse and Rhythm
PSHE   – New Beginnings

Homework - there will be no theme based homework this year but we do ask that you support and encourage your child to do the following:
 


Reading – at least 5 minutes every night. After your child reads to you, ask them simple questions about what they have just read to ensure they have understood it fully. Please feel free to write in any questions/comments you have in this diary and ensure you inform you child so that they can pass the diary onto us for viewing.

Spelling - Every Friday there will be a spelling test. Please assist you child with memorising the words and spelling patterns. The Look, Cover Write method may help. Ten spellings will be tested out of the list and out of order.

Times Tables - Your child will move through the 12 times tables after successfully completing the previous one. Times tables test may also include inverse calculations such as 24 ÷ 3 =) which helps assess children’s understanding of number.

I am looking forward to meeting you all at the parents evenings, please see the sheet on the classroom door to book a time.

Miss Adey