Mr Gillard

PE Days will be Wednesday and Friday.

Children must come dressed in PE kit on these days. Please ensure that jogging trousers / leggings and hoodies are worn in case of chilly weather. Earrings should be removed, or covered with tape if this is not possible. Children may wear shorts underneath.

Home Learning Menu:

Computing: Try the assigned "Tick-Tock" challenge, following on from our work using timers. (10 mins)

English: Use Spelling Shed (log in information is in your reading log) to work on your '-sure' word list. (10 mins)

Maths: Complete the next workout in your new times table books! Remember to bring them in on Friday for checking. (10 mins)

Class reader: Grimwood by Nadia Shireen

What is next for the foxes? Will Pamela's latest attack change how people feel about her?

Picture news:

4.10.24 - Perfect Poets!

This week we have completed our wonderful animal acrostics, inspired by the Kingfisher poem from The Lost Words. I was so proud of the children's resilience, especially those who confessed to me that they weren't sure that they could write poetry before they began! In maths, we have begun our unit on addition and subtraction skills and are on our journey to mastery of the fearsome column method! We also managed to find a (brief!) spell of sunshine to go outside and sketch parts of our school building, thinking about what structures would interest Keith Haring and his icons. Well done Year 3!

27.9.24 - Crafty Kingfishers and Goodbye to Grimwood!

This week, Year 3 have completed their Black Hat epics! It was great to see how the children deployed their developing editing skills to correct and improve their writing as they finished. While our writing stamina may still be developing, the children thoroughly enjoyed their pieces and were so positive about moving on to their next unit on the poem Kingfisher. We also had a super art lesson where children had their first go at making their own Keith Haring artwork. They were all excited to have another try at home too! At the end of the week, we finished our first class reader: Grimwood. We're excited to start a new story soon!

20.9.24 - Colourful Creatures and Tricky Tables

This week, Year 3 have continued their Black Hat adventures, designing storyboards and creating their own strange creatures to appear from the hat. What happens when a rainbow elephant or a translucent gorilla try to appear out of the mysterious hat? I can't wait to find out when we begin our own versions of the story! In other areas, we have continued our place value journey in maths, created challenging tables to organise results of science experiments and also had time to explore our in-class gallery of Keith Haring artwork and discuss the moral dilemmas of art vs. crime by looking at collections of street art. Wow! Our highlight of the week was seeing our faces as we did our 'scrunch and stretch' warm ups for singing in the music and drama room.

13.9.24 - Woodland Wanderers and Wordsmiths!

This week, Year 3 have begun working on the story of The Black Hat. We listened to unusual music and imagined going on a journey through a creepy forest! We then thought of all the interesting vocabulary that we could use to describe the character on their journey. We have also begun our White Rose Maths books, learning about how to represent values in hundreds, tens and ones. Well done Year 3!

6.9.24 - Welcome Back!

Thank you for a great first week Year 3! We have been busy learning our new routines and expectations, creating class charters and (naturally) lots and lots of reading! We have also played maths games every day to reactivate those mathematical brains after a long, lazy holiday! I am super proud of how we have started. Please get a good rest this weekend and be ready for even more next week!

Useful websites:

                      Purple Mash                    Spelling Shed                     BBC Bitesize                 Times Table Songs - 2,5,10  3,6,7,8,9,11,12