Our Year 3 children are taught in Hare Moonwood Class by Mrs Reed and our teaching assistant is Mrs Waters.
Moonwood was a talking hare who lived in the sixth century, during the Age of Conquest. He lived under the Great Waterfall in the west of Narnia. His hearing was so sensitive, that he could hear a whispered conversation in Cair Paravel above the roar of the waterfall. You can read about Moonwood in the book, 'The Last Battle'.
Hare Moonwood Class
What we do:
MATHS
The class will start to learn how to multiply by 10 and 100 and then apply this knowledge to real life money problems. As well as this, we will be completing work on 2D and 3D shapes, adding perimeters and finding out about Roman numerals. We will continue the focus on improving mental calculations and this happens every day within the maths lessons. It is really important that your child can recall their times tables rapidly so please help your child to practise these at home.
LITERACY
Our Year 3 literacy studies will combine word, sentence and text level work. I am particularly keen to highlight our use of the VCOP principles—Vocabulary, Conjunctions, Openers and Punctuation - to help improve the children’s work and encourage them to develop their personal writing. In Hare Moonwood Class, we be writing some Remembrance poems, a recount of our trip to the Corinium Museum, letters and a Christmas quest story. During SPAG lessons, the children will learn to use apostrophes, the past tense and speech punctuation.
HISTORY and GEOGRAPHY
Our topic work this term will involve delving through history to explore the life and times of the Ancient Romans and their legacy. We are hoping to go to the Corinium Museum in Cirencester to experience all of the interactive displays so that the children can develop their knowledge further. Also during the trip, they will see how mosaics were made and get an opportunity to play some Roman games. Using various methods, the Year 3 children will carry out independent research into the daily life of a Roman child and then learn to write a letter to a friend describing their home, games, schooling and food.
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
Additionally, after tasting a variety of wraps and sandwiches and discussing the different flavours and textures, we will create some healthy sandwiches which we will also grade on appearance, taste and texture too.
COMPUTING
In year 3, we will be learning about coding and how to use Word and Publisher.
SCIENCE
We will be studying the different types of sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks. The children will be able to handle fossils too.
What the children say:
What the children say:
I really enjoy being in year 3 because we do more challenging maths.
It's fun and we have a very good teacher. I enjoy being in class.
I enjoy being in year 3 because the work is harder and more of a challenge.
I like the stuff we do in year 3, especially literacy, maths and science.
We enjoyed the Dress Up and Dance day and performing a show to our parents.