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 divide using formal written methods and then apply this knowledge to real life problems. As well as this, we will be finding out about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. 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
During our Literacy lessons, they will watch an extract from Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Inventions and will learn to explain how the Snoozatron works. These skills will then be developed so that they can use technical language to explain how their own invention works and the water cycle. Afterwards, they will use a variety of media to advertise their product and develop their vocabulary when describing riverside locations.
GEOGRAPHY
Rivers
They will be finding out about the key features of rivers, where they are found in the World and they will explain how the water cycle works. In Year 3, the children will use maps, atlases and the internet to carry out research into the importance of rivers for the local people and animals.
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
Pneumatics
In Design and Technology, they will be finding out all about pneumatics and how they work. During the lessons, they will design and make a river monster that will have moving parts that are controlled using pneumatics.
COMPUTING
In year 3, we will be learning about how to advertise a product by creating adverts that are recorded on the ipad and using powerpoint and Publisher for a more multi-media approach.
SCIENCE
Hare Moonwood will investigate how the different poles on the magnets react to each other and how a magnetic force can be used to move iron fillings and other metal items.
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.