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 add and subtract in columns and then apply this knowledge to real life money problems. As well as this, we will be completing work on 2D shapes, using measures and fractions. 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. Our focus for most of the term will be writing a non-chronological report about the Roman soldiers. Also, we will also create some poetry about volcanoes and write a story that is similar to ’A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.’ 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.
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. We will send out a letter detailing further information about this trip nearer the time.
In our Geography lessons, we will learn all about Vesuvius and how volcanoes are made, explode and where they can be found in the World.
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
The children are very excited about collecting blackberries during our countryside ramble and then having to make a lovely blackberry and apple crumble.
COMPUTING
In year 3, we will be learning about e-safety.
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.