Our Year 3 children are taught in Hare Moonwood Class by Mrs Reed, Mrs Douglas and Mrs Amey. We also have several teaching assistants: Mrs Paffley, Mrs Perry and Mrs Thomas.
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
In Maths, we concentrate on learning the times tables and the related division facts as well as covering the rest of the maths curriculum.
LITERACY
In Literacy, the emphasis is on learning to recognise the features of different genres of writing and being able to use these in our own writing. Where possible, our texts are linked to our topic. This term, we will be using ‘The Little Hen and the Great War’, 'Finding Winnie' and a series of non-fiction books on World War 1. An important feature of our daily Literacy sessions is our spelling, punctuation and grammar lessons.
HISTORY
WORLD WAR 1
Topic work is fun, interesting and varied. This term our topic in year 3 is World War 1. They will be taught through drama, music, dance and personal research. The Year 3 pupils will enjoy using the internet, books, music, art and artefacts to find out about the past. They will study: the technology, communications, weapons, medicines, air raids, the sinking of the Lusitania and the causes of the World War 1.
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
We are looking forward to foraging for blackberries and apples in our local environment. We can’t wait to make our delicious crumble in our Design and Technology lessons.
ART
ARCHITECTURE
During art lessons, we will find out about an architect’s job. In particular, we will study some of the amazing buildings designed by Zaha Hadid and all of the awards she won because of her talent in design. Then, we will sketch some of the buildings that have been built through the centuries. Finally, we will go on to creating, modifying and evaluating our own buildings.
COMPUTING
In year 3, we will have an opportunity to study e-safety and to program a Bluebot using our ipads.
RE
In R. E., we will be looking at the Creation story in the Bible and discussing Christian beliefs.
PSCHE
We are going to use the book called ‘The Huge Bag of Worries’ to stimulate a discussion about dealing with worries and also learn about how to be good learners, listeners and friends during our PSCHE sessions.
FRENCH
We will be expanding our knowledge of French by learning French greetings, days of the week, days of the week and months, fruit and vegetables, food and body parts.
The transition from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 is an important step in children’s primary education. They learn to be much more independent and take responsibility for organising themselves and their belongings.
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.