Welcome to Sharks class!

Class teacher: Miss Howsam       TA: Miss Evans

Key Information

Spring 1

We are looking forward to welcoming the children back after the Christmas holidays. Below is the key information you will need:

Sharks will continue to have forest school on alternate Tuesdays. The kit for this includes a change of footwear (preferably wellies), and a complete change of clothes that fully cover arms and legs. The dates for Forest school are:

14/01/25 – Sharks

28/01/25 – Sharks

11/02/25 – Sharks

Sharks will be swimming on a Monday, so they will need their swimming kits on this day. 

Swimming kit should include swimming shorts or swimming costume (no bikinis), a swimming hat, and a towel. If you would like your child to wear goggles, we will need a written permission letter or email.  PE kit should include a white top, black tracksuit and trainers. The children may be inside or outside for PE. 

For PE, swimming and Forest School, earrings must be removed before the school day and hair needs to be tied back. School staff are no longer permitted to remove earrings, and tape cannot be used to cover them. Children will not be able to participate with earrings in.  

*REMINDER*  Please remember to name all jumpers/coats etc, we have a lot of lost property that is not named, so we cannot return it to the correct child. If you are missing any items that were not named, please ask to look in our lost property tub. 

Spring 1 curriculum

We are looking forward to another exciting half term in Year 3. Below you can see an insight into our learning adventures planned for Spring 1!

In Maths, we will be wrapping up our multiplication and division topic before diving into length and perimeter in more detail, followed closely by our unit on fractions.

In English, we will kick off the term with an engaging poetry unit, where we will be crafting a descriptive poem about the river in the Stone Age. Following this, Year 3 will have the opportunity to write their own stories set in the Stone Age, drawing on inspiration from the picture book Stone Age Boy by Katoshi Kitamura.

In Science, our focus will be on light and shadow, where the children will engage in hands-on experiments. History lessons will transport us back to the fascinating era of Ancient Egypt.

In RE, we will be learning about how festivals and worship show what matters to Muslims. In art, we will be creating some Ancient Egyptian scrolls!

Our PSHE lessons will centre on safety, with a focus on e-safety and understanding the changing body. In French, we will learn about instruments, while our Computing lessons will focus on sequencing sounds, in order to creating sequences in a block-based programming language to make music. Lastly, in music, we will be developing our singing techniques. 

It promises to be a fun six weeks full of learning and exploration. 

Autumn 2

In English, we will be diving in to Nen and the Lonely Fisherman by Ian Eagleton. The children will get the opportunity to write a fantasy story based on a classic tale.

In Maths, we will be focusing on addition and subtraction and multiplication and division.

In Science, we will be exploring forces and magnets and we will be studying cities of the UK in Geography.

In DT we will be learning about cooking and nutrition and our Music lessons will be led by Mrs Bright, who will introduce the children to tuned percussion instruments, broadening their musical horizons.

In Computing, we will be capturing and editing digital still images to produce a stop-frame animation that tells a story.

In our French lessons, we will continue to focus on phonetics to understand how to correctly pronounce spoken words as well as learning the names for some animals in French.

PE sessions will focus on gymnastics and PSHE lessons will be focusing on health and wellbeing.

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Autumn 2 learning

27/11/24 - We enjoyed playing the glockenspiels our music lesson with Mrs Bright.

         

20/11/24 - Today, we taste tested different vegetables in preparation for making our seasonal tart in DT. 

    

 

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05/11/24 - Here are some snapshots of our first session back at forest school.

   

   

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Autumn term 1 curriculum

In English, we will be diving in to Seal surfer by Michael Foreman. The children will have the chance to write a letter immersing themselves into various characters.

In Maths, we will be focusing on place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division.

In Science, our Geologists’ caps will be firmly cemented as we explore rocks and fossils and their fascinating properties.

History lessons will take us back in time to study the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.

In Art we will be developing our drawing skills through examining different artists’ work and in Design and Technology we will be exploring cooking and nutrition.

Music lessons will be led by Mrs Bright, who will introduce the children to tuned percussion instruments, broadening their musical horizons.

In Computing we will be identifying digital devices and how devices can be connected to make networks.

French will commence! Allez!  The children will be introduced to the subject through phonetics to understand how to correctly pronounce spoken words. 

PE sessions will test the children’s sense of direction as they use maps to navigate themselves in orienteering.

During PSHE lessons we will be focusing on family and relationships.

 

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Autumn 1 learning

18/09/24 - In computing we compared the similarities and differences between drawing on a digital device and drawing by hand. 

26/09/24 - In our art lesson today, we used the technique 'frottage' on paper that we will use to create a piece of artwork. 

        

            

 

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​​​​​​Today we had a visit from an author, Mark Grist who performed a rap and poem for us. Then he helped us write our own class poem that we later performed. 

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   11/10/24 - Today, we created some botanical drawings of real-life flowers.