Welcome to KS2 and Year 3

Year 3 should be a fun place to be for you with lots of exciting projects and activities to do. From lots of P.E (including swimming) to studying rocks and crumbling. The classroom has been decorated in wonderful colours with a lively reading corner. It's actually the best classroom in the school now (well I think it is!).

This Spring Term, we will read our new book 'Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura. One day, a little boy is walking along when he trips, stumbles and falls … into the Stone Age! He meets a girl his own age and her tribe, and learns all about their way of life. He watches them make tools, clothes and weapons. He sees how they hunt, fish, cook, celebrate – and even how they paint on the walls of caves. But when a furious cave bear attacks, he wakes up back in his own time where everyone tells him it was only a dream. But was it? This will link with our history of the stone age and living off the land and residential. The book reinforces and teaches valuable elements of the Year 3 curriculum.

Homework will consist of maths, English and spelling as well as reading and recording in our reading diaries and doing Times Table Rock Stars. 'ATOM Learning' is the platform we use in KS2 for homework and you will be given a login for that.

Alongside all of this, we are very much aware of the importance of ensuring the children are happy, safe and secure in school and to help us do this, we will be following our Hearts and Minds curriculum.  More information about our Hearts and Minds curriculum and our weekly Hearts and Mind planning can be found using this link: Hearts and Minds.

I am looking forward to teaching your children this term and excited about all they have to offer.

Mr Randall

Continuing the Learning Journey……

Week Beginning: Monday 31st March 2025

Maths: We will be learning to add amounts of money.

English:  We will be learning to write a report about the Stone Age using topic words.

P.E.  Monday (gymnastics inside) and Thursday (Games outside).

Geography: We will be finding out who lives in Antartica and why?

Religion & Worldviews: We will be studying about what happens if we do wrong things.

Art: We will be studying Henri Matisse and paint in the style of Henri Matisse.

Science: We will be studying animals and humans and looking at animal sketeltons.

Music: We will be studying music from South Africa and composing.

DT: Understanding pneumatics. We will fix our pneumatic pipes and syringes. We will decorate our boxes.

Hearts and Minds: To be looking at health and wellbeing.

Homework:

Homework will consist of Maths, and a SPAG activity online (no comprehension). Spellings sheet stuck in pink exercise book, spelling test on Tuesday. Please read and record in the reading diary. Have a go onTimes Table Rock Stars. 'ATOM Learning' is the platform we use in KS2 for homework and logins are in the front of the reading record.

Weekly Reminders:

• Homework & spelling will go out on a Wednesday. (ATOM Learning online). Spelling test on Tuesday A little homework slip will be given to the children each week so you know what they have to do.
• Please ensure your child is filling their reading diary on a daily basis.
• Practise timestables on a daily basis using Times Table Rockstars (2,3,4,5,8,10s)
• Children to come in P.E. kits for the whole day on Monday and Thursday 

Renaissance link for reading click here. 

In order to find year group expectations for maths, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview. 

For year group expectations for English, please click here, scroll down and click on the overview. 

The expectations for science and the foundation subjects can be found by selecting the relevant heading from here.

To access the Atom Learning homework platform, please click here. 

Key Dates:

• Parents evening 19/03/25
• Year 3 residential trip to Kibblestone Camp Thursday 12th and Friday 13th June 2025

Thank you

Mr Randall

Don't forget to visit our Think Like an Engineer website regularly to see what we're all busy doing:

https://thinklikeanengineerproject.com