Friday 6th September 2024

This Week's Learning

We want to congratulate the children for settling back to school life and being attentive and ready to learn. They hopefully slept well for you this week because the first week back is particularly tiring for them as they adjust back to the expectations and schedule of the school day, as well as getting to know their new teachers and classroom environments.

The children have had fun playing team building games that encourage the essential skills of listening, taking turns, and communication in order to solve problems. In maths, they have been using manipulatives, which are counters and Base 10 dienes, to help them explore Place Value. This is essential understanding that the children need to in order to access the rest of the maths curriculum. We also used the outside space of the playground for some active learning involving a times table relay race and the use of chalks to draw Place Value grids and then compare numbers with other groups.

In RHE and art the children practised using a growth mind set to persevere when drawing several drafts of a butterfly. They learnt how to be better learning partners through giving each other specific, kind and useful feedback.

Next Week's Learning

Next week we will be continuing to learn about Place Value in maths through looking at partitioning and representing numbers. In RE we are starting our learning answering the question 'What do Christians learn from the Creation story?' Our science nutrition learning will be about food diaries and we will be continuing the History and Geography topics of Ancient Egyptians and Mountains. We will also have some more time to share the wonderful home learning that the children have brought in to show. 

Important Information

Next Thursday 12th September at 9 - 9.30am you will have the opportunity to come into school and meet Mrs Burton and Mrs Jeffs to learn more about Year 3 and ask any questions you may have. We look forward to seeing you then.

Have a restful weekend.

The Year 3 Team