This week’s Learning at a glance

This week’s learning in Year 3 at a glance!

 

Year 3

Learning Link:

Once Upon a Tomb

As your children enter the Spring term, they will step back in time as we delve into the fascinating world of the Ancient Egyptians.  The children will have a wonderful opportunity to become fully immersed in our topic this term.

The children will be finding out about daily life in Ancient Egypt, mummification; tombs and so much more!

St Dominic – Miss Duncan: missduncan@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St Teresa – Mrs Bond: mrsbond@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Mrs Clarke: mrsclarke@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Latest Curriculum Information Booklet: 2023-24 Spring

Curriculum Evening Presentation: CE 3

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: 18th March 2024

Week A

Weekly reminders:

Monday: Bring library books, if children want to swap.

Tuesday: PE, come to school wearing PE kit.

Wednesday: 3D come to school wearing PE kit.

Thursday: 3T come to school wearing PE kit. Please bring yellow spelling book. World Down Syndrome Day – children are encouraged to wear brightly coloured socks, long socks, odd socks, 1 sock or even 3 socks for 3 chromosomes – a donation can be made to Stepping Stones DS Charity via Scopay

Friday: Spelling test, please bring in yellow spelling book. Day of many colours for our Lenten Preparation – this is a mufti (non-uniform) day where children can wear different coloured clothes to celebrate and remember that we all belong to God’s family: donations are welcome to Mission Together a charity for children supporting other children via Scopay.

Reading for Pleasure

Welcome to our world by Moira Butterfield and Harriet Lynas

RE

GIVING ALL

LC: To understand the importance of the Twelve Stations of the Cross.

The children will be looking at the Stations of the Cross in detail and understanding Jesus’ crucifixion.

English

WRITING

LC: To plan our own poem about a dragon.

In this lesson, the children will be looking at different word choices and creating their own poem about a dragon.

LC: To write our own poem about a dragon.

In this lesson the children will be writing their dragon poem informed by their plan from the day before.

LC: To illustrate our own poem about a dragon.

The children will be choosing how to display their poem and producing a completed version.

Master Readers

Text: The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd

Monday:  Whole class reading of text

Tuesday: Book Club

Wednesday: Modelled comprehension

Thursday: Independent comprehension and review

Friday:  Edit and review

 

Focus vocabulary this week:

collapse, lurking, grime, instinctively, demolishing

SPAG

Spelling

Miss Duncan and Mrs Clarke: To spell words ending in ‘le’.

Mrs Maguire: To spell words ending in ‘-tion’.

Mrs Marshall: To spell words where ‘-ing’ is added to single syllable words.

Grammar

L.C. To revise previous topics taught.

The children will be recapping their learning of adverbs, conjunctions, determiners and proper nouns.

Maths

MEASUREMENT

LC: To use equivalent measurements (cm and mm).

The children will be quickly converting between centimetres and millimetres, effectively explaining the methods they have used.

LC: To measure and compare lengths.

The children will be comparing lengths in mixed units, placing lengths in ascending and descending order and completing expressions using appropriate symbols.

LC: To add lengths.

The children will be adding pairs of lengths in mm, cm and m or mixed units using appropriate strategies such as column addition.

LC: To subtract lengths.

The children will be finding the difference between pairs of lengths and using appropriate methods to subtract depending on the question.

Science

ANIMALS INCLUDING HUMANS

LC: To name the bones and bone groups of the human skeleton.

The children will be looking at the main bones and labelling these correctly on a diagram and explaining their use.

DT

LEVERS AND LINKAGES

LC: To develop design ideas further, using understanding of mechanisms.

Children will be identifying the appealing features of their design for the intended user and explaining how their mechanisms work.

Computing

NETWORKS

LC: To undertake a summative assessment on Networks

Children will undertake a summative assessment of our topic on Networks to consolidate their understanding and address any misconceptions.

Geography

OUR LOCAL AREA

LC: To locate and label places on a map of the UK.

The children will be locating English regions, counties and cities and learning about the human and physical features of England.

French

LC: To practise saying, reading and understanding the numbers 11-20.
Listening carefully, speaking clearly, making connections, showing you understand.

Music

RECORDERS

Warm up focusing on a soft doo sound. Producing the notes – so and mi. Sight reading and clapping rhythms of known tunes. Sing and sign known songs from rhythmic solfa. Perform Mary Ann. Learn new note La – and Rain rain go away song.

PE

Respond Differently – Develop creative skills to respond differently to a variety of tasks. Apply creative skills by making up their own versions of activities and different rules to go with them to make the activities more fun or more challenging. Use throwing and catching in isolation and in combination and develop and apply control and balance in different ways.

Learning for Life

L.C. To understand how to chat online safely

Children will know how they can report and get help if they encounter inappropriate material online.

Homework

Tuesday: Grammar Homework .Handed out on 19th March and due in on 26th March.

Friday: 22nd March new words handed out. Learn spellings and bring in yellow book with a maximum of 5 sentences in for Thursday 28th March.