It was lovely to see so many of you at our Meet the Teacher meeting on Monday. The information shared above is to give you an overview of what is to come for the children in Year 3.

This week in English, we finally discovered the conclusion of our model text; thankfully, the fire did finally end and our main character James was deemed a hero.  We have also been focusing on one of our toolkits – speech marks, and how we can include a variety of vocabulary to show how the person is speaking (reported clause).

In Maths, we have continued with our topic on place value, focusing on hundreds, tens and ones, as well as looking at how we can partition these numbers.

In science, we built upon our previous lesson that focused on igneous rocks, by investigating the properties of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

For Art this week, we explored the ways that the Stone Age people would have made colours from natural resources, to use for their cave paintings.  We then all had a go at creating our own colour chart for the various shades of brown they might have used.

Today in History, we shone a light on the Stone Age settlement ‘Skara Brae’ that was only discovered back in 1850. This gave us a real insight into what it would have been like to live in a Stone Age house.

Home Learning:

Doodle - Please ensure that your child is completing their Doodle Learning to get in the green zone. This will be checked every Friday.

Reading - Please could all children bring their reading books and records into school each day.  They will also need to have these signed and dated to earn their star stamp, to show that they have read (at least) five times over the week.

Spellings – We have a number of children, including some of our more confident spellers, who are misspelling a number of the Yr. 1&2 Common Exception Words, in their written tasks.  Please could you spend some time overlearning the words below, both in isolation as well as in a sentence or two.

with,   said,   like,   what,   when,   this,    some,   come,   would

The Change Maker Project - Next week we will spend one of our Collective worship sessions as a class, discussing our new initiative: The Change maker Project. We introduced this bespoke citizenship programme to the school 2 weeks ago and we are looking forward to hearing which activities have been chosen, and how each class is getting on progressing with it.  If you have not had the opportunity to discuss it with your child, please do so this weekend, ready for next week. They only need to choose one activity from the Friendship section -St Mary's Changemaker Project - Lower KS2

Next week:

School is closed next Friday 26^th September.

Please let Mrs Palmer know via the Gateway, if you are able to help on our class trip to Celtic Harmony on Tuesday 14^th October.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend

Mrs Collett