Welcome to Summer Term for  Team Neptune

Can you believe we are in our last term of Year 3? I hope you enjoyed the Easter break and are ready for all the exciting challenges we have planned for this term. It was so exciting for the children to share their learning with you last term and I do hope you get great enjoyment out of seeing all their hard work on Seesaw.  The following information outlines what your child will be learning this term.

Maths 

It is a jammed packed term in Maths with lots to cover.  We will be focusing on the following knowledge and skills through our Power Maths scheme; mass, capacity, fractions, money, time, shape and statistics.We will also continue to practice our fluency of timetables through Times Tables rock Stars so completion of TTRS homework and home practice is essential for your child’s success.  Children will also continue to have the opportunity to practice their fluency skills through core skills and tough ten.

English

This term we will be using ‘Alba The hundred year old fish’  and ‘A planet full of plastic’ as a stimulus to explore and extend children’s understanding of pollution in our oceans. We will then use this learning to then create a non-chronological report. Children will master skills in using the possessive apostrophe, build technical vocabulary and learn how to organise non-narrative materials using headings and sub-headings.

After the half term we will be reading the magical story ‘Blue John’ which is set in the Peak District. Again, we will be focusing on building our mastery skills to write a non-narrative piece focusing on cave formation.  We will build our skills in increasing our sentence structures with a wider range of conjunctions and the successful use of progressive and present perfect forms of tense.

Science

As budding scientists, we will learn about how sound is creating and explain what it is.  Children will use investigations to explore the link between vibrations and the volume that is produced. 

Learning Adventure

We will be exploring everything Greece this term!  In Geography Children will have the opportunity to extend their learning on European countries.  They will continue to build on their map reading skills from last term to locate Greece and topographical features.  Children will become historians and archaeologists, leaning all about that most important time in history and its impact on the world today. In art we will use our historical learning to create Grecian inspired pottery.  Lastly, we will excite our taste buds by creating a Greek inspired meal for a restaurant.

PE

Our PE lessons are on Thursdays and Fridays every week. Please can PE kits be in school and labelled with your child’s name.

Water bottles 

Please can all children bring in a labelled water bottle for them to use throughout their school day.

Homework

Homework will be set on Ed Shed, this will include spellings, maths and grammar. There are 3 parts to be completed every week.  Homework will be set on Fridays and needs to be returned by the following Wednesday. Your child has their own individual login for both Ed Shed and TTRS inside their planners, which are to be taken home and brought into school every day.  Homework is an essential part of their learning as it helps them consolidate learning and take responsibility to work independently.

Reading

Reading for pleasure is a crucial part of learning and development.  It helps spark your child’s imagination and develop essential literacy skills.  Please support your child to read their Accelerated Reader books for 20 minutes each day at home.  They can also read any other books, be they fiction or non-fiction. Planners will be checked weekly and I would encourage you and your child to write about they are reading.  It could be about what they are enjoying, what is happening or how it makes them feel.  Please sign their planners weekly.

Planners/ Messages

If you wish to deliver a message to me, please use the planner as a form of communication but make sure they remember to hand it to me that morning so as to guarantee I see the message.  As always, I encourage open lines of communication between school and home. If you have any questions or concerns throughout the term, please do not hesitate to contact me through the school’s administration team. Remember you can also check out our learing on Seesaw where you can see exactly what is happening in the classroom!  You can also use this as a way of communication.

Mrs Simpson

Thank you for all your support.