Welcome to Year 3 - Elder and Juniper Classes

Teachers:

Miss Pembrey

Teacher: Elder Class

• Loves anything by Abba • Lived and taught in Ghana for 6 months • Went to the University of Bath • Will sing at any opportunity • You will find me walking in the countryside or in a coffee shop! • Planning my wedding for next year 💍 • Enjoys chocolate… a lot!!! • Reached the top of Scafell Pike (the tallest mountain in England) 3 times • My favourite animal is an elephant • From a very big family • Loves being an auntie

Miss Siotto

Teacher: Juniper Class

• Half Italian and can speak Italian • Love to travel- lived and taught in 5 continents • Trying to roller skate • Like to sea swim • Will dance at any opportunity • Like being outdoors and going for long walks • Favourite animal is a flamingo • Could eat crisps all day

TAs:

Mrs Gurr

TA: Elder Class

Miss Featherston

TA: Juniper Class

After what has been a strange and challenging time for many, we are now looking forward to the new busy year ahead of us. We have lots of interesting and engaging topics for the children to enjoy, including:

Do You Believe in Magic?
Rocking All Over the World
Let There Be Light
Just Around the River Bend
Watch Me Grow
The Mummy Returns

Parent meetings will be arranged throughout the year to set your child’s targets and discuss their progress. If you would like to speak to us at any other time, please feel free to message us on Class Dojo.

Have a look on the tabs below to see what we have been learning about in each term as well as for details of our latest Home Learning Challenge and our termly Topic Leaflet.

In English, we have been reading Roald Dahl’s ‘The Magic Finger’. We have explored the story through role-play and used it to inspire our own diaries and narratives. The children have also enjoyed celebrating ‘Poetry Day’ and Storytelling Week. We hope they are feeling inspired now to write their own stories!

In Maths, we have extensively learnt about Place Value and how to use the column method for addition and subtraction. The children are now much more secure following these methods.

In Science, the children have explored the human body focussing on types of skeletons, muscles and joints. The children have enjoyed learning about different types of skeletons and the importance and keeping our bodies healthy.

During History this term, the children have begun to explore the Stone Age. The children have been using an enquiry approach to discover how life changed throughout the Stone Age. They loved dressing up for Stone Age day. In Maths, the children created their own symbols to create numbers! We then went into the woods to gather leaves before making our own Stone Age necklaces out of clay. They created their necklaces with clay teeth, bones and flax. In the afternoon, the children learnt a Stone Age version of ‘We Will Rock You’! To finish the day the children had a go at cave painting. They drew pictures they imagined might have been in the walls such as hunters, animals and sceneries. They had a brilliant day.

Our Geography topic this term saw the children explore the question: ‘How does chocolate get to my lunchbox?’ The children made their own comic strips explaining the process of chocolate from Cacao pod to a chocolate bar. They tried raw cocoa and discovered that it did not taste anything like chocolate!

To finish the term, the children designed and created their own balanced dessert bowl. Delicious chocolate brownies, tasty fruit and flavoured yoghurts were on the menu and the children loved their finished product!