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Fox Class
Welcome back, I hope that you have all had a peaceful and restful Christmas!
I am looking forward to hearing about all the things that you have done and any adventures that you had.
In English, we are going to be focusing our learning around the book 'The Pied Piper of Hamlin', where we will be writing as a character, creating information reports, adverts and formal letters before going on to write our own myth or legend. We will then go on to use the book 'The Barnabus Project' by The Fan Brothers to inspire our learning. The children will create descriptions, write instructions, letters of advice and some dialogue before going on to create a brochure.
In Maths, we will continue to focus on multiplication and division. We will consolidate last term's learning before moving on to focus on written methods to solve long division and multiplication. Later on in the half-term, we will move on to looking at the measurement of length and perimeter. We will support this with our timetables practise, as well as our KIRFs for this half-term which focusses on how time is segmented into different units, such as minutes, hours, days, weeks and months and the division of those units.
In Year 3, our foundation subjects are usually taught in the afternoon, and we block teach our subjects. Music, Spanish, PSHE and PE are all taught weekly. This half-term we will be starting with History and in this we will be learning about the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. We will link this to our Art, where we will be making our own Cave Paintings. In Science, we will be focusing on 'Rocks’. We will be identifying and classifying different types of Rock and studying their properties to help us do so. The children will also perform experiments to help them further study some of those properties. As part of this topic we will also spend some time studying fossils and how they are found in some rock types. Whilst in RE we will be exploring Islam. We will look at what Muslims believe about God and why, as well as gaining an understanding of who the Prophet Mohammed is and why his is important to Muslims. In Music this half-term the children are going to be learning how to play the Ukulele!
On the main year group page you will find a document that has the website links for several sites that you can access and the children can play maths games that will help them to develop their fluency and enable them to recall quickly key information such as number bonds and timetables.
If you have any questions please speak to me in the playground either before or after school,
Mr Marshall and Mrs Manuel
Christmas visit to the sandhurst day centre
