Welcome to Red Deer Class!

I hope you had a restful and enjoyable half term.

In English, we are going to be exploring the book 'The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish' by Chloe Savage. We will explore settings, write persuasive letters, create diary entries, write conversations as speech and create our own poems before going on to write a non-chronological report. Later in the half-term we will move on to read Katherine Rundell's book 'The Zebra's Great Escape'. This will give us opportunities to write notes as if we were detectives, create wanted posters, write letters and own own poems. We will finish our work on this book by creating our own version of a 'great escape' story.

In Maths, we will be starting the half-term by focusing on fractions. We will start with reminding ourselves of the language around fractions to ensure that we understand what the numerator and denominator are. We will then be comparing and ordering both unit and non-unit fractions, understanding what the whole means in this context and working with equivalent fractions. Later in the half-term we will move on to working with Mass and Capacity. Our KIRFs this half-term will be focusing on the 4 times table and building a rapid and fluent recall of tables.  We will support this with our daily times tables practise.

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 Science where we will be working to understand Forces and Magnets. We will be investigating what forces are and how they make objects move. We will also be exploring what magnetic means and which materials are magnetic. In Geography will be studying the UK. The children will be learning about the counties of the UK and how to locate and identify them. They will also be locating and comparing some towns and cities in the UK before comparing some of the geographical features of our country by looking at hills, mountains, and the seas and coastlines. In DT the children will be designing and sewing their own bag pouch.  In RE, we will be returning to studying Christianity and looking at the key messages of Easter and the significance of the events of Holy Week to Christians. In Music this half-term the children will be continuing to learn how to play the Ukulele!

If you have any questions please speak to me in the playground either before or after school,

Many thanks,
Miss Wilkinson and Mrs Ross

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