Year 3

Hello and welcome to 3C’s class page

Hello and welcome to 3H’s class page. We are a class full of excitement and enthusiasm, and love to learn about the world around us! 3H have had a brilliant start to life in KS2 and have taken it all in their stride. They have worked hard to use their growth mindset when needed and our daily 5 minute mind really helps us to remain calm and connect as a class. The children have used these to challenge themselves into being the best they can be!  Life in the classroom is very busy, but it is a fantastic, active learning environment – which is what we love! Everybody in 3H is thoughtful and thrive on each other’s successes while supporting each other when needed. We love to bring our learning alive and to use our own experiences to support our understanding. We are ready to work as a team to complete our first year in KS2 with great successes! We know that as a class we have the belief and determination to achieve great things in year 3!

Every day we are determined to show our MASTER values in everything we do; we have high expectations and we are dedicated to being an Eaton Park person. We have worked as a class to incorporate the MASTER values into our own class rules for us to follow,

M – We will always make the right choices.

A – We will always challenge ourselves to be the best that we can be.

S – I will complete tasks that are given and have good presentation in my book.

T – I will be kind and helpful to others.

E – I will always be ready to learn.

R – I will always listen to others and use my manners.

We love to get carried away with our reading in 3H. At every opportunity, you’ll catch us enjoying reading whether it be during our reading practise time, reading quietly snuggled in the book corner, within our lessons, or in the library. This year, we will be reading the following texts throughout the year:

• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
• The Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura
• The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
• Treasure or Origins – Literacy shed film.
• The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• The Tunnel by Anthony Brown

We would love to have as many Bookworm winners as possible in 3H this year, so we are going to work together to encourage each other to read 5 times every week at home! Mrs Hudson would love to see as many children as possible win a gold coin to take to our reading book vending machine.

Over the course of this year, we will encounter many interesting and fun-filled activities to develop our understanding across the curriculum. We will continue to build on our prior learning in Maths, focusing on all of the key areas including units like addition and subtraction, shape and statistics. In Geography, we will start the year developing our map skills. Throughout the year, we will travel back in time during our history lessons to find out about different historical periods including The Three Ages, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece . In science, we begin by building knowledge of rocks, before moving on to forces and magnets, then exploring light and plants before finishing the year off by looking at animals including humans topic. Alongside this, we will develop our understanding of religions, artistic techniques, computing skills, musical skills and discussing personal, social, health and well-being.

Routines/key information 

• Toast (£1.50) money needs to be paid on a Monday for the week
• A homework sheet made up of a Maths activity will be issued on Showbie every Friday for the children to complete. Homework will then be due in the following Friday.
• Reading – it is now the expectation that children read at least 4 times a week. For those children who read 5 times or more a week they will achieve the book worm, and they will be entered into a prize draw to win a visit to the vending machine! Reading now needs to be logged on BoomReader and this will be checked every Friday.
• The winners medal will be issued on a Friday alongside 2 other children who will pick from the prize box- who is going to shine bright in 2M?

Our trips/ experiences this year

• Pantomime
• Cathedral visit
• Road Safety Walk
• A river study
• Library visit
• Stone Age Day

Thank you for taking the time to read about our amazing 3H class and we hope you have enjoyed learning about us. We will be sharing more of our learning journey with you over the year, so keep a look out on our class dojo page and the school website.

Hello and welcome to 3H’s class page

A very happy hello and warm welcome to our class page for 3S. We are looking forward to an exciting year ahead and can’t wait to share our adventures with you. We are an energetic, kind and caring group of children who are ready to take on the new challenges of Key Stage 2. In 3S, we strive to follow our academy’s MASTER values every single day. We are working hard to earn positive green points, and we love to celebrate each other’s achievements. We are going to work hard this year to develop resilience in the classroom and become more independent in our learning by listening to feedback and implementing it. We know that with great determination, we can achieve great things!

We love to read in 3S, and we have so many opportunities to read during our school day, whether it be during English sessions, guided reading, wider curriculum lessons or dedicated reading slots where we can recommend our favourite books to our peers. We would love to have as many Bookworm entries as possible in 3S this year. Who will get their hands on a golden coin? You’ve got to be in it to win it!

In English lessons, our first text, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, is a twist on a well-known and well-loved traditional tale. Who knew the wolf was innocent all along and ‘the big, bad wolf’ reputation was actually a huge mistake? We will use Talk4Writing to re-tell the ‘real’ story as told by The Wolf.

As well as fiction writing, we will have the opportunity to create non-fiction texts linking to our wider curriculum subjects through reading Stone Age Boy and The Great Kapok Tree.

A firm favourite author of ours is Roald Dahl and we end the year by delving into the magical world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and it only seemed right to have this as our theme for our reading corner this year! Can we persuade you to buy our delicious new chocolate creations? In addition to this, we will learn how to use inverted commas correctly by including speech in our writing. We can’t wait to be immersed in a world of pure imagination!

Within our wider curriculum, we have a busy and exciting year planned with lots of opportunities to build on what we already know and learn new things. We even have the chance to start to learn a new language- how exciting! Now we are in Key Stage 2, we have our own device that we use to support with our work and learning. We are already becoming more tech-savvy, and we especially enjoy a quiz! During History, we’ll be travelling back in time to explore key periods, including the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age as well as discovering the wonders of Ancient Egypt. We’ll learn about farming and where our food comes from in Geography and become geographers ourselves when we carry out our own river study! In RE, we have the opportunity to further explore the religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Science lessons will allow us to explore a range of topics with lots of new learning to be gained through our units on rocks, light and forces. We love to share our own knowledge and show how enthusiastic we are within these subjects. We can’t wait to see all the amazing things we will accomplish this year and share our learning with you!

Routines/key information

• Toast money needs to be paid for the following week via Arbor
• Maths homework is uploaded onto Showbie each Friday and checked the following Friday. This will link to the children’s development of times table recall and is vital in supporting their mathematical understanding and application of various concepts.
• Our new online reading diary, Boom Reader, will be checked every Friday- make sure you’ve read at least 4 times every week.
• Star of the Week will be announced every Friday

Our trips this year

• Stone Age Day
• Library visit
• Pantomime
• Fieldwork enquiry linked to a river study
• Farm visit
• Additional external visitors

Thank you for taking the time to read our class page, and we hope you have enjoyed learning a little bit more about life in 3S. Remember to look out for updates on Class Dojo with all the fabulous things that we get up to!