St Peter's Church of England (VA) Primary School
One Family, Aiming High, Learning Together with God
Welcome to Year 3!
One Family, Aiming High, Learning Together with God
Welcome to Year 3!
The class teachers this year are Miss Douch and Mrs Callaghan.
Please check back here regularly for updates about Year 3 and what we are doing in our learning.
PE is on Tuesdays and Fridays, please come to school in your PE kit.
Forest School is on Wednesdays, please remember to bring in wellington boots. Forest school is an all weather lesson, the children will still go out if it is raining.
Please make children have a coat in school everyday.
Please ensure reading records are filled in twice a week by an adult at home an brought into school on Wednesdays for us to check, all books including library books will be changed on Fridays.
Homework books should be returned on Wednesdays, new homework will be set on the Friday.
If you have any questions or concerns, please catch me in the mornings or after school. You may also wish to email year3@spmillend.herts.sch.uk, however if the message is urgent please contact the school office.
Weekly Blog
In year 3 this week…
In maths we have finished our first fractions unit. We have looked at equivalent fractions and comparing and ordering them. We have used stem sentences to help us remember our fraction rules:
'When the numerators are the same, the greater the denominator the smaller the fraction'
and 'When the denominators are the same, the smaller the numerator the smaller the fraction'. I have been very impressed with their hard work. Please make sure you are continuing to practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars.
In guided reading we are reading 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King. We have been practising our reading fluency and comprehension. This week we finished our penultimate chapter, and we look forward to finishing the book next week and seeing how Stig and Barneys story ends.
In English we have finished our core text 'The Bear and the Piano' by David Litchfield. The children wrote some fantastic diary entries in role as the bear really empathising with the characters and drawing upon all we learnt about him throughout the book. We look forward to starting a poetry book next week 'Hot Like Fire' by Valerie Bloom.
In science we have been looking at Plants and thinking about what plants need in order to thrive. We have set up a few experiments to test if plants really need light to grow. We planted some cress seeds and have put one in pot in direct sunlight, one in partial sunlight and the last with no sunlight. We look forward to seeing the results on growth next week!
In computing we started editing our book trailers using imovie. We look forward to continuing with this next week and seeing the final outcomes.
I hope you all have a restful weekend!