Welcome to Year 3 Elm Class Webpage!

Class Teacher: Miss Lawton 

Class Teaching Assistant: Mrs McMeekin 

Headteacher's Award

Darcy

Star of the Week

Reggie for his super effort and perseverance with his work. 

Gold Awards

Sophie.H, Phoebe and Leo for their super effort with their TTRS homework.

Homework

Time tables should be practiced at least once a week via TTRS:  https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student 

Your child’s login details are stuck in their reading record.

Home reading book to be read and signed by an adult regularly and returned to school daily. 
 

Spelling strategy sent home every Monday to practise at home. 

English

This half term we are working on a narrative unit, based on the book A Bear Called Paddington. We have already done some fantastic writing on this, and can't wait to share it with you!. We will then move on to a non-fiction unit, making a leaflet about tourist attractions in London.

Maths

In Maths this week, we have been learning about Addition and subtraction using the written column method and deciding which strategy is the most efficient to solve different types of calculations. 

Foundation subjects

In Geography we are learning about the Kingdom United, we have begun identifying cities and counties in the United Kingdom. The children explored reading a map of the United Kingdom and navigating using the 8 points of a compass. 
 

In Art, we have been looking at Aboriginal and OP art. We have been experimenting with different brush techniques and mixing primary colours to create secondary colours.   
 

In science, we have been learning about nutrition and the five food groups we need to keep us healthy. We have been learning about why nutrition is important and how different food groups have different functions in the human body.