Welcome to Willow Class Webpage

Class Teacher: Miss Lee 

Our Star of the Week this Week:

Our Star of the Week this week is Harper!

Our Headteacher Value of the Week Award Winner for Aspiration:

Our Head Teacher Award winner is Stanley!

Year 3 Spellings

Spellings to be tested on Friday 20th September 2024

1. unhappy

2. unkind

3. undo

4. unable

5. uncertain

6. discover

7. disrespect

8. disinfect

9. dismiss

10. disorder

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

Our Maths learning for the first part of this term is on Place Value. We have been working on our rounding skills, rounding numbers to the nearest 10. Please click the link below to play the game Rocket Rounding, to help your child with this skill:

Rocket Rounding (topmarks.co.uk)

Maths homework is to complete 15 minutes of TT Rockstars. Please log on to 

Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)

to complete the weekly TT Rockstars homework. Log-in details can be found inside your child's reading record.

Foundation Subjects

 In Science we have started to look at why health and nutrition are important. We talked about what nutrition is, and how it helps our bodies. We sorted different animals according to whether they are carnivores, herbivores or omnivores. We also learned about the different food groups, and how each of these benefitted our growing bodies.

In Music we have been learning the song ‘Let Your Spirit Fly.’ We have been playing lots of games to help us to find the pulse of the music, and doing ‘listen and repeat’ activities, to help us learn the different parts of the song. 

Our Geography topic this half term is ‘A Kingdom United.’ We have begun to name and locate cities in the United Kingdom, including the four capital cities. We have built on our learning from KS1, where the children learn to use the 4 compass points, and we are now able to use 8 compass points to describe a location. 
 

In Art we have been looking at Aboriginal art and OP art. We have developed a ‘toolkit’ of the features of each genre, and will be starting to produce our own pieces in the two styles.

Transition Days

We had so much fun on our two transition days, starting to get to know each other!