Mr Gillard

Forest School on Wednesday and PE on Friday.

For Forest School sessions, children will need to have legs and arms covered. They will also need waterproofs and wellies in cade of bad weather. Wellies can be kept at school and taken home when our block of sessions concludes.

Children must come dressed in PE kit on Friday. Please ensure that jogging trousers / leggings and hoodies are worn in case of chilly weather. Earrings should be removed, or covered with tape if this is not possible. Children may wear shorts underneath.

Home Learning Menu:

Maths: We have completed our addition and subtraction unit! Please try some questions at home using the practise booklets. (10 mins)

English: Use Spelling Shed (log in information is in your reading log) to work on your '-ing, -ed, -er-' word list (10 mins)

Maths: Complete the next workout in your new times table books! Remember to bring them in on Friday for checking (10 mins)

Class reader: How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

How do we know the feelings of the young Vikings? What is lurking at the bottom of the ocean? How will Hiccup's start as dragon trainer go?

Picture news:

15.11.24 - Dangerous Dragons and Dress Up Days

Year 3 have continued their great start back this week, excited to discover more about the world of How To Train Your Dragon! We love the story so far and have been designing our own dragons to add to the story. Would you want a Bone Crusher or a Blood Roarer or even a Furious Nightwing as a pet around the house? In science, we have begun looking at human and animal skeletons and classifying them into vertebrates and invertebrates. Some animals have surprised us and we will continue to discover more next week. Finally, we ended the week with a great dress up day. The children maintained their focus to complete a super bit of writing first, before some times table themed mindfulness to begin our new maths unit of multiplication and division. Well done Year 3!

8.10.24 - Forest School Fun!

Year 3 have enjoyed a super first week back at Langrish. It kicked off with a day of World Faith activities, discussing our ideas and interpretations of the word 'Temptation'. We realised that, though it's something we have all felt, we all engage with it very differently!  We have also begun our new English unit, reading How To Train Your Dragon! The children were all very busy mapping the story this week, and have taken home a mini version to share. Can they retell the story so far?  By far, the highlight was our Wednesday afternoon Forest School session, where the children enjoyed den building, mud kitchen, whittling and...fire lighting?! Wow! Thanks so much for the indefatigable Mrs. S for a great session and we are all looking forward to the next one!

25.10.24 - Mary Rose Calling!

We made it! Well done to everyone for a fabulous half term. It's a huge transition to start Year 3 and all the children have made us so very proud. We are looking forwards to lots more to celebrate in the coming year. To top it all off, we all enjoyed a super day out at the Mary Rose Museum. The children's behaviour was brilliant and, despite some very tired people at the end, they were all amazed by the sight of the ship and the children told us that they couldn't wait to tell their families about it. Pencil cases should have come home in bags. Please check, replenish, pair down (bin those over sharpened pencils!) and we look forward to seeing you all back on Monday 4th of September.

18.10.24 - Performance Poetry and Popping and Locking!

This week, Year 3 have shown great bravery to take on a different kind of challenge in English: Performance Poetry! We have discussed that, although we may not all feel like natural performers, we can use poetry to create a sense of a character, mood and purpose that can give us the "bare bones" of a performance. Everyone has now performed to the class at least once, and I am so proud of their confidence and ability to be, "Louder!" In maths, we have begun using column methods to solve addition and subtraction problems. We have shown great understanding so far, and I hope we can continue to use the correct methods on our journey to the answers we're looking for. Despite being so busy, we even had time for a bit of breakdancing to Herbie Hancock's 'Rockit' to get us thinking about the inspiration for Keith Haring's amazing icons.

11.10.24 - Marvelous Magnetism 

This week, Year 3 have been expanding their writing toolkit with some amazing new features. We have been learning all about  fronted adverbials and how to use and punctuate them. We also spent a session looking for subordinating conjunctions and trying to use them in addition to all our other writing tools.  I was so proud of all our amazingly poetic sentences and can't wait to see how the children can deploy them in their extended writing pieces.  In maths, we have been working on new methods for addition and subtraction. These have been really tricky, but we are growing and developing our set of tools so we can be equipped to solve any problem! In science, we used our key ideas about magnets to solve the crisis of paper clips being stuck at the bottom of a very thin measuring cylinder. Well done Year 3!

4.10.24 - Perfect Poets!

This week we have completed our wonderful animal acrostics, inspired by the Kingfisher poem from The Lost Words. I was so proud of the children's resilience, especially those who confessed to me that they weren't sure that they could write poetry before they began! In maths, we have begun our unit on addition and subtraction skills and are on our journey to mastery of the fearsome column method! We also managed to find a (brief!) spell of sunshine to go outside and sketch parts of our school building, thinking about what structures would interest Keith Haring and his icons. Well done Year 3!

27.9.24 - Crafty Kingfishers and Goodbye to Grimwood!

This week, Year 3 have completed their Black Hat epics! It was great to see how the children deployed their developing editing skills to correct and improve their writing as they finished. While our writing stamina may still be developing, the children thoroughly enjoyed their pieces and were so positive about moving on to their next unit on the poem Kingfisher. We also had a super art lesson where children had their first go at making their own Keith Haring artwork. They were all excited to have another try at home too! At the end of the week, we finished our first class reader: Grimwood. We're excited to start a new story soon!

20.9.24 - Colourful Creatures and Tricky Tables

This week, Year 3 have continued their Black Hat adventures, designing storyboards and creating their own strange creatures to appear from the hat. What happens when a rainbow elephant or a translucent gorilla try to appear out of the mysterious hat? I can't wait to find out when we begin our own versions of the story! In other areas, we have continued our place value journey in maths, created challenging tables to organise results of science experiments and also had time to explore our in-class gallery of Keith Haring artwork and discuss the moral dilemmas of art vs. crime by looking at collections of street art. Wow! Our highlight of the week was seeing our faces as we did our 'scrunch and stretch' warm ups for singing in the music and drama room.

13.9.24 - Woodland Wanderers and Wordsmiths!

This week, Year 3 have begun working on the story of The Black Hat. We listened to unusual music and imagined going on a journey through a creepy forest! We then thought of all the interesting vocabulary that we could use to describe the character on their journey. We have also begun our White Rose Maths books, learning about how to represent values in hundreds, tens and ones. Well done Year 3!

6.9.24 - Welcome Back!

Thank you for a great first week Year 3! We have been busy learning our new routines and expectations, creating class charters and (naturally) lots and lots of reading! We have also played maths games every day to reactivate those mathematical brains after a long, lazy holiday! I am super proud of how we have started. Please get a good rest this weekend and be ready for even more next week!

Useful websites:

                      Purple Mash                    Spelling Shed                     BBC Bitesize                 Times Table Songs - 2,5,10  3,6,7,8,9,11,12