Welcome to Year 3!
Welcome to Year 3!
Hello all!
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all to Year 3 and I hope you all had a wonderful break over the summer.
It was so lovely meeting the children this week. We have managed to complete lots of fun activities. I hope the children have enjoyed their first week back after such a long break.
Some of you may know me, however, I may be new to others. I am Miss Davis, I have worked at Little Heath Primary School for many years now and I am very excited to begin teaching this class. We have an excellent support team in Year 3, Mrs Reynolds and Mrs Ameen supporting us in our learning, as well as extra support from Mrs Blatch and Mrs Hughes.
Next week
Next week we will be having a ‘take one picture’ week. We, as a whole school, will be looking at The Road to Tahiti by Paul Gauguin. All lessons, aside from maths, will be about this picture. I am looking forward to this next week and seeing the children’s creative side.
The children will be given all the equipment they need for school. Their equipment is their own responsibility to look after.
Homework
No spellings will be sent home during the first week. Spellings will be sent home the following week. The spelling test will be on Monday afternoons. The children will have the opportunity to practise their spellings during morning work, however, if you could also support children with learning their spellings this will allow the children to really consolidate their learning.
I do expect the children to be using mathletics or mathseeds at home.
I am currently in the process of reviewing our reading scheme in year 3 to make it similar to the system that was used in Year 3. This is why the children have not been sent home with reading books yet. Hopefully this will be up and running by next week. Until then, please ensure the children are all reading at home still.
PE timetable
Monday (30 minutes - trainers only)
Wednesday (1 hour - full kit)
Thursday (1 hour - full kit)
This half term
RE – Our focus this year will be on both Islam and Christianity. During our first term we will be looking at beliefs and practices within these religions.
Geography – We will be learning about countries of the World and locating countries on a map.
D&T- (Textiles) In design and technology we will be focusing on how to join materials together and the children will design and make a product.
ICT – In ICT we will be looking at using technology. Within this we will explore e-safety and how to be safe when on a computer as well as develop typing skills and using documents such as Word.
Art – In art we will be looking at Stone Age art.
Science – Our first topic in science is animals including humans. The children will learn about skeletons, muscles, diets and organs.
PSHE- Being me in my world.
Spanish – Introduction and greetings.
English- During the first half term we will look at fables, writing and performing a play, instruction writing and our poetry style will be limericks.
Maths – In maths during this half term we will be covering fractions – halves, quarters and thirds, in amounts and shapes.
Time- telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes.Problem solving.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Enjoy the rest of the break!
Miss N Davis
ndavis@littleheath.herts.sch.uk
