Hello,

This week, the children have been working hard on editing and improving their work across the curriculum, as well as refining their performances in advance of the KS2 poetry competition. We would like to congratulate our Year 3 pupils on their excellent performances, which were creative and engaging. Well done!

In English, we have been learning how to add detail to our ‘sea voyage’ descriptions – through prepositions, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases – for our slave diary entries. The children have been able to describe the time, location and degree of events as well as the emotions of their characters. Next week, we look forward to learning about the use of dialogue in narrative, to convey further information and detail about a character, before drafting and editing our very own slave diaries.

In Maths, we have been studying Geometry. At the start of the week, we looked at the properties of 2D and 3D shapes, before linking our prior knowledge of fractions to look at ‘quarter turns’ and ‘half turns’. Today, the children particularly enjoyed using Beebots to programme their own set of instructions when designing an obstacle course involving right angle turns. We have identified other features of shapes including horizontal and vertical lines. Next week, we look forward to learning about time.

This week, Year 3 discussed and agreed upon the following events for their CAFOD fundraiser, which shall take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 21st March 2018:

• Toy sale (bring a toy you no longer use or need).
• Book sale (bring a book you have read and would like someone else to try).
• Guess the Baby Photo (bring a named COPY of a photo from when you were a baby or toddler).

We hope you all have a great weekend and look forward to another week of learning,

Best Wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Sumba and Mrs Luter