Hello,

We hope you have all had a good week and that you are looking forward to the St Peter’s festival on Friday 29th June 2018.

This week, the children have been drafting, editing, publishing and evaluating their own Healthy Eating stories. In particular, Year Three enjoyed reading their stories to Year One children who then gave them feedback on their excellent choice of adjectives! On Friday, the children were given an opportunity to self-assess their stories and then peer-review them using ‘2 stars and 1 wish’. We were delighted at both the quality and quantity of the children’s writing. Well done, Year Three! Next week, we look forward to learning about Explanation Texts.

In Maths, both classes have taken part in a range of addition and subtraction problems. We have encouraged the children to prove their understanding of the challenge problems set, through solving them in a variety of ways and providing a written response (reasoning) to explain how they reached their own answers. Both classes have also focused upon Times Table facts – please ensure your child completes the Maths challenge of ‘look, cover, write, check’ in their Home Learning diary.

We hope you all have an excellent weekend in the sunshine,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Luter and Mrs Stewart.

Hello,

We hope you have all had a good week and that you have continued to enjoy the sun and the World Cup!

In English, the children have continued their work on Healthy Eating stories. In particular, we have explored how to use verbs, adverbs and prepositions in order to describe the movement of a character. Furthermore, the children have been using their emotion banks, along with subordinating conjunctions and pronouns, to create a variety of Alan Peat sentences that convey the feelings of a character. Great work, Year three!

In Maths, we have continued our learning on Measurement. This week, we have focused upon reading scales and using our fractions and times tables knowledge to recognise intervals on a scale. Towards the end of the week, the children demonstrated ‘critical thinking’ when creating their very own measurement problems. Well done Year Three! Next week, we look forward to revisiting addition and subtraction with a particular focus upon mass (g, Kg) and capacity (ml, L).

We hope you all have an excellent weekend,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Luter and Mrs Stewart.

Hello,

We hope you have all had a good week and that you have enjoyed the recent sunshine.

This week, Year Three have evaluated their Dragon information pages – this was a brilliant opportunity for the children to consider the strengths and areas for improvement within their finished pieces, both in pair groups (peer assessment) and individually (self assessment). We then introduced our new unit of learning, Healthy Eating. As part of this topic, Year Three are exploring the text Doug Lugg, Boy Slug before writing their own Healthy Eating story involving transforming characters.

In Maths, the children have continued their learning on measure. In particular, they have been taught how to measure the perimeter of shapes as well as use their knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes to complete ‘missing side’ problems. Furthermore, we were impressed to see that both classes were able to use a range of strategies when calculating the perimeter of regular shapes – these included Addition, times tables as well as Multiplication. Well done Year Three!

At the end of the week, Year Three took part in a STEM learning day (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). The children worked in table groups and were given a project whereby they were required to create food and exercise plans for famous British athletes (swimmers, runners and jumpers). Across the day, both classes took part in a variety of activities about skeletons, muscles and nutrition.

Just to let you know that all Year Three Dragon models have been displayed in the school office – please do take a look at these creative and colourful projects!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Luter and Mrs Stewart.