Hello,

We hope that you have all had a pleasant week so far.

This week, the children attended an assembly to find out which participants from the Spring Term Reading Passport Challenge had won a place on the ‘Rock Up’ school trip from the class raffle draws! We would like to congratulate all of the children who took part in the reading challenge and say well done to those who were lucky enough to have their names drawn from the hat during the assembly. We were delighted by the level of commitment shown by the children, and their families, during the completion of their passports.

In English, we have been learning how to create fronted adverbials for manner and degree, as well as how to add detail to a sentence through the addition of particular word classes – adjectives, prepositions, verbs and adverbs. As the week progressed, we looked more closely at the use of dialogue within a Roman slave diary, in order to capture a reader’s interest and make them feel as though they were on board a pirate ship too. The children worked in pairs to role play the conversations that may have taken place between the slaves and their captors, before recording their ideas on speech bubbles to reinforce the concept of turn-taking between characters within a conversation. Next week, we look forward to punctuating our speech using inverted commas to show when speaking starts and ends. We shall also be exploring the use of alternative verbs to ‘said’, to give the reader further clues about a character’s feelings.

In Maths, we completed our revision of the addition and subtraction on hundreds, tens and ones before introducing our new unit of learning: Money. The children have enjoyed exploring a range of different coins on their tables. In particular, we have been learning about the values of different coins as well as using a variety of mathematical representations to show this, e.g. using Numicon to show that a 10p coin can be made up of two 5ps, five 2ps, or ten 1ps. As the week continued, Year Three began to compare amounts of money (more than, less than and equal to) before studying a range of money problems. For example, we have used combinations of coins to reach a higher or lower value as well as to begin making amounts of money in different ways. Next week, we look forward to learning about how to convert between pounds and pence, before solving more complex problems involving money values.

Thank you to all the children who have been handing in their Romans and spelling home learning – we can’t wait to see all of the fantastic learning that children have been working on at home, during our home learning check on Friday 29th March 2019.

See you all next week!

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Stewart and Mrs Sumba