What another fantastic week we have had in Year 3! We are well underway with our Harvest Assembly practise and look forward to welcoming you in next week. Take a look at what we got up to this week-

Guided Reading

This week we have been continuing looking at the book ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. We have been reading a play script version of the story to begin our learning on Play Scripts. We were able to identify the main features of a play script, such as dialogue and stage directions. We learnt to read from the script, using our voices effectively and performing for the class. During ‘Reading for Pleasure’ we got the chance to read through a variety of play scripts, sharing our favourites with the class.

English

Continuing with ‘Stone Age Boy’, we focused this week on developing our understanding of script writing. This week we practised using dialogue within a script and incorporated stage directions, making use of both colons and brackets. We also practised using verbs and adverbs to up-level our action-filled scenes, applying our learning from SPaG. We finished our week by writing an exciting showpiece on a scene involving the bear from our book!

Maths

In Maths this week we have moved on to subtraction. We started the week by recapping our number bonds knowledge from Year 2 and applying this to mental subtraction techniques. We used number lines to help us both subtract and find the difference between two numbers. We consider how fact families can help us with inverse operations i.e. if I know 24 – 8 = 16 then 16 + 8 = 24.

Next week in Maths we will be continuing our learning on subtraction using the formal method, column subtraction.

Fact of the week

Next week, the fact of the week is 2X6=12 and 6X2=12.

Thematic

We have had an exciting week this week in Thematic learning all about soil and sediment! We collected our own samples from Forest School and learnt that soil is made from rocks and organic matter and that rocks can change over time. We recapped our learning of the 3 Stone Age stages and wowed our teachers with our incredible knowledge of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras.  We ended our week by looking at how farming changed from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

Home Learning

This week we have been focusing our learning Play Scripts. For your home learning this week, we would like you to create a play script on anything of your choice. This can be evidenced in any way, for example writing, pictures, videos or illustrations.

Harvest information

Later this term, we will be celebrating Harvest. As part of this, we would like to invite families in to watch our Harvest Assembly. These will take place in the school hall on the following dates:

Tuesday 1st October: 9am Year R and 1 and 2.45pm Year 2 and 3

Wednesday 2nd October: 9am Year 4 and 5 and 2.45pm Year 6

Please enter the school via the main school office.

As part of the celebrations, we will also be collecting food that we will be donating to Thanet Food Bank. We will be taking donations between Wednesday 25th September and Monday 30th September. If you are able to donate, the food bank accepts any tinned, jarred or packet foods that are in date. As a celebration of the donations all children will be entered into a draw to win last years' celebration teddy bears, Kenneth and Susan.

Other News

-With Harvest Assembly approaching, can children who asked for lines please practise these at home, ready for 1^st October.

-We will now be completing regular times tables quizzes. This term we are focussing on our 2 times tables. Please be sure to practise with your child at home, another great way for them to practise is to play ‘Jamming’ on TTRS and ensure only ‘2’ times tables are selected.

- Year 3 children should be reading 4x weekly. Please ensure you are reading with your child as much as possible to support them in their reading progress and make a note of this in their Reading Record.

- AR and TTRS information should be with you now. AR and TTRS now have matching logins, your children should now be provided with these. 

- Read at 3 will be happening every Friday in the Year 3 classrooms.

Dates to remember

Friday 27th September – Reading and Writing in Reception parents meeting at 2.45pm in school hall

Tuesday 1st October – 2.45pm Year 2 and 3 Harvest assembly for parents

Saturday 5th October – Cross Country

Tuesday 8th October – Flu vaccines

Friday 11th October – Fancy dress Disco Year 1, 2 and 3 from 3.15-4.15pm and Year 4, 5 and 6 4.30pm-5.30pm (Reception do not join us for this disco, as they can find it a little overwhelming)

Thursday 24th October – Parents invited into look at children’s books at 3.15pm

Friday 25th October – Inset day – School closed to children