Another brilliant week for Year 3! This week has been a cold one, but we took inspiration from the frosty mornings and created some beautiful winter-themed art. Take a look at what we got up to this week!

Guided Reading

In Guided Reading, we continued our learning on The Green Ship by Quentin Blake as we explored different books that he has illustrated. We looked at his fascinating joint career with Roald Dahl and got the chance to freely explore many of their books.  We ended the week by learning about Blake’s incredible life and were inspired by the many accomplishments he has achieved.

Next week, we will be beginning our new text ‘The Princess and the White Bear King’.  

English

In English this week, we wrote a lengthy retelling of the Green Ship, but excitingly created our own alternative endings! We were careful to include all the writing devices we have been practising, such as FANBOYS (coordinating conjunctions), speech using inverted commas and varied vocabulary.  

Next week, we will move onto ‘The Princess and the White Bear King’.   

Maths

In Maths this week we began our learning on Measurement, focussing on m, cm and mm. We began by practising our practical measuring skills using rulers. Next we began converting measurements with the knowledge that 100cm=1m and 10mm=1cm. We applied our column method skills when adding and subtracting measurements and even touched on exchanging.   

Next week in Maths we will be looking at Measurement, focussing on g and kg.

Fact of the week

Next week, the fact of the week is 3x3=9

Thematic

In the Thematic this week we continued our learning on our topic ‘Feel the Force, See the Light’. We explored light using torches, identifying how this impacts on different materials depending on whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque. We experimented with the reflectiveness of different materials and discussed how UV rays can impact on our eyes' health. In Art, we created beautiful Pointillism Silhouette Winter landscapes.

Home Learning

Continuing on from Maths learning, can you measure a variety of objects around your house? You could use a ruler or tape measure, but stick to cm! Once finished, if you want an extra challenge, try converting your measurements into mm!

Other News

-With the weather getting colder, please ensure your child comes to school with a coat each day.

-We will now be completing regular timetable quizzes. This term we are focussing on our 5, 10 and 3 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 2s, 5s and 10s have been selected. If your child is beginning to find this easy, try adding in 3s! It would also be helpful for your children to begin playing Garage more regularly.

- Year 3 children should read 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.

Christmas Fair

On Wednesday 11th December, we will be holding our School Christmas Fair. This will run from 3.15pm-4.30pm, with a Christmas sing-along led by our school choir, which will be at 4pm. Stalls will include a Christmas raffle, tombola, hot food and drinks, guess the sweets in the stocking, splat the sprout, crack the code and many more. This event will take place on the school field (weather permitting) so wrap up warm.

This year the Christmas raffle will work in a slightly different way. We have some big cash prizes, with first prize being £100 and second prize being £50. We will send home a book of tickets. We ask you return any ticket stubs you wish to buy, with the correct money. We also ask you send back any unbought tickets. There will also be tickets available to purchase on the day.

In order to run some of the stalls, we do need to ask for some donations. We are aware of the financial pressures on families at this time of year, so all donations are of course voluntary, and we are grateful for any received. We ask for all donations to come into school on Tuesday 10th December.

We will be running a ‘Take home a Teddy’ stall. If you have any good quality, unwanted cuddly toys please send them into school on Tuesday 10th December to be used on this stall.

We will also be running a Tombola stall. We ask that you send in a bottle of drink for this. Again, we ask that his is sent into school on Tuesday 10th December

Lastly, we will also be running our traditional ‘White Bag’ stall. All children will bring home a white bag on Friday 29th November. We ask that your child decorates the bag, and you pop a small gift inside (sweets, notepad, pens, small toy etc). Can this also be returned to school on Tuesday 10th December.

If you wish to have a stall to sell gifts, then we will also be selling pitches for £15. Contact Mrs Cheshire at hannah.cheshire@chiltonprimary.co.uk if you wish to rent a pitch.

Dates

6th December – Year 3 and 5 Come Dine with Me

11th December – Chilton Christmas Fair from 3.15 – 4.30

17th December – Year 3 and 4 Church performance at 2pm

19th December – Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 Christmas party day (party clothes to be worn)

20th December – Christmas jumper day (children can wear usual school uniform with a Christmas jumper)

20th December – School Christmas dinner

20th December – Last day of school; School finishes at 2pm; No after school club on this day