SYCAMORE CLASS

YEAR 3

MRs Armstrong-McCLEan

2024-25

Autumn Term

Welcome to our class page! Hopefully you will find this page useful. On our class page we have details of our topics for this half term as well as other useful information about Sycamore Class and websites that we use to help our learning. We love to share what we learn in school every day, so please follow us on our Facebook page to see what we get up to on a daily basis.

Mrs Armstrong-McClean

What will we be learning about this half term?

English

1^st half term-Taking Flight (Animation), Stone Age Boy- Satoshi Kitamura, UG- Boy Genius of the Stone Age- Raymond Briggs

2^nd half term-Dream Giver (Animation), BFG- Roald Dahl, George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

Maths

Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

R.E.

1^st half term- What is it like for someone to follow God? The Big Story recap.

2^nd half term- What is the Trinity and why is it important for Christians?

Science

1st half term- Rocks, soils and fossils

2nd half term- Health and movement

History - 1st half term

Who were Britain’s’ first builders? Stone Age

Geography - 2nd half term

Why do we have cities?

Art - 1st half term

LS Lowry

DT - 2nd half term

Mechanical systems – levers and linkages

P.E.

1st half term-Tennis, Outdoor and Adventurous

2nd half term-Gymnastics 1, Outdoor and Adventurous

Music - 2nd half term

Glockenspiel stage 1

French - 1st half term

Getting to know you

PSHE / RSE –

1st half term-Being me in my world.

2nd half term- Celebrating difference

Computing

1st half term-Online Safety and Coding

2nd half term-Spreadsheets

Key information

Arrival/collection

Our arrival time each morning is 8.45-9.00am and we leave at 3.15pm.

What to bring to school

The children should bring in a water bottle which they will take home each day as well as their packed lunch (if they do not receive a school lunch). They do not need any other equipment such as pencil cases, stationary etc as they will have everything they need at their own desk.

Snacks

Children are allowed to bring a ‘healthy’ snack to school for breaktime. However, this must be either a piece of fruit or breakfast/cereal bar. Thank you for your cooperation.

PE days

Our PE days are a Wednesday and a Friday. On these days, the children should come into school wearing their PE kit. They do not need to bring in their normal school uniform to get changed into, they will just stay in their PE kit all day. PE kit is: trainers, white PE t-shirt, purple shorts or plain black tracksuit bottoms, purple hoodie or purple school jumper.

Homework

Spellings

Spellings will be posted on Class Dojo for the term and children will have the same list for 1 week starting from the week beginning 9.2.2024. It would be great if the children completed fun activities at home and we will be learning these spellings in class throughout the week.

www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling

Year and Year 4 Common Exception Words

Reading

The children are encouraged to read a variety of texts at home and share a love of reading with parents. Try to read Accelerated Reader/ Home Reading Books at least 3x per week. Remember to bring your Accelerated Reader book back into school each day. There will be an opportunity to change library books every Friday.

Times tables

Try to practise your times tables 3x per week. Suggested websites and apps to help to practise times tables include:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

https://www.timestables.co.uk

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button