Year 3 - Dragonfly Class

Welcome to Dragonfly Class

Class Teacher: Mrs Cole

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Sobhani

Welcome to Term 1

Welcome to Year 3, Dragonfly class. I hope you all had an amazing summer holiday and are now ready to continue your learning journey in Lower Key Stage 2. We have lots of new and exciting learning and challenges this year and I am very excited to see how much progress you will make.

 

English

We are starting the term looking at the book The Hodgeheg. This will help the children to describe characters, settings and start to use some speech too. It is a lovely book, which will engage and motivate them to produce some wonderful pieces of writing. 

We will be reading You're A Bad Man, Mr Gum! Why does he dislike children and animals and fun? Why is the Fairy angry and who is Jake the Dog? This will be a fun read which the children will help to read throughout the term. 

 

Maths - Place Value, Addition and Subtraction

We will continue using Place Value techniques to help the children to grasp mathematical strategies in addition and subtraction. We will be working with numbers up to 100. It is important that the children practice their timetables, in particular their 2's, 5's and 10's. We will be moving on to learn the 3 and 4 times tables soon too. 

Geography

In geography our enquiry is 'Are all settlements the same?'. We will learn how to locate major cities, physical and human features of different regions, including Canterbury, and investigate the difference between rural and urban areas. This will lead to describing who lives in different areas. We will start to use maps, atlases and digital maps to discover why we use a scale.

  

 

Home Reading - we encourage all children to read with an adult at home every day. This not only helps their fluency of reading, but also helps them to improve their writing too. Thank you in advance for your suppport with this. 

 

Forest School​​

Our Forest School days are: Wednesdays. We take part in Forest school ever other week. 

Wednesday 3rd and 17th September. 1st and 15th October.

Please send your child into school wearing their school uniform with a Forest School kit in a bag. Please ensure the Forest School clothes are appropriate for the weather that day.

Please send in wellies that can be kept in school to utilise the outdoor learning spaces every day, not just for Forest School.

 

PE

Our PE lessons will be on a Thursday afternoon. This term, we will be learning Football. Please send the children into school wearring their PE kits. Please ensure the PE kits are suitable for outdoor PE - we will try and learn outside when the weather allows. A pair of PE outdoor shoes should be brought to school to change for PE. Indoor shoes are still needed for the classroom. (The field is likely to start getting very muddy and you can't play football in wellies!)

The Term 1 vocabulary sheets below will help you to know more about what your child will be learning this term. 

Teachers can be contacted via Class Dojo if you have any questions or queries. 

Please click here to access extra phonics, reading and spelling resources.

Please click here to access links to other useful home learning resources published online.

If you are unsure of any log in details please contact the teacher through Class Dojo or email office@pilgrims-way.kent.sch.uk