Year 3 - Dragonfly Class

Welcome to Dragonfly Class

Class Teacher: Mrs Cole

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Sobhani

 

Welcome to Term 2

This is our last term in our old school, so we are excited to make lasting memories before he head into the New Build.

Enquiry Question – History: Would you prefer to have lived in the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age? 

We will learn about prehistory and understand a timeline including AD and BC eras. We will explore the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age, investigating how artefacts can give evidence into the life of humans living in these times. The changes between the eras will be identified to help us decide which period we would have preferred to live in.

 

Maths 

Addition and Subtraction, multiplication and division

We will continue learing addition and subtraction into the hundreds up to 1,000. We will be using varying methods and strategies including the column method using Place Value techniques they learnt in Term 1. We will then be moving onto multiplication and division. Learning new strategies and methods to solve equations.

It is important that the children practice their timetables, in particular their 2's, 5's and 10's and moving on to learn the 3 and 4 times tables.

English

Reading - The Stolen Spear by Saviour Pirotta

We will be reading The Stolen Spear, which is set around the Orkney Islands in Scotland. A young boy called Wolf sets off on an adventure to solve a mystery. He journeys from his village now known as Skara Brae to a wider, ancient world on the cusp of a new age.

Writing

We will be using a couple of different texts this term to help inspire our writing. These books both have connections to the Stone Age and will help us to realise our history enquiry too. We will be looking at instructional writing, narrative and speech.

Forest School ​​ ​​

Our Forest School day is now Thursday. This term the class will be split into two groups. The first group will go to Forest School for the first three weeks of term, the second group will go the next three weeks. Those children not attending forest school will be in class completing some targeted learning.

The groups will be notified during the first week of term.

On forest school days - 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 Tuesday afternoons. This term, we will be learning Dance in the school hall. Please send the children in to school wearing their PE kits. Please ensure the PE kits are suitable for indoor PE - A pair of indoor PE shoes should be brought to school to change for PE. School shoes are still needed for the classroom.

 

The Term 2 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