Year 3 - Kingfisher Class

Welcome to Kingfisher Class

Class Teacher: Mr Van-Walwyk

Teaching Assistants: Miss Potts

Welcome to Term 2

This term we will be learning lots of new interesting topics and completing our first Year 3 assessments too.

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

We will learn be looking at prehistory and understand a timeline including AD and BC eras. We will explore the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age, we will be discovering how we know about the past and learn more facts.

 

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.

 

Maths - Addition and Subtraction, multiplication and division

We will continue learning 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.

 

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.

 

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 regarding the home learning. 

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