Class Teacher: Miss Waddington
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Brennan and Mrs Burnett
Welcome to Hazel Class. This Class contains Year 3 children only and is part of Lower Key Stage 2.
Please check this page regularly to see updates of what we are learning.
Drop off time: 8.30am
Drop off/collection point: Gates to KS2 yard
Morning playtime: 10.15am
Lunchtime: 12.30pm-1.00pm
Afternoon playtime: 1.45pm
Collection time: 3.00pm
We strongly believe that all children should experience high quality books that enhance literacy skills and inspire them to read. We aim for children to develop a love of reading and this will help motivate them to write. Here are some documents that will help you with our ‘School Improvement Priority 1 – Reading’
To help with this we are sharing a fabulous and highly recommended list of ‘100 Books to Read…’
Reading Spine takes place daily in every classroom where the children are read to. Each of the books help to develop the imagination of our children and equips them with language. We want our school to be a place where children are read to, enjoy, discuss and work with high quality books. We use the Pie Corbett Reading Spine so that children have access to high quality texts and develop a love for reading!
The children will develop their skills both orally and through written responses. We enjoy reading spine each day, which also helps develop a love of reading. We also use Word of The Day to help develop vocabulary.
Writing
This half term we have been using the text “The Iron Man” for our writing. We have looked at the character, the setting and events in the first two chapters of “The Iron Man”. We will be looking at non – chronological reports based on the Romans and writing our own.
Spelling
Spellings will be given out each Friday and there will be a spelling quiz the following Friday. We will practise spellings every day. Please practise at home too.
This half term, we will be learning all about fractions in our daily Maths lesson. We will also move on to measurement. Times tables are important so please practise times tables on TT Rockstars. We will also practise times tables in class.
In our Religious Education lessons, we will be studying the question “Which Rules Should We Follow?” We will also be finding out about the “People of God”.
Remembrance Day
Take a look below at our contribution to the Remembrance Day display.
We will continue to look at our four themes as we reconnect as a class and a school; self-efficacy, hope, gratitude and connectedness. We are thinking about all that we are hopeful for, and grateful for as well as how we are important, how we make a difference and how we can support and encourage our friends when we are finding things difficult.
This half term, our topic will be “How did that blossom become an apple?” We will identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants. We will also learn what plants need for life and growth.
In Physical Education lessons, we will be developing our fundamental movement skills such as throwing and catching. We will also be learning about rounders and cricket.
In Geography, we will be learning about the differences between living in Briercliffe and a city. We will also be learning how to read maps.
We will be continuing with online safety and also learning about touch typing.
Our Music topic is all about Disco! The themes are friendship, hope and unity.
In Spanish lessons, we will be learning about the Spanish for fruit and breakfast items.
