Class Teacher: Mr Stitcher
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Brennan
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.
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!
We will be learning the skills of reading and writing. Our non-fiction unit will consist of learning how to write and formulate or own tourist guide linked to our class topic of the Mediterranean. Our core fiction text will be ‘A Bear Called Paddington’ and we will be looking at how to write quality character descriptions. We will continue to use Talk 4 Writing across our English units to rehearse the texts and then innovate them.
The PE Days for Hazel are Monday and Friday. On these days, Hazel Class pupils need to come to school in their outdoor PE kit. This includes a white top, navy tracksuit bottoms, navy jacket/waterproof coat and a pair of trainers.
Our unit will be all animals, including humans and we will be looking at skeletons and movement. Children will investigate if they are as fast as Usain Bolt and what it is that makes him so quick! We will be looking at nutrition and what different types of animals eat.
In art, we will be looking at the work of children’s books illustrators and studying some of the techniques they use to create their images. We will be practising using these techniques to create our own art work.
We will be looking at online safety. Children will learn how to use the internet responsibly and how to avoid any dangers. Children will also learn how to use passwords appropriately through use of Purple Mash.
We will be looking at numbers and securing our place value knowledge. As well as this, we will be looking at whole number addition and subtraction while applying this to problem solving and reasoning. We will continue to develop our knowledge of multiplication and division through Times Table Rockstars to improve our speed and accuracy when recalling.
We will learn a lot about why people are called to serve God. We will be thinking about times we have been asked to do things and why people sometimes do things for others even if it makes life harder for them.
