Class Teacher: Mr Holt
Teaching Assistant: Miss McCoskery, Mrs Burnett and Mrs Parker
Welcome to Class 3. 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.
We have been working really hard with our times tables this half term. We have been looking specifically at the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables. We have been identifying each pattern on the 100 square below.
In English we have been looking at folk tales. Our story has been ‘The Tin Forest’. This is about an old man who lives in a small house, on top of a big hill in the middle of nowhere filled with all of the rubbish that nobody wants. Every night he has a dream. He dreams of a forest filled with beautiful flowers and wild animals. One day the old man sees a metal light that looks like a flower. This gives him an idea and the old man uses the rubbish to make his dream come true. What do you think the old man did?
In RE we have been looking at God, David and the Psalms. We have shared the story of David and Goliath and looked at what it means to be brave and have courage.
In Science we have been looking at teeth and the digestive system. We have been looking at drinks that harm our teeth and drinks that keep our teeth healthy. As the half term closes we will be conducting a science experiment on the stomach which will highlight to us how food is broken down and used as energy. As well as this, we will also find out where our food waste goes.
In Maths we have been looking at place value. We worked together in groups to work out what the missing numbers could be on the number line as well as what the missing number patterns could be.
In PE we have been studying dance linked to street dancing. We have been fortunate to have a dance coach come into school and teach class 3 everything about street dancing. The children have got really involved and have even made up some of their own street dance moves. Watch out for the next ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ superstar!
Last week we had a day to celebrate RE linked to different subjects that we study in school. As part of Key Stage 2 we visited each class and participated in carousel activities. The children in class 3 thoroughly enjoyed the day as well as gaining more knowledge through the activities and subjects studied.
In topic this half term we have been studying World War 2. We have been looking at how the Blitz affected people in Britain as well as what it might have been like as a child evacuee. How would you have felt if you were a child evacuee?
This week we celebrated science day in school. This involved all of the children from Key Stage 2 conducting a science experiment with children from Key Stage One. Class 3 had the opportunity to work alongside class 2. Due to our topic being all about teeth and the digestive system we conducted our experiment on the stomach. This involved using a plastic bag, crunched up cream crackers, bread, water, orange juice and coca-cola. As we mixed the ingredients together we saw how the stomach broke down our food. The food looked very mushy but it gave us an insight into how the acid breaks down food in our stomach for digestion.
