Year 3 Galaxy Class
Teacher: Mrs Christopher
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Jones
Welcome to Galaxy Class Page
We hope you find this page a useful resource throughout the school year and will update it every half-term with new learning foci, key dates, class information and homework. Should you have any additional questions for us, Mrs Jones and I are always happy to help.
Important Class Information
PE this year will take place on Wednesday and Friday each week. Can all children come to school in their PE kits with appropriate layers. PE shorts should be worn underneath tracksuit bottoms.
Reading books will be changed every Tuesday and Friday
Children will be eating lunch in their houses (Apollo, Endeavour, Phoenix, Galileo) this provides them with the opportunity to mix with other year groups and to make new friends. Houses will be rotated regularly.
Homework
As children need to demonstrate presenting skills as part of their speaking and listening expectations, the homework this term will be to present a topic about Ancient Greece to the rest of the class. The topic could be about a particular person such as Sokratis or a place such as Athens but the choice is theirs! Children can use written notes, PowerPoint or whatever tools they would like to support them. Each child will have two minutes to present their homework during the last week of term.
Key Dates
7th June: Athletics event at Cotswold School.
14th June, 7pm: 'Horse Racing' evening.
16th June: Dance Festival.
4th July: School sports day.
12th July: School reports.
13th July: School summer fete.
15th July: Moving up day.
19th July-Last day of term 2:00 finish
Curriculum
The topic for our final term of this school year is 'The Olympics'. We will be learning about the history of the biggest sporting event on the ancient Greek calendar, and how it compares with the Olympics we will all be enjoying over 2,700 years later. Geography lessons will enable children to locate some of the nations competing in the Olympics and to identify capital cities using an atlas. They will also use their knowledge of human and physical geography to label significant features across the world. Science will focus on giving children an understanding of nutrition, the different types of nutrition and where it comes from. They will also be examining the functions of the skeleton and muscles in the human body. Art this term will be taking a look at abstract and concrete forms, with children learning how to draw shapes in 2D and 3D as well as sculpting using clay. PSHE will support children as they discuss and understand the differences between men and women, and look at the role of antibiotics and good hygiene in the prevention of infectious diseases.
English
In English, children will be making good use of imperative (bossy) verbs to write instructions. We will then be using dialogue between characters to create a myth.
Maths
Children will be revisiting previous learning, including shape and angles, four operations, fractions and measure as well as problem solving.
Maths Passport: Regular practise of Maths Passport targets helps pupils to retain knowledge and opens the door to all mathematical learning.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils learn their times tables up to the 12 x and know these by the end of year 4 this will prepare them for the statutory times table test.
Useful websites for times table practise:
Thank you for your continued support, it makes such a huge difference to your child's learning. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.
Warm regards
Mrs Christopher