Support Staff - Mrs King and Mrs Ward

Welcome to Term 3

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the next term. We have got some exciting things coming up this term, including our performance of Oliver. It is still quite chilly outside so please can you make sure that your child has a coat every day. Could you also make sure that your child has their name on everything so that they are easy to find.

Continue to read at home and question children on what they have read for comprehension skills.

Spellings will be on the website, sent out as a paper copy to home and tested weekly.

PE 

PE Magpies
Monday – netball
Wednesday - dance
Thursday – gymnastics
PE Red Kites
Wednesday – dance
Thursday – gymnastics
Friday - netball

When the children have PE they should continue to wear their Bitham Brook PE kit into school with the school jumper over the top (if weather conditions require a jumper).  Please note the Bitham Brook PE kit is a plain white t-shirt and black shorts/leggings/tracksuit with trainers.  Other sports clothing is not acceptable as it is important, that as a school, we have pride in our appearance.  It is important that children do not attend school in casual clothing as we want to maintain the children's sense of education being important; pride in their appearance; and belonging to Bitham Brook.

The Queen's Nose by Dick King Smith

Year 3 learning this term

Maths  

• Multiplication and division

• Time

Writing

Our writing will be linked to our class book for the term, The Queen’s Nose by Dick King Smith. We will be writing non-chronological reports on rabbits and persuasive adverts for selling something!

Reading

During reading, we will be working our way through our class book, The Queen’s Nose by Dick King Smith. We will be focusing on reading fluently, exploring and using vocabulary, and retrieving and making inferences about what we have read.

PSHE

Our PSHE this term is ‘Dreams and Goals’. Throughout this unit, we will be learning about seeing how we can set ourselves challenges and how we can achieve them

RE

In RE we will be learning about how people make moral decisions and what things need to be considered.

Science

In science, we will be looking at rocks, how to recognise different rock types and how fossils are formed underground

Art

In art, we will looking at printmaking and making our own monoprints inspired by Neil Bousfield

French

In French, we will looking at vocabulary for different activities and description words.

Musical Theatre

In musical theatre, we will be beginning with our production of Oliver before moving onto a showcase of different songs, dances and drama pieces

 Geography

In geography, we will be looking at volcanoes, how they are formed and how they impact the world. This links well with our science learning this term.

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