Support Staff - Mrs King and Mrs Ward

Welcome to Term 4

We hope you all had a lovely, relaxed half term break! We have our school trip to Stonehenge this term on Thursday 19^th March. Please can you make sure that your child has a waterproof coat every day. Could you also make sure that your child has their name on everything so that they are easy to find.

Please be reminded that weekly spellings and games can be accessed via the Spelling Shed website. If you are having any difficulties accessing anything on the website, please let us know. Children now also have access to TT Rock Stars and should use the website whenever possible.

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 

Monday – football

Wednesday - dance

Thursday – football

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.

Fearless Fairy Tales

Year 3 learning this term

Maths  

• Time
• Fractions

Writing

Our writing will be linked to our class book for the term, ‘Fearless Fairy Tales.’ We will be writing a narrative piece in 2 halves – our first unit will focus on the setting and character description, the second half on developing the plot with a build up, dilemma and resolution.

Reading

During reading, we will be working our way through our class book, ‘Fearless Fairy Tales’ by Konnie Huq and James Kay. We will be focusing on reading fluently, exploring and using vocabulary, retrieving information and making inferences about what we have read.              

PSHE

Our PSHE this term is ‘Healthy Me’.  Throughout this unit, we will be learning about all the ways we can keep our bodies safe and healthy including food and exercise, learning about what drugs are and being safe out and about.

RE

In RE we will be learning about Islamic beliefs, where they come from and how they are practised by Muslims.

Science

In science, we will be looking at plants including naming the different parts of a flower and the different jobs each part does.

DT

In DT, we will be learning about mechanisms and how we can use linkages to make a flapping bird toy.

French

In French, we will be learning to say what I and others have.

Musical Theatre

In musical theatre, we will be continuing with our mini production of Joseph which we hope to be performing in the summer.

 History

In history, we will be learning about another ancient civilisation – The Indus Valley – and drawing comparisons with what we have already learned about pre-historic Britain.

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