Support Staff - Mrs King and Mrs Ward

Welcome to Term 2
We have another busy term again as we head towards Christmas. As the months get colder, please can you make sure that your child has a coat everyday. 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 – football
Wednesday - dance
Thursday – football
PE Red Kites
Wednesday – dance
Thursday – football
Friday - 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.

Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman

Year 3 learning this term

Maths  

Addition and subtraction
Length and perimeter

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Writing

Our writing will be linked to our class book for the term, Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman. We will be writing diary entries and informal letters from the perspectives of different characters from the book.

Reading

During reading, we will be working our way through our class book, Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman. 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 ‘Celebrating differences’. Throughout this unit, we will be learning about seeing how we are all the same whilst being different.

Science

In science, we will be looking at light and shadow and how light effects how we see.

DT

In design technology we will be looking at designing and creating a meal that is healthy, appealing and low cost – stuffed peppers!

French

In French, we will looking at the vocabulary for different items found at home and in the classroom whilst continuing our understanding of French grammar.

Music

In music, we will be developing our production of Oliver and working towards our singing at Christmas.

 History

In history we will looking at the pre-history of Britain and making comparisons between the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.

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