Cressing Primary School

Dear Parents,

The Class 3 team would like to say a HUGE welcome to Year 3! It has been a great start so far, with the children settling into Year 3 brilliantly and already becoming used to the routines and expectations set in Year 3. With this, it means we have been able to do lots of exciting learning already!

This Term’s Learning

Our Topic this half-term is ‘The Stone Age’. This is one of our History units. Throughout this half-term lots of our learning will be focused on The Stone Age; where we will be writing an information text all about The Stone Age, teaching others about this time in history, along with creating cave drawings!

Other exciting things we will be learning about this half term include, looking at the human body and rocks, fossils and soils in Science, computing systems and how they work, and how people commit to a religion around the world in different ways. In Year 3, we also begin learning a new language - French! We will discover all about France, learn how to say and write different greetings and learn how to say and write different animals. In Maths, we will continue to practice our arithmetic skills, place value of numbers up to 1000, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Our class text is – The Wild Robot. Which we all have been loving already!

This half-term we also have our Wellbeing Week, which links into our science lessons and our PSHE lessons, where we are looking at ‘Being Ourselves’. We will also be talking about our Cressing C this half term – Caring. Speaking about ways we can be caring to others and the environment around us and linking in with ‘Harvest’ and why it is so important, especially at this time of year.

Reading:

Please support your child to read frequently each week. All children have been sent home with an accelerated reader book, at their current reading level. Reading should be recorded in their reading diaries, and please make sure to discuss your child’s books with them. As children are now beginning to read more fluently, a big focus in Year 3, is on reading comprehension. Asking children questions about what they have read/the characters/settings, will be key to develop children’s understanding of the texts they are now reading.

Quizzing of their books can be done either at home or at school. If your child wishes to quiz at home, the AR link is

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/2037900

and your child’s username and password can be found at the front of their reading record. Once logged in, please click on the orange book and this will take you to where you can search for the book.

If you have any trouble logging in, please do not hesitate to speak to us.

Times Tables:

At the front of your child’s reading diaries is their ‘Times Tables Rock Star’ username and password. Along with a recapping, their 2s, 5s, and 10s, from Year 2, we will also be learning the 3s, 4s and 8s in Year 3. Times Table Rock Stars will focus on these times tables but will also allow your children to challenge themselves with other multiplication and division facts too!

We will be looking weekly at who is on the leader board! 

Class Dojo:

It has been brilliant seeing all the children and yourselves engage with Class Dojo already. Children are eager to get points through being caring, showing excellent listening, showing resilience, teamwork and working hard, along with showing our Cressing C’s throughout the day! We will continue to update Class Dojo, on what we get up to throughout the week and key events that are happening throughout our class and the school.

Home Learning:

The children's home learning is now online, set on a Friday and expected to be completed by the following Thursday. They will alternate between maths and English tasks, set each week.

Maths - Maths.co.uk

Spelling - Spag.com

At the front of your child’s reading diaries is their Maths/Spelling usernames and passwords.

Letters will also be sent home with these details too - but we do have spares, if needed!

Extra Bits:

• PE days are Monday and Friday.

During the Spring Term, the children will go swimming (We will keep you updated on this closer to the time!)

Please make sure your child completes their homework as independently as possible as this allows us to see your child’s progress with what they have learnt in school. Your child will have a weekly maths task, or English task.

• If you need to contact us urgently, please do this through the office- they will forward the email to us. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries or concerns.

We look forward to working alongside you to help your child achieve their very best!

Miss Kelly, Miss Wild, Miss Belmont and Mrs Morgan 😊