Meet Our Staff

3 Beech

Teacher: Mrs R. Dennis

Teaching Assistant: Miss C Brown

3 Cedar

Teacher: Miss L P-Cope

Teaching Assistant: Miss C Amos

Learning Support Assistant: Ms K Turpin

Key Information

PE

3 Beech- Tuesday and Thursday

3 Cedar- Thursday and Friday

Your child is to come in to school in their PE kit on these days.

Homework

Home work is sent home on a Wednesday and due in on a Monday
• Read every day (and discuss their reading)
• Practice spelling patterns and apply these to known and new spellings

Termly Update

Summer 1 

This half term has been a busy one!!

In English we have looked at poetry including calligrams and free verse. The children were all able to complete their own calligrams about their pet (or dream pet) and created some wonderful free verse poems about their street using some incredible onomatopoeia.

For our geography rivers and water cycle topic, we have explored the different types of bodies of water and how a river is formed. The children all worked really hard and created some wonderful dioramas of rivers from source to mouth.

In art we have studied the artist Monet and discussed the art of water colours and how we can change the tone and warmth of our colours by mixing. We have also looked at different water colour techniques and how they affect the other medium on the paper. The children were all rather surprised at how we can ‘erase’ water colour using a rubber!

In PE we have been developing our tennis skills and picked up tennis expertise from a free tennis session with an experienced tennis coach. The children were all impeccably behaved for this and the whole of the year 3 team were very proud of them all.

Spring 2

This half term, Year 3 have been looking at a wide range of books, including the whole school book of Hermelin. We have had some interesting discussions and produced lots of work in English based on the children’s own relationship with writing as well as the different purposes of writing.

In Maths we have focussed on multiplication and division and the children have all learnt various ways to multiply one and two digit numbers together. We have also looked at how to apply this knowledge to word problems and finding fractions of an amount.

We have also had the privilege of having the University of Herts in to visit us and help us to learn about the different career paths in science. The children have been able to become aerospace engineers and make rockets out of paper, straws and balloons, as well as looking at how a thermal imaging camera can help a sports technologist. They were also able to become geologists and discover and classify different rocks.

This term has been so busy for Year 3!

We have become archaeologists in History when we were learning about the Stone Age, scientists when learning about magnets and forces – including looking at the uses of magnets in recycling and illustrators in Design and Technology when we created our own pop-up books.

We have worked hard on our mathematic skills, applying them and in particular learning our Times Tables and formal written methods of addition and subtraction.

In English, we have been doing a lot of writing and we were even able to become reporters and wrote reports based on some rather interesting jobs that the children would like to do as they grow older.