Learning in Willow Class
Welcome to Willow class. Mrs McShee is the class teacher and our class TA is Mrs Littleworth
Our class ethos is to be kind and respectful to everyone and everything, to always try our best and to try to think independently.
Homework is given on Mondays and should be completed by the following Monday.
Spellings follow the Twinkl spelling scheme and contain a different spelling rule each week. Tests are on Thursdays.
PE is on Wednesday afternoons and is taught by Mr Cox. This term will be hockey and badminton.
Values Education - We think about these values alongside our PSHE lessons and our assemblies.
January - Forgiveness
February - Loyalty
March - Respect
April - Generosity
This term...
Forest School for Willow Class begins on the 27th of February and runs for 5 weeks, until the 27th of March. It will be on Friday mornings during these dates.
English
In English this term we will be sharing our class book, ‘The girl who stole an elephant’ by Nizrana Farook. We will be using our comprehension skills to complete a range of activities around this story including, role play, hot seating, interviewing, reports, and persuasive writing.
We will continue to have a daily focus on key literacy skills such as reading, spelling, handwriting, punctuation and grammar.
Maths
Our school follows the scheme from 'Hamilton Trust'.
This term we will be studying addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, decimals, measures and negative numbers.
The year 3 pupils will be continuing to learn their 3s, 4s, and 8s times tables.
The year 4 pupils will be continuing to learn their 6s, 7s, 9s, 11s and 12s times tables.
In June, the year 4s will be participating in the Multiplication Tables Check (MTC). We will have lots of practice with adults and on iPads in order to prepare for this.
There are many games which you could play with your children to help them become more confident with their times tables. Both online and off. Please do ask.
Science
For the first half term, our science topic is electricity. We will be experimenting with insulators and conductors and finding faults within circuits. These lessons will be combined with our DT topic where we will be creating a working circuit and switch in order to turn a light on and off.
After the half term, Science will be about states of matter where we will experimenting with melting, freezing, evaporating and condensation.
Topic plans
Our History topic this half term is all about the Vikings. We will be learning about how they invaded parts of Britain and how the Anglo-Saxons tried to keep them away!
After half term, our Geography topic will be learning compass skills and orienteering to explore maps, build on our knowledge of the United Kingdom, and problem solve routes.
In Art, the children will be gaining inspiration from Ian Murphy and creating their own pieces of art using shading, line and tone with sketching pencils.
In Music, we will be creating and performing our own songs using Garage Band software.
For all other subjects, please take a look at our class planning sheet. This year we are following Year A.
Willow Class Plans
Expectations in Mathematics for Year 3