Welcome to Blackbird Class! 

WELCOME TO YEAR 3!

Class team

Class Teacher: Mrs Grassi-Young 

Teaching Assistants: Miss Perkins and Mrs Lee

Welcome everyone back to school for the start of Term 1! I am really looking forward to seeing you all back in school and getting to know you all over the coming year.

Please have a look below for any important information this term which will be updated when needed. I will post any important updates to our Class Dojo page and I will also post regular weekly updates to share our exciting learning from the week. If you have any further queries please feel free to contact us.

Mrs Grassi-Young

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Term 1 Overview
Below is an overview of what there is to look forward to this term.

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English

 In English this term, we will be starting our class book ‘Stig of the Dump’.We will begin by writing a character description based on the characters from our story, ensuring our capital letters and full stops are used accurately to show beginning and endings of sentences, alongside use of capital letters for proper nouns. We will also be revisiting expanded noun phrases and challenging ourselves to use more ambitious adjectives to captivate the reader. We will then move on to write setting descriptions using the five senses to describe and adverbs to improve our writing.

Spellings
Children will receive 10 spelling words on a Monday that are focused on our spelling rule of the week and will then be given a spelling test on Friday. By Week 2, children will have their Spelling shed logins in their reading records so they can practise the rules using online games throughout the week.

Reading
Reading is a fundamental skill children need to be practising daily in order to access all aspects of our exciting but challenging curriculum. The expectation is that children read daily and to discuss what they have read as per the home school agreement. They also must hand in reading records daily in order for TA’s to sign them.

Bookopoly!

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Maths
At Woodchurch, our maths scheme we follow is White Rose Maths and below you will find an overview of the year. If we feel the children need extra consolidation time on specific units, then the timings may be adjusted to allow for this.

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Connected Curriculum

Our first main driver topic is ‘Through the Ages’ which we will be learning about throughout term 1 and term 2. The project teaches children about historical chronology in relation to the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. The children will be utilising timelines, artefacts and historical sources to expand their knowledge on this period of time.

Useful information

Children should have a water bottle and their reading book/reading record in school daily.

PE is on a Monday and Wednesday for this term and children will be learning basketball and multi-skills.  Children should have a PE kit in school, consisting of a T-shirt in their house colour, black jogging bottoms, or shorts, a PE sweatshirt and outdoor trainers/plimsolls.

Reminder: all children need to have earrings removed, or taped over and long hair tied back.