Dear Parents/Carers

The children have new spellings. One group is looking at adding the ‘ly’ suffix. The other group is looking at adding at the /u/ sound spelt ‘o’. They can access their spellings on both SpellingShed and on the sheets I am sending home. TT Rockstars will be changing on Sunday to a new set of times tables.

In maths this week we have been starting to explore time. We learnt about the months of the year and how many days are in each month. We learnt how to use Roman numerals and today we learnt to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes. Next week we are learning to tell the time to the nearest minute, am/pm, 12 and 24 hour time and finding durations.

In English we have been learning how to use persuasive language. We have learnt how to use rhetorical questions to persuade as well as comparative and superlative adjectives. Today the children wrote their letters to the character Jemmy Button trying to persuade him to come to London with them. We had a lot of fantastic writing and the children have enjoyed learning about Jemmy Button a lot.

In our Topic lesson we became travel guides and created brochures talking about the different methods of transport around London. In Science today we looked at the bones in our body. The children created their own skeletons and we talked about the difference between the common names and scientific names of bones. In R.E. we have been exploring liturgy and how the church can help us to feel closer to God.

Next week we are having the St. Matthew’s book week. The theme of the week is pure imagination with a focus on poetry. We will be having an off-timetable mix up day on Tuesday and meeting a poetry author on Friday. I hope you have a good day on Thursday when the school is closed.

Half-term Project

The project this half-term is focusing on London. The children need to research something about London to present to the class. They can present it in any form that they choose. Last year we had PowerPoints, posters, models, stories and brochures. I have discussed it with the children and they understand what they need to do. It will be due in the week after half term – the 3rd of June

This letter and the spellings will be uploaded to the Year 3 blog

As always if there are any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Mr Stocking and the Year 3 team