Dear Parents/Carers

We’re now well into our Summer term and the children have been working hard. I am sending home an extra maths sheet this week as a recap of the fraction work we have been looking at. It will have a variety of fluency and reasoning challenges for the children to work on.

The children have new spellings. One group is looking at changing words ending in ‘le’ to ‘ly’. The other group is looking at adding ‘ed’ to words ending in consonants. They can access their spellings on both SpellingShed and on the sheets I am sending home. SpellingShed participation has understandably dropped after not having it for a few weeks. If you could encourage the children to use it at home as it is an important part of the school curriculum. TT Rockstars will be changing on Sunday to a new set of times tables.

In Maths we finally finished our final objective for fractions. This week we have learnt how to compare, order, add and subtract fractions. The work I am sending home is the end of module quiz we have been doing in class. If the children could complete it over the weekend and bring it in for Tuesday that would be excellent as next week we are consolidating our learning before moving on to time the week after.

In English we have finished our work on acrostic poems. Today the children wrote their poems about the character Jemmy Button. From the ones I have read so far they are full of exciting descriptive language. We have had a focus on using exciting similes to help us describe Jemmy, his jungle and London.

In our Topic lesson we made timelines to mark important moments in the history and development of London, travelling from London’s founding in 43AD to the 2012 London Olympics

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

Blogs – This letter will be the first one that will also be uploaded to the Year 3 blog. I will also be posting both spelling lists on there if you are unable to access the children’s spellings.

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

Mr Stocking and the Year 3 team