Welcome to

Peacock & Falcon Classes

2024/25

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Hope children and parents had a fabulous half term.

What an amazing start to our Place and Time subject with a visit to Taunton Museum! On our first day back in school, all of year 3 went to the museum to take part in various Tudor activities that helped the them have an insight into life as a Tudor person. Activities explored how people of the time wrote using quills and ink. Children then had the chance to make soap using similar methods from over 500 years ago. A Tudor lady, known as Sandy then showed us all around her very small Alms House where children were given an excellent chance to understand why life was so hard for people of the time. 

Our English studies will centre around The Divers Daughter.

By the end of the term, children will be looking to complete a narrative based on this book. 

A gripping heart-in-your-mouth adventure told by Eve, a Tudor girl who sets out on a dangerous journey to change her life for the better. Voices: Diver's Daughter - A Tudor Story brings Eve and her mother, who was stolen from her family in Mozambique as a child, from the Southwark slums of Elizabethan London to England's southern coast.

When they hear from a Mary Rose survivor that one of the African free-divers who was sent to salvage its treasures is alive and well and living in Southampton, mother and daughter agree to try to find him and attempt to dive the wreck of another ship, rumoured to be rich with treasures.

But will the pair survive when the man arrives to claim his 'share'?

Will Eve overcome her fear of the water to help rescue her mother?

Home Learning Tasks (Homework) - weekly spellings, Purple Mash task assigned online and reading (10-15 minutes a night if possible). Also, Timetables Rock Stars should be accessed at least once a week.  Your child's login details can be found in their Home Learning Journal. 

Reading books can be changed each week once children have completed at least 3 Oxford Reading Buddy questionnaires and achieving 80% correct. Please see ORB links & support below.

PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays with Mr Williams, PE kit required. Falcons are swimming the rest of this term, excluding the 26th June, due to sports day.

Jigsaw (PHCE) Puzzle Outcome Help me fit together the six pieces of learning about Relationships to create ‘Our Relationships Fiesta'. 

Healthy Me

The Puzzle begins with an exploration about babies and what they need to grow and develop including parenting. Children learn that it is the female that carries the baby in nature. This leads onto lessons where puberty is introduced. Children first look at the outside body changes in males and females. They learn that puberty is a natural part of growing up and that it is a process for getting their bodies ready to make a baby when grown?up. Inside body changes are also taught. Children learn that females have eggs (ova) in their ovaries and these are released monthly. If unfertilised, it passes out of the body as a period. Please note, sexual intercourse and the birth of the baby is not taught in this year group. Children discuss how they feel about puberty and growing up and there are opportunities for them to seek reassurance if anything is worrying them.

Key Vocabulary Changes, Birth, Animals, Babies, Mother, Growing up, Baby, Grow, Uterus, Womb, Nutrients, Survive, Love, Affection, Care, Puberty, Control, Male, Female, Testicles, Sperm, Penis, Ovaries, Egg, Ovum / ova, Womb / uterus, Vagina, Stereotypes, Task, Roles, Challenge, Looking forward, Excited, Nervous, Anxious, Happy. 

Year 3 Timetable Summary 2024/25 (areas are subject to change)

Page last updated 2nd June 2025