Welcome to

Peacock & Falcon Classes

2024/25

Welcome to the start of a new school year. 

Mrs Samways & Mr Gibbs would like to welcome parents to Year 3 and Key Stage 2.

We have already started off the new school, year with 2 whole days of science where your child has had the opportunity to explore light through this terms science unit.

We have linked reading and writing learning to light though our class book The Firework Makers Daughter by Philip Pullman. 

Maths has started off with recognising numbers to 100 and your child will continue to understand the value of digits up to 1000. The timetables focus this whole term is on 2x and relating number facts. Details of home support are shown below. 

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 Thursday and Friday (PE kit not needed for Friday) with Mr Gibbs

Communication, Language & Literacy studies will focus on the following book.

Lila doesn't just want to be a Firework-Maker's daughter, she wants to be a Firework Maker herself. But although she's learned a lot she still must get through the most difficult and dangerous part of her apprenticeship - and her father won't tell her what it is.

In search of this final Firework-Making secret, Lila heads off alone on a journey. It is a journey filled with dangers beyond anything she could have imagined, a journey on which she will learn so much more than the one secret she set out to find . . .

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

Being In My World

In this Puzzle (unit) the children learn to recognise their self-worth and identify positive things about themselves and their achievements. They talk about new challenges and how to face them with positivity. The children talk about the need for rules and how these relate to rights and responsibilities. They talk about choices and consequences, working collaboratively and seeing things from other people’s points of view. The children talk about different feelings and the ability to recognise these feelings in themselves and others.

Key Vocabulary Welcome, Valued, Achievements, Proud, Pleased, Personal Goal, Praise, Acknowledge, Affirm, Emotions, Feelings, Nightmare, Fears, Worries, Solutions, Support, Rights, Responsibilities, Learning Charter, Dream, Behaviour, Rewards, Consequences, Actions, Fairness, Choices, Co-Operate, Group Dynamics, Team Work, View Point, Ideal School, Belong.

Year 3 Timetable Summary 2023/24 (areas are subject to change)

Page last updated 9th September 2024