Hello and thank you for a fabulous Science Week! Well done to Blackfriars for winning the prize for the daily questions competition as well!

Here’s what we will be learning this week:

English- This week we will be continuing our text, The Bluest of Blues by Fiona Robinson. We will be beginning to write a non-chronological report about beetles. We have already looked at god examples and planned our writing, now we will take a section at a time to write briiliant pieces of non-fiction writing. We will also be looking ahead to the next illustrations and discussing what we learn about our characters from them and beginning to look at playscripts ready for our next piece of writing.

We will be beginning to send home reading books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for those children who have not already chosen them. Reading diaries should be brought to school each day.

Maths- We will be continuing with our work about fractions, recognising that non-unit fractions have a numerator greater than 1, recognising that when the numerator and denominator are the same the number is a whole, investigating fractions on a number line and beginning to use repeated addition of fractions.

If your child would like to practise their learning at home, there are lots of free games which they can use, including Daily 10 from Topmarks or Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

PE- We will be continuing to work on ball skills  and also learning some of the rules and skills of netball.

History- We will be continuing to compare four Ancient Civilisations, the Egyptians, the Shang Dynasty, Sumar and Indus Valley, before beginning an in depth look at Ancient Egypt, beginning with daily life in Ancient Egypt and the importance of farming.

Science- We will be beginning a new topic about rocks and soils, beginning with a vocabulary lesson and exploring what we already know and would like to find out.

RHE- We are continuing a new topic about why it is important to keep your body fit and healthy.

Homework- We will post homework on Google Classroom each week. We have added tasks to Mathletics. Additionally, the children will have access to Language Angels to practise their new vocabulary in Spanish. We hope to give your child access to TTRockstars also this week, a fun way to practise times tables.

PE will take place on Monday and Friday for Blackfriars class and Tuesday and Friday for Waterloo class. Children should come to school in their school PE kits on those days.

Please ensure your child has a water bottle in school each day.

Lastly, if you have any questions or concerns, please speak to a member of staff or email us at the address below;

Year3@howard.croydon.sch.uk

Year 3 Team

We have now got access to Google Classroom again and are starting to upload homework tasks. Children’s logins have not changed but there is a new class code.

Waterloo: 2tu6ksx

Blackfriars: tdsv7fo

If you have any problems logging in, please let us know.