Welcome to Blackfriars Bridge Class

Happy New Year! The first week has flown past and we have lots of exciting learning to get through this half term!

 

Here’s what we will be learning next week:

English- We are focusing on the use of adverbs this week and beginning to use commas after adverbial phrases. Our new text is Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf by David Almond. and we will be reading the first part and recording our initial responses to the text.

Our class read is Varjak Paw by SF Said.

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 are continuing to work on multiplication this week. We will be consolidating counting in multiples of 8, using 8 times table number facts to solve multiplication and division problems, and considering the relationship between the 4 and 8 times tables, understanding that 8 is double 4 and 4 is half of 8.

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 beginning to work on gymnastic and static balance and also incorporating some dance lessons over the course of this half term.

Geography- We are beginning to consider volcanoes, how they are formed, where they are found and what happens when they erupt.

Science- We will be continuing our topic of light, using torches to investigate how we can alter the size of shadows.

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.

RHE- We are recapping the NSPCC Pants project, considering that there are parts of our bodies which are private. More information can be found here

Talk PANTS & Join Pantosaurus – The Underwear Rule | NSPCC

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.

Wow, it is nearly Christmas already and we have had an amazing time with our learning so far! We still have plenty of fun things to do as well, beginning with a trip to the library on Wednesday to watch a Christmas play performed by students from the Brits School. We can’t wait!

 

Here’s what we will be learning next week:

English- We will be continuing to build vocabulary and reading skills in our grammar lessons on Monday and Friday. The focus for grammar this weekthe suffix -dis; in our reading skills, we are looking at meanings of words and synonyms. Our class text is Into the Forest by Anthony Browne and we are working on descriptive writing, we will be beginning to write our own versions of the story with our own innovations added.

Our class read is The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler.

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 investigating and drawing polygons which contain right angles, counting in 4s and investigating how we can use this to solve problems.

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 skipping and basketball skills this week.

RE- We are continuing our Hinduism topic, thinking about what Hindus believe and then looking at symbols and rituals.

Science- We will be continuing our topic of light, using torches to investigate how light is reflected from some surfaces and how shadows can be created.

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 Tuesday for Blackfriars class and Tuesday and Thursday for Waterloo class. Children should come to school in their school PE kits on those days.

RHE- We are thinking about the impact of bullying and what we can do to prevent it.

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.