Author: Mr Wain

Hello to all of you times tables rock stars out there!

Starting soon, we will be hosting our weekly TTRS competitions across all four classes in KS2.

The winning class each week will receive the coveted guitar and the three players with the top average score in each competition will get a certificate in assembly to celebrate their achievements and effort!

What you need to do:

Make sure your child has plenty of opportunities to practise their times tables at home. A rapid recall of times tables supports children understanding other mathematical concepts and can also help their understanding of new learning, too!

Practising regularly in short, sharp bursts is most effective!

Good luck!

 

Hi everyone,

On Friday 10th September, your child was sent home with a brand new reading record. Now you might be thinking, ‘Hang on! My child came home with their reading record earlier this week!’. Although this is the case, we’d like you to use the new reading records that were sent home on Friday.

The new reading records offer the following benefits:

• it is a place for children to record the books/texts they’ve read and rate them out of five stars
• there are a range of activities your child will accomplish throughout the year based on what they’ve read (each week, details of this task will be posted on class news)
• it gives children a chance to enhance their love of reading during our weekly book club sessions in school
• it gives children ownership and responsibility of their reading
• it allows children to practise their oracy skills during book club sessions when they share what they’ve been reading
• it can be a place for parents to share with teachers the wonderful reading their child has been doing at home

This week, the activity your child should complete based on their reading is…

Vocabulary Ninja

You can find more details about this in the activities section of the reading record.

Any questions, please ask!

Happy reading!

In our first week back of Year Three, we have been settling in, getting into routines and doing lots of different learning!

In writing…

We’ve been leanring all about Must Dos. These are the things we absolutely must remember to do in our writing. This includes: capital letters at the start of a sentence and for proper nouns (like Moortown), full stops/punctuation at the end of sentences and making sure that our writing makes sense! Next week, we will be looking at squashed sentences! This is when two sentences that make sense on their own are squashed together without either a full stop or a conjunction.

For example:

I went to the park it was fun.

This is a squashed sentence.

It should read…

I went to the park. It was fun. 

or 

I went to the park and it was fun.

Ask your child if they can remember our learning from this week!

In geography…

We’ve been learning about ‘Where in the world am I?’

This is our new geography topic where we’re finding out about where Moortown is in relation to the city, county, country and continent!

We recapped all seven continents at the start of the week. See if your child can remember!

In maths…

We’ve been recapping our number facts within and across ten. We’ve also been practising our 10x tables as well!

We’ve done lots of learning in other areas, too. We’ve been practising our ‘ai’ sound in spelling, doing daily reading fluency and much more.

Finally…

We’ve been reminding ourselves of what we need to do on 3, 2, 1 STOP. This is empty hands, silent voices and eyes on the speaker. It’s really important that we are all ready by STOP so that we are ready to learn as much as possible! See if your child can tell you what to do on 3,2,1 STOP.

Here’s to another great week next week, Y3!

Hi everybody!

Hope you’ve all had a great first day back.

Swimming this year will be every Wednesday other than the first and last Wednesday of each term.

So, this term…

The first swimming session this term will take place on Wednesday 15th September and will run to the final session which is on Wednesday 8th December. Your child should come to school in their P.E. kit on this day with their swimming kit in their bag.

Your child should also come to school wearing their P.E. kit every Thursday, too. This is our P.E. day.

On Wednesday 8th September, your child should come to school in their school uniform.

If you’ve any questions, please ask your class teacher.

Thanks!

 

Hi everyone!

I hope you’ve all had a lovely summer and are all as excited as I am for the start of the new school year! I’m really looking forward to getting to know you all and becoming a great team. Life in Year Three will be based upon being kind, trying our best and having fun.

A few things to note:

• Mrs Charlesworth and Mrs Potter will be working with us this year.
• School times are back to normal. The school day will start at 8:50 and end at 3:15.
• We will be going swimming on a Wednesday afternoon so please make sure your child has their swimming stuff on this day.
• PE is on a  Thursday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on this day.
• The school uniform policy is on our website. Please check if you are unsure about any items of clothing or footwear.
• If you have come across any reading books or library books please bring them into school.
• Our library slot is on a Monday. We will be going tomorrow!

Please do ask if you have any questions or concerns.

See you tomorrow!

Mr Wain

In a recent science lesson in Y3, we set up a comparative and fair test to answer the following question.

Which drinks have the worst effect on our teeth?

We used the following drinks in our experiment.

Coke, Diet Coke, orange juice and water

We conducted an observation over time to see the effects of these drinks on our teeth.

Don’t worry… we didn’t hold orange juice in our mouths for a week!

We used eggs instead! An egg shell contains calcium – the same mineral that is found in our enamel (the protective layer on our teeth).

We placed the eggs (which were the same type and size) into beakers and poured over 200ml of each liquid and placed them to one side.

We then made predictions about which drink we thought would have the worst effect.

“I think the drink that will have the worst effect will be the Coke because it contains lots of sugar!” said Tommy.

After leaving our eggs for 6 days, we removed them from their liquid and observed the changes.

See for yourself below:

orange juice

Coke

Diet Coke with toothpaste

Diet Coke

water

 

The effects of these drinks are clear to see!

Now, obviously, you wouldn’t keep a drink like orange juice in your mouth for a whole week.

What we can take away from this learning is that if you do decide to have a drink like Coke or orange juice every once in a while, then it seems like a good idea to wash it down with some water after!

We can also see that the toothpaste has protected the egg shell from as much staining than without it!

See what your child can remember about our learning!

 

Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,

Well done for all the engagement with TTRS you’re doing so far – keep it up!

BREAKING NEWS:

The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.

With an outstanding 987 points, this week’s winners are Y3!

Y3 have been able to retain the top spot in TTRS in our final tournament!

The TTRS tournaments are having a little break so for now, keep up the good work and don’t forget to challenge your friends and teachers!

Remember to give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play on TTRS. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.

All the best TTRS!

As our last half term in Year Three is underway, here is what we are learning about this half term in topic.

Design and Technology!

We will be learning about the design process to make our own Go-Kart prototypes.

So far, we have learnt what a typical design process looks like and what a design criteria is. Another piece of vocabulary we have learnt about is product.

Below are our pieces of vocabulary for this half term. See if your child can remember any of our learning so far!