Welcome to Chestnut Class

Welcome to Chestnut Class and Year 3! Mrs Peel teaches us on a Monday, Tuesday morning, Thursday and Friday.   Mrs Salkeld teaches us on a Wednesday morning and Ms McPherson teaches us on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.  Mrs Nieuwenhuys works in our class all week.  

This is what we will be learning about in the Autumn

English –  We will reading a text called 'The Egyptian Cinderella' and comparing it with the traditional version.  We will be creating reports about our own fantasy animals.  We will also read 'Paddington' and make up our own short stories.  Towards the end of term we will be designing our own shape poems. 

Maths – We will be busy continuing our new maths scheme 'Red Rose maths' which will encourage the children to develop their problem solving skills.  Times tables are also really important in the lower juniors.  By the end of Year 3 we need to know our 2,3,4,5,8 and 10 times tables within 6 seconds and we will be working on this all year.   

Science – Our topic for this half term is teeth and digestion.

Geography and History  - Our History Topic this half term is The Ancient Egyptians. 

Music – We will be learning to play the glockenspeil.

PE – PE lessons are on Mondays and Tuesdays.

RE - In RE we will be finding out about inspirational Christians such as Dr Barnados and Rosa Parks.

Spanish - On Wednesdays, we enjoy learning Spanish with Mrs Culshaw.

 Homework /reading/spellings 

Reading regularly with your child is so important and links to all areas of learning. Please listen to your child 5 times a week and record in the reading record book. 

Times tables - Please practise on the Times Table Rockstars website at home.  The children will have a password for this in the front of their reading record which will come home after the Meet the Teacher event.   This will really help to improve their times tables knowledge.  

Spellings - Spellings will be set on Fridays for a test the following Friday. This will link to the spelling pattern taught in the spelling lessons in class.