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 Spring Term.

English –  We will reading a text called 'The Lancashire Giant' and making up our own versions of the story.  We will also be looking at the Wallace and Gromit film 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' to consider dilemmas in stories.  Towards the end of this term we will be reading The Iron Man and producing our own writing based on this story.

Maths – We will be busy continuing our 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 term is Forces and Magnets.

Geography and History  - Our History Topic this half term is The Romans with a particular focus on Boudicca.

Music – We will using our glockenspeil skills to compose, improvise and perform a number of songs.

PE – PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Fridays.

RE - In RE we will be finding out about  Jesus' disciples.

Spanish - On Fridays, 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 Thursdays for a test the following Thursday. This will link to the spelling pattern taught in the spelling lessons in class.