Welcome to Chestnut Class

Welcome to Chestnut Class and Year 3! Mrs Peel teaches us on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.  Mrs Salkeld and Mrs Dykes teach us on a Wednesday.  On a Tuesday afternoon we are taught by Mr Huxley and a coach from the school sports partnership.  Mrs Olverston and Mrs Niewenheis both work in our class all week.  

This is what we will be learning about in the Autumn term.

English –  We will reading the Mousehole Cat and working towards writing our own stories.  We will also be reading The Pied Piper and trying to find out whether the Loch Ness Monster really exists.

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 and rocks and soils and we will be doing lots of practical work investigating their properties.  

Geography and History  - Our History Topic this half term is The Lancashire Cotton Mills. 

Music – We will be learning to play the glockenspeil.

PE – PE lessons are on Mondays and Tuesdays.  

RE - Mr Huxley will be teaching us RE on a Tuesday afternoon.  This half term we will be learning about why Muslims fast during Ramadan. 

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.  They will be able to practise using the Spelling Shed website.