Summer Term Year 3

Welcome back, I hope that you all had a great time over Easter. Can you believe that we are in the final term of the year already, where has the time gone?

This term certainly looks like being another busy period, with lots of fun and exciting events. Firstly we are changing PE days again, as we are lucky enough to have secured a course of six lessons from SAFC, this will take place on Friday afternoons and so our PE days will now be Fridays and alternating Mondays, [Monday PE lessons will take place when we do not swim on Thursday].

Science, this term, will be concentrating on Plants. I am slightly worried as I have a reputation from being able to kill off even plastic plants, let’s hope that some of the children prove to have green fingers!!!  We will be exploring the Ancient Civilisation of Sumer, a first for us all I am sure as this is one of the curriculums newer topics. This area of study provides us with a link to our English studies, as we will be using a book by Mal Peet called The Mysterious Traveller to develop a range of language skills and to provide a stimulus for different genres of writing both fiction and non-fiction.

Maths will provide many challenges throughout the term, we will be concentrating on understanding number and gaining confidence in using times tables and place value to solve problems and demonstrate mastery of the four rules of number. I will be sending more information about this very soon.

An exciting term is ahead of us, and as ever if you have any concerns or just want an update please feel free to contact me, or have a chat at the end of the day.

Thank you

A Lenney