to the Badger's Class Page!
Hello and welcome to Year 3! We are Badgers, known for being hardworking and loyal!
Please take note of our school times. The school day begins at 08:45 (this is when the register will be completed) the gate will be open from 08:35 and will close at 08:40. The school day will finish at 15:15. Also with our daily assembly, on a Friday you may be invited in if your child has got special envelope or writer of the week so please look out for this on your emails but also please don't tell them as it is a lovely surprise.
We are all here to help you:
Meet the Staff
Miss J Whitehead - Year Three class teacher
Mrs A Redzic - Teaching Assistant
Mr A Hutchinson - Teaching Assistant
Please click on the link below to access our class timetable for Spring 2 so that you can see what is happening each day:
Here is our topic overview for this half term:
P.E.
P.E. this half term is on a Monday afternoon (Karate) and on Tuesday afternoon we will have Forest Schools. Please ensure that your child comes to school in their PE kit on Mondays and appropriate clothing for Forest Schools on Tuesdays and that earrings have been removed in advance.
Homework
Maths Homework:
It is ESSENTIAL that your child fluently knows their times tables both division facts and multiplication and have quick recall on these. Therefore, Maths homework will be sent home weekly on a Wednesday and will be due in for the Friday of the same week.
Reading: 
Reading as much as possible will really help your child’s progress at school. Please ensure that your child reads at home at least three times each week you need to record reads on the Boom Reader App.
Literacy
Please look at the literacy non-negotiables to see what is expected in Year 3.
This half term we are focussing on: Recount Diaries, Review Writing (recounting our school trip), Fact Files and Classic Poetry. We will be focussing on these texts:
Our SPAG sessions will focus on: punctuating direct speech, was and were, full stops and editing.
Our spelling focus, is the Year 3/4 statutory spellings. We will be doing an investigation on different spelling rules every two weeks and finding words with the same phoneme and graphemes as our spellings. We will also be having daily spelling tasks every two weeks, focussing on different skills.
Maths
Please look at the maths non-negotiables to see what is expected in Year 3.
This half term the children will be focussing on Fractions and Mass and Capacity.
We will be focussing on the following skills:
- Understand denominators of unit fractions
- Compare and order unit fractions
- Understand the whole
- Compare and order non-unit fractions
- Fractions and scales
- Fractions on a number line
- Count in fractions on a number line
- Equivalent fractions on a number line
- Use scales
- Measure mass in kilograms and grams
- Equivalent masses (kg and g)
- Compare mass
- Add and subtract mass
- Measure capacity and volume (ml and l)
- Equivalent capacity and volume
- Compare capacity and volume
Our topic for this term is Bronze Age and Iron Age
Our Topic work will, link closely to our Literacy work. We are focussing on the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Each week we will be exploring a key question which will develop our History and Geography skills:
Week 1: Trip to Conkers.
Week 2: When was the Bronze Age?
Week 3: What was the Bronze Age? What tools were used?
Week 4: What was made during the Iron Age?
Week 5: What was life like at an Iron Age hill fort?
Please see our knowledge organiser for key vocabulary and knowledge the children will be learning this half term.
We also have topic homework that should be completed in the purple homework books and we will have a show and tell on the last day of term to show what we have done.
Awards 2023-2024
We are very excited to be starting work on our new values system when we come back in school in January. Each week we have a new value – 12 in total. The children will have an assembly Monday morning about how to show our care values both in school and at home! We will be expecting this to be demonstrated to all members of our Coppice community, it is important that even when we move onto a new value, the old one isn’t lost.
Our new core values will now form the basis of our ambassador passports (these have now been renamed – core value passports and the children can achieve their bronze, silver and gold awards throughout the year for each core value. We will of course keep you informed about how your child is getting on with this throughout the year.
Each week Mrs Seaton will send out a Newsletter that will reflect the value we are working on so that it can also be supported at home. We look forward to seeing our children bright and early ready to embrace the new weekly challenges
Monday23rd February- Back to School!
Thursday 26th February- Y3 Road Safety
Friday 27th February- Conkers Trip
Tuesday 3rd March- Author Visit
Wednesday 4th March- Heanor Library Visit
Wednesday 4th March- Parents Evening
Thursday 5th March- World Book Day
Tuesday 10th March- Parents Evening
Friday 27th March- Last Day of Term