Class News

History: In History this term, we are focussing on The Ancient Egyptians. We will first use our prior learning of countries and continents to discover where in the world Egypt is located. Then, we will explore archaeologists and how they have helped us to find out about the past, who Tutankhamun was, the process of mummification, how they worshipped their gods and how the Egyptians invented writing (hieroglyphics).

This topic will be taken across the curriculum and we will dive a little deeper into their ancient ways in our reading and writing topics!

Physical Education: Our PE focuses this term are gymnastics and tag rugby. In gymnastics we will develop our flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance through sequenced work and collaborating with others. In learning how to play tag rugby, we will further develop our understanding of the attacking and defending principles of invasion games, as well as the importance of fair play and honesty. Year 3CM PE is on a Wednesday and 3GD is on a Friday. Please send your child to school in an appropriate PE kit on this day. We do go outside in all weathers so please send them in prepared.

Mathematics: In maths, year three are now moving onto multiplication and division. We will look at practically making equal groups and sharing, then apply that knowledge to multiplying and dividing. We will reinforce the times tables learnt in year two (2, 5 and 10), and introduce working with the 3, 4 and 8-times tables.

You can help us with learning these at home, there are some really fun sing-along times table songs on YouTube that we have been using in our 15-minute Morning Maths slots (feel free to ask your teacher for the links).

English: In English, we will be reading Flat Stanley and the Great Egyptian Grave Robbery we are sure your child will enjoy. Through the colourful and vivid illustrations and adaptive texts we will bring the story to life through both talk and drama activities in order to inspire writing opportunities. Children will retell the story in their own words and make connections to the mummification process linked to our history unit. We will even be visiting the Liverpool museum to see real life mummies for ourselves!

 Science: Our next science topic is ‘Animals including Humans’. We will identify and name parts of the skeletal system, look at how much sugar is in our food and even create a moving model of an articulated hand. 

 In your child’s reading diary, you will find their login details for Times Tables Rock Stars and Google Classroom. We can’t wait to set the children times tables and homework challenges which they will be able to access from home!  We will have times table battles within our year group and across the school, so please encourage your child to access this app at home so they can become times table superstars! Remember the more you go on the site, the more coins you earn!

Please could we remind you that spellings are given out weekly, on a Tuesday. Children will be tested on the spelling patterns the following Monday.

There is an expectation to read at least 3 times a week, let’s be the year group with the highest word count this year! Remember the more times you read, the more points you will earn!

Finally, we cannot wait to celebrate the learning journey of the year 3 cohort as they continue to excel in their educational journey at AJS.