3 Aspen
Our seasonal project this half term is -
To get creative and make a ‘potato character’ to represent a character from your favourite book. You could add more by using an old box to create a scene around your character. We would like to display these in school for our World Book Day celebrations.
Some ideas are pictured below:
Please return your creations to school on Friday 28th February, so that we can display them for World Book Day on March 6th.
Welcome to Aspen Class!
Hi everyone! Welcome to the class page for 3 Aspen.
Here you will find all the information you may need and an insight into all the exciting things we will be learning about!
In 3 Aspen we are Ready, Respectful and Safe.
We always DREAM BIG and DARE TO FAIL.
Staff
In 3 Aspen we have Miss Cherryholme (Monday and Tuesday), Miss Minghella (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday), Miss Furze and Mrs Bartholomew.
Important Information
Here is our class timetable.
We have two P.E. lessons a week. These will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We will also complete an active break non-P.E. days.
On P.E. days we will need to come to school in our P.E. kits and we stay in them for the day.
P.E. kits are as follows:
- Plain black shorts or tracksuit pants and a plain white t-shirt with a black jacket or hoodie or;
- The official P.E. kit from Kitworld
- Black or white trainers
It is important to keep hydrated throughout the school day so we have a water bottle in the classroom with our names on. We have water fountains in school to refill these when needed.
In 3 Aspen, we LOVE to read! We will be able to take our library books home with us every night and we will change these during our library slot every other Monday starting from Monday 9th September. Children should aim to read at home at least 3 times a week.
Key Dates
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07.02.25 - NSPCC Number day
This half term we will be learning ...
Our bi-weekly library slot will be on a Monday morning. Children may swap their library books on this day.
This half term we will be learning ...
Guided Reading
As part of English, we will be accessing Guided Reading lessons. In our Class Novel Guided Reading, we will be reading 'A Gladiator Stole my Lunchbox' which is a thrilling illustrated tale complete with lions, gladiators, assassination plots and a dare-devil rescue. We will also be reading 'Queen of Darkness' which is a gripping story set during the life of Queen Boudica. We will be using these books to help us develop our comprehension skills.
English
In writing, we will be beginning this half-term by using the book 'Escape to Pompeii' to write write a setting description to describe Pompeii before the eruption and then focusing on Pompeii after the eruption.
Later on this half-term, we will be reading and sentence stacking based on the book Romulus and Remus and then we will write a continuation of the story.
Maths
In Maths this half-term, we will be continuing our work with multiplication and division and will be learning to times and divide by 2, 5 ,10, 3, 4 and 8. We will be practising lots of skills such as repeated addition, grouping and using bar models.
We will be continuing to learn and practise our Times Tables using a Rekenrek and Times Table Rockstars! In Year 3, we build on our Year 2 times tables knowledge of 2s, 5s and 10s by learning the 3s, 4s and 8s times tables.
Log on to TTRockstars here: Times Tables Rock Stars: Play
Topic
We have changed the way we teach our Foundation Curriculum and now we will teach lessons such as History, Geography, Art and DT through an umbrella topic. This term's topic in Year 3 is 'The Roman Empire'. See our road map of learning through our topic this term below. We will continue to teach History, Geography, Art and DT separately but they will follow a theme where possible.
Science
Our Science topic is Forces and Magnets. We will be learning different types of forces, what you need to create a force and a magnet and how to identify magnetic materials. We will also focus on magnets having 2 poles and what this means.
History
As part of our topic of 'The Roman Empire'. Year 3 will be learning all about the Romans. We will learn about all the changes people went through during these times. We will learn about their daily lives, the power of the Roman Army, Julius Caesar and Boudicca.
Geography
As part of our Geography topic within 'The Roman Empire', we will be learning to locate places in Europe on a map, looking at Pompeii, identifying major European cities, and looking at landmarks in different cities.
PSHE (My Happy Mind)
For PSHE we have moved away from Jigsaw and we will be using My Happy Mind to help us learn about our bodies and brains.
We will also be continuing to use Pol-Ed and Pants in our PSHE lessons as well as learning about online safety.
Music
Our music lessons are based on our recorder lessons with Music every week on a Wednesday.
This music presents an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked.
As well as recorder lessons on a Wednesday, we will be having extra music lessons in class on a Tuesday. We will be learning about Roman motifs this half-term.
PE
This half term we will be learning all about tag rugby and taking part in team building games.
Author Focus
Thiago de Moraes
Thiago spends most of his time in a tiny shed at the bottom of his garden, writing and illustrating books, comics and bits of old cardboard boxes.
He enjoys telling all sorts of stories, from non-fiction books like Myth Atlas and its sequels to picture books and fiction, including the A Mummy Ate My Homework series and Old Gods New Tricks. He also creates comics for The Phoenix magazine.
Thiago has won the Sheffield Children’s Book Award, was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize and twice nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. His books have been translated into 24 languages.
He is 90% beard, dangerously fond of bacon and lives in England with his wife, kids and a pet tortoise called Nibbles.
Tony Bradman
He was born and brought up in London and still lives there. He has written poetry and picture books, short and long fiction and educational books and plays. VIKING BOY was been very successful and ANGLO-SAXON BOY - the story of one boy's involvement in the Battle of Hastings. He won the Historical Association's Young Quills Award in 2018.
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