3 Aspen
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 Mrs Welsh (Monday and Tuesday), Miss Minghella (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday), Mrs Farooq and Mrs Bartholomew.
Important Information
Here is our class timetable.
We have two P.E. lessons a week. These will be on Thursdays and Fridays. 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
03.09.24 - School reopens after Summer.
09.09.24 - First library slot and then bi-weekly from this date.
26.9.24 International Day of Languages and Respect Unity Afternoon
09.10.24 Phonics and Reading Stay and Learn (9am - 10am).
This half term we will be learning ...
English
As part of English, we will be accessing Guided Reading lessons. In our Class Novel Guided Reading, we will be reading The Secret Explorers and the Ice Age Adventure. We will be using this book to help us develop our Reading skills such as inference, retrieval and vocabulary understanding.
In Writing, we will be beginning this half-term by using the book 'The First Drawing' to help us write a retell of a story in second person.
Later on this half-term, we will be using Stone Age Boy to help us write from a different point of view and a letter.
Maths
In Maths this half-term, we will be starting by learning about place value up to 1,000. We will be representing and ordering numbers up to 1,000 as well as showing understanding of each digit in 3-digit numbers. We will end the half-term by starting to look at addition and subtraction of numbers up to 1,000.
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.
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 'We Will Rock You!'. 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 within 'We Will Rock You!' is Rocks. We will be learning different types of rocks, where they can be found and how rocks were used in the Stone Age for things such as hunting and fishing. We will also be learning to categorize rocks. We will also be learning about the skeletons and muscles of humans and how they have changed over time from the Stone Age to now.
History
Our History topic within 'We Will Rock You!' is Stone Age to Iron Age. We will be learning about the lives of the earliest human settlers in Britain and the changes humans went through between the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Geography
Our Geography topic within 'We Will Rock You!' is Earthquakes and Volcanoes. We will be learning about what they are and how they are formed/happen.
DT
We will be continuing our earthquakes and volcanoes theme in DT and we will be making erupting volcanoes as part of our design and technology lessons. We will learning about the science of eruptions and replicating this with our very own volcanoes that we have built.
Art
We will be recreating some prehistoric paintings for our art work this half-term. We will be using some spices and other natural materials to replicate some cave paintings.
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 Musica 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 ballads this half-term.
PE
Our units this half term in PE are football and cross country.
Author Focus
Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and held the office until his death.
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