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Dear Parent(s)/Carer(s),

We hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable winter break. In this letter we hope to provide you with useful information to support your child this term

If you have any concerns or worries during the school year, please arrange a time with the school office to meet with your child’s teacher or speak to them at the end of the school day.

Thanks,

Year 3 team

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The school day begins promptly at 8.50.  All children should be outside of their classes by 8:45, ready to be greeted by their class teacher.  It is essential for your child to attend school everyday and to be in class on time, as this will avoid your child missing those important few minutes at the start of the lesson. The school office should be notified of all absences.  The school day finishes at 3.20pm.

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The children will be working on writing instruction texts, a warning tale and a wishing tale.

We will be focusing on how to describe a character, how to tell the reader how to do something using instructions and how to create suspense.

We will also be developing the children’s ability to describe, through imagery, similes, personification and much more!

You can help at home by:

Visiting the library and borrowing fiction and information books. Collect and ask your children to read leaflets, poetry books and stories.

Everyone is welcome to visit the school’s Active Learning Library, which offers a range of fiction and non-fiction books and spelling games.

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Topics:  Multiplication & Division, Measurement (length & perimeter, Fractions and Measurement (mass & capacity).

You can help at home by:

Practising mental adding and subtracting as well as multiplication tables in 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, 6X, 8X and 10X. Practise solving multiplication and division equations using column methods and identifying different measurements around the house e.g. g/kg in rice packets.

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Major continents of the world
The children will explore differences and similarities between the continents of the world. They will explore the physical geography as well as different climates, population and much more!

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Children should read every day, recording in their reading records how long they read for and which page they are up to. This can be completed in their reading record or their class Padlet. Children should be reading for 20 minutes a day. Please ensure that your child brings their reading book and reading diary into school every day.

This term we will be reading and studying 'Shang Dynasty China', 'The Willow Pattern Story', 'The Minpins', 'The Sound Collector', ' Amy Wu and the perfect Bao' and 'After Fall'. These stories tie into our RE and History topics!

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Plants
The children will identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem, leaves and flowers. They will explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from the soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant. They will also investigate the way in which water is transported within plants as well as explore the role of flowers in the life cycle of flowering plants (pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal).

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Homework is set every Friday and is expected to be completed by the following Friday. All homework is set on Google Classroom, Conquer Maths, Spelling Shed and Teams.

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The Shang Dynasty
The children will explore what life was like in Ancient China during the time of the Shang dynasty. They will learn about the rituals taken by ancient priests, the social groups the people of China were placed in and explore inventions such as the writing system and chariots.

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The children will be learning how to be responsible in different scenarios as well as managing feelings and emotions in different scenarios.

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Children will be introduced to French and the French speaking world. They will learn basic greetings: how to introduce themselves and say how they are feeling. They will learn numbers 1-12 and how to say how old they are. They will learn basic French phonics, starting with vowel sounds and progressing to learning the French alphabet.

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Christianity

Spring 1 - Could Jesus heal people? Did he perform miracles or was there some other explanation?

Spring 2 - What is 'good' about Good Friday?