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Dear Parent(s)/Carer(s),

We would like to welcome you back to school for the Summer Term and hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable 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.

We have class email addresses so please feel free to use these to contact your child’s class teacher.

Thanks,

Year 3 team

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Pentatonic scale composition
Explore how music is created using pitch and texture. Improvise and compose music- experimenting with pitches of pentatonic scale and maintaining a pitched part  as part of a performance, improvising a melody based on the pentatonic scale .

Explore playing legato and staccato.
Read and recognise staff notation for pitch and dot notation for different patterns of pitches in the pentatonic scale.

Composing music to describe animals using recorders

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Events and actions in programs
Writing algorithms and programs that use a range of events to trigger sequences of actions.

Desktop publishing
Creating documents by modifying text, images, and page layouts for a specified purpose. Using: Adobe Express.

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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 wishing tales, explanation texts, texts about defeating the monster and poetry.

We will be focusing on how to explain a scenario or method to someone in a text.

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: Fractions, time, measurement (mass & capacity), money and shapes (right angles).

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. Read receipts, menus and scales to become familiar with money and measurements.  Take a visit to the local supermarket to find out more about different volumes of liquid. Estimate measurements in milliliters and litres., for example, how many ml's does can this cup hold? Practise telling the time. Go on a 2D and 3D shape hunt at home or in your local area and recognise shapes. Count and recognise different amounts of coins in your purse.

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Weather and the water cycle
The children will explore different weather patterns as well as the different stages within a water cycle.

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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 'The pea and the princess' and ' Why water works'. These stories tie into our English and Science topics!

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Forces & Magnets
The children will learn about contact and non - contact forces such as gravity and magnetism.

Rocks
The children will learn the names of the different rocks as well as rock formations.

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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. There will be a spelling test every Friday.

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Windsor Castle
The children will explore the history of Windsor Castle and learn more about Queen Elizabeth II and her reign as a monarch.

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The children will be learning about managing feelings and emotions in different scenarios, the working world, a world without judgement and growing and changing.

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The children will be learning how to say the days of the weeks, describing different varieties of food and be able to say when their birthday is in French.

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Sikhi - What is the best way for a Sikh to lead a good life?

Hinduism - What is the best way for a Hindu to lead a good life?