Opal Class
Welcome to Opal Class
We are a class of Year 3 children.
Our teacher is Miss Carter-Lewis
and Mrs Warren is our teaching assistant.
Autumn Term 2023
We would like to welcome the children back after the summer break!
We are looking forward to working with our new classes. As always we have a busy term ahead of us with lots going on.
This term we will be learning about Whitby in Geography, the Stone Age in History and
rocks, soils and fossils along with light in Science amongst many other things.
Our classes will also be visiting Hazard Alley Safety Centre on Wednesday 29th November.
Year 3 have PE on Thursday and Friday.
We will be outside as much as possible so please ensure your child comes into school wearing suitable PE clothing for the weather.
Homework will be handed out on Tuesday and will need to be completed and handed in by the following Tuesday.
Spellings will be tested every week on a Tuesday.
Times Tables will be tested every week on a Monday.
Both classes will have their own class assemblies this term alongside the harvest festival celebrations.
Finally, our term will finish, as always, with the many delights that come with Christmas.
Summer Term 2023
It’s going to be another busy term ahead of us in Year 3!
As well as our usual focus on English, Spellings and Maths, we will be continuing our History topic on Romans and learning about life in Britain during the Roman occupation. We will also be starting our Geography topic about Rivers, where they start and end and their uses, focusing specifically on the River Nile in Egypt.
In Science, our main topic of learning will be plants and animals. We will be investigating the way in which water is transported within plants and understanding the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering parts. Our focus on animals will include the importance of nutrition for animals and humans and a closer look at skeletons and muscle groups.
We are also looking forward to our swimming lessons and African Drumming sessions this term! After half term we have our Year 3 trips to Hazard Alley and to Stanwick Lakes where we will be building our own dens, not to mention Sports Week and our traditional Fun Day to celebrate the end of the school year!
Spring Term 2023
Spring term is another busy term with plenty to do.
In Humanities, we will be finding out about Spain in geography lessons and then in the second half term we will be starting to discover what life was like in Roman times. We will be learning about Forces and Magnets in Science.
Our focus book for English in the first half term is The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. We will also learn all about poetry through the marvellous work of the poet Michael Rosen.
As part of our RE topic of ‘Places of Worship’, we will be visiting Queens Park in Bedford for a faith tour, this is always a lovely opportunity to see different places of worship.
In Art we will be studying British Artists and in French we will be starting to learn all about the seasons.
Homework will continue to be given out on a Wednesday; spelling tests are on Wednesday. Please don’t forget to keep practising on Times Table Rockstars, Mathletics and Spelling Shed.
Suggested Reading for Key Stage 2 - Years 3 and 4
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