This week has been very exciting. We had the lovely, and surprisingly calm, troll come into Class Three. The children came up with questions to ask the troll to help get the true story out about the Three Billy Goats Gruff. After interviewing the troll, Class Three found out the troll was called Miss Isy … Read more
This week four children in Year 3 wrote the class blog. I have attached a little message at the botto of the page. Enjoy! In Maths this week we have been… Using a cross between partitioning and column addition to help us add 2 and 3 digit numbers. Mr Cosford has taught us how to … Read more
We had an exciting start to the week with our play on Monday. The children all thoroughly enjoyed seeing the Dick Whittington performance. Class 3 continued looking at recounts in English. This week we have been using the traditional tale ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ as a stimulus for the recount. We have been acting … Read more
Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday. Our first week back has been in full swing. We have a new teacher working with us in Class 3 until February who will be delivering some of the lessons. His name is Mr Cosford. He has been in Crowmarsh Primary school since September … Read more
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope you all get a lovely rest and enjoy your holiday. Christmas homework – There is an optional writing homework based on the poem ‘The Sound Collector’ that we have been using in school. – Read as often as you can – Remember to … Read more
Firstly, thank you to all the parents for their support during and leading up to the Christmas play. The children all did brilliantly at remembering their words and actions. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. English: This week we have… Continued looking at performance poetry. We did a performance in front … Read more
English: This week we have been … Focusing on a poem called the Sound Collector by Roger Mc Gough . We have been getting into groups of four or less and acting out the poem and showing it to other groups in the class. One group performed while the others had a sheet of paper … Read more
I hope you all managed to enjoy your week off. It has been a jam-packed first week back. On Monday we had our KS2 (Yr 3/4/5) auditions for the Christmas play this year. Lots of the children auditioned and they all did a fantastic job standing up in front of the other children. The parts … Read more
This week in Class Three we have continued to focus on our letter writing skills. The class have been mastering the key features of a letter. We also discovered that just because a letter has all of the key features (address/date/introduction etc.) doesn’t mean it is a good letter. We looked at an example written … Read more
This week in Maths we have been finding strategies for halving and doubling 2, 3 and even 4 digit numbers. We started by mentally breaking down the numbers (partitioning) into tens and units. This made the number easier to manage. The tens and units were doubled or halved separately before putting the answers back together. … Read more
