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Welcome to the Year 3 Owls Class WebPage which was last updated on Friday 4th May 2012.
Summer Topics 2012
Instead of sending home the usual class curriculum letters this term, this topic information was published in our weekly newsletter on Thursday 26th April 2012. All classes will be studying The Diamond Jubilee this half term and The Olympic Games after half term. It is fairly safe to say that most people will only see one royal diamond jubilee in their lifetime and it will be many years before the Olympic Games are held in the United Kingdom again. So, we have decided to focus on these two special events during the summer term. Each class teacher has planned a special range of activities, events and celebrations during the next few weeks – and much more information (including photographs) will be given in our newsletters on a weekly basis. We are placing an even greater emphasis on ensuring that, in addition to our daily English and Maths lessons, essential English and Maths skills, understanding and knowledge are also covered through an even wider range of topic and additional curriculum work. Every opportunity for the children to make use of and develop their ICT skills is being provided – with an exciting range of activities planned through our special summer topics. English & Maths Curriculum Information for Year 3 ENGLISH To read examples of letters written for a range of purposes, e.g. to recount, explain, enquire, complain, congratulate, comment; understand form and layout including use of paragraphs, ways of starting, ending, etc. To organise letters into simple paragraphs. To write letters, notes and messages linked to work in other subjects, to communicate within school. letters to authors about books, selecting style and vocabulary appropriate to the intended reader. T o write poetry that uses sound to create effects,e.g. onomatopoeia, alliteration, distinctive rhymes. To compare forms or types of humour, e.g. by exploring, collecting and categorising form or type of humour, e.g. word play, joke poems, word games, absurdities, cautionary tales, nonsense verse, calligrams. To select, prepare, read aloud and recite by heart poetry that plays with language or entertains; to recognise rhyme, alliteration and other patterns of sound that create effects. To write a first person account, e.g. write a character’s own account of incident in story read; To distinguish between 1st and 3rd person accounts. To experiment with recounting the same event in a variety of ways, e.g. in the form of a story, a letter, a news report. MATHS Practice and develop oral and mental skills. Place value, ordering, estimating, rounding. Measures, and time, including problems. Understanding addition and subtraction Mental calculations strategies (+ and -). Money and ‘real life’ problems Making decisions and checking results. Understanding addition and subtraction Mental calculations strategies (+ and -). Money and ‘real life’ problems. Making decisions and checking results. Mental calculations strategies (+ and -). Money and ‘real life’ problems Measures, and time, including problems Making decisions and checking results.