Hello, and welcome to another weekly Year 3 update. The children have continued to settle into the new challenges of KS2, although we know this can be extremely difficult and tiring for some. We have noticed that many of your children are running on fumes come Friday morning! Please rest assured that this is completely natural, and their stamina will grow over the year. Please support them by making sure they have plenty of sleep and have a healthy snack to eat at breaktime.

This week, your children have been up to the following:

• In literacy, we have been studying another book by Michael Foreman, called Dinosaurs And All That Rubbish. We will continue with this next week, building up to an extended piece of writing (a setting description).
• In maths, we are all looking at place value, passing through number lines, partitioning and the hundreds digit.
• In geography, we learned about the rainforest climate and how it compares with our own. Next week, we’ll be learning about the layers of the rainforest.
• In outdoor PE, the children have been doing hockey with Coach Joe. Indoor PE is rainforest-themed dance.
• In computing, we have been storyboarding our animation ideas. Next week, we’ll start to make them using a program called Scratch.

PE and swimming

As well as PE for all on Monday, Mr. Burrows’s class will be swimming on Tuesday and Miss Lunnon’s class will be having indoor PE.

INSET day

This is a reminder that the school has an INSET day on Friday 27th September, and so it will be closed to children.

Forest Camp

The Year 3 team