Year 3: Hawthorn, Aspen

Teacher’s email addresses:

Hawthorn Class: bethwilley@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Aspen Class: demelzasayers@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk & catloudwill@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Aspen and Hawthorn Weekly Update – 26^th April 2024

Dates for your diary:

Monday 6^th May: May Day Bank Holiday

Tuesday 21^st May: KS2 Sports Day

Friday 24^th May: School closed – Inset Day.

Our learning this week:

English: This week, the children have been using our text Cinderella of the Nile to develop the skills and collect the knowledge they needed to start planning their own versions of the story on Friday. They have identified themes within the story, compared our story to the original version of Cinderella, used figurative language to create their own ‘Cinderella’ character – male or female – and planned their own story.

Maths: Returning to our learning on fractions, this week the class have learned how to add and subtract fractions, have been identifying unit and non-unit fractions of a set of objects, as well as partitioning the whole.

Topic: Geography this week has focussed on the UK and in particular, identifying human and physical features of our country. Continuing our DT lesson on quiches, the children have been generating ideas in order to design the quiches they will be making later in the term with a focus on the ingredients they want to use and the the purpose of the product they are making. In science, the children have explored shadows.

Please remember to contribute to the cost of the ingredients for quiche making via the Gateway app.

Homework:

Reading: We expect children to read 5 times per week. Year 3 children can write their own home reading in their yellow logs.

Times Table Rock Stars: The children need to complete their TTRS homework each week. We expect children in Year 3 to spend at least 15 minutes on TTRS each week.

Spelling: The children have been set words ending in the suffix -ly for their homework this week.

Miss Willey, Mrs Loudwill and Mrs Sayers