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Spring Term – The Anglo Saxons

Dear Year 3 parents,

We hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and wishing you all a happy new year.

Topic

The great Roman empire has withdrawn from Britain leaving her shores open for invasion. Would this be a mere bump in the road for her people – or a disastrous descent into chaos? It is here that the children will start their journey through the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. Children will immerse themselves in what life was like in a British settlement, studying Anglo-Saxon art and culture and discover the great treasures of Sutton-Hoo.

Having learnt about the Anglo-Saxons the children will begin to find themselves in the age of the Vikings! Children will learn about the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor.

Let our journey through the age of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings begin!

English

We will continue to use The Write Stuff as the basis for our teaching of writing. This term, the children will write a traditional narrative based on ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ by Julia Donaldson and playscripts relating to the wonderful book, James and the Giant Peach. James and the Giant Peach will also be our class novel and used in Guided Reading lessons. Some children in the class will revisit previous phonics learning and all children will receive direct teaching of spelling and have the opportunity to practise their handwriting.

The children will continue to have the opportunity to take a book from the school library on a Thursday. They will take part in a variety of different lessons designed to teach specific comprehension skills, to promote a love of reading for pleasure and use reading as a key tool to support all their learning.

Maths/Times Tables

Please support your child with the rapid recall of times table facts, both multiplication and division. All the children have access to Times Tables Rockstars and their login details can be found in their Reading Record. Maths topics this term are Multiplication and Division, Length and Perimeter, Fractions and Mass and Capacity.

Spelling

There will be a weekly spelling homework on the Spelling Shed website set on a Friday and due to be completed by the following Friday. Again, the children have their log-in details in their Reading Record. Please encourage them to login and practise. There will be a half-termly test of twenty words taken at random from the previous six weeks’ lists. The children will be encouraged to revise the previous term’s spellings and to focus on high frequency words that are being misspelled.

Reading at Home

The children will continue to be able to change their reading book as necessary. We will check to ensure that the books they are choosing are sufficiently challenging and cover a variety of genres.  Please continue to read to your child and to listen to them read as often as possible and complete the Reading Record. Re-reading passages, discussing the text, highlighting interesting or unknown vocabulary, and talking around the subject are all very worthwhile activities.

If your child finds decoding tricky, then echo reading is a good strategy. This involves the adult reading a short piece of the text and the child repeating the same passage.

Homework

Homework will be weekly spellings, a Maths task and reading and at various points in the year, a specific one-off Learning Log homework linked to an annual or national event such as World Book Day. It is important that all children complete the homework. Please email us if your child is experiencing any particular difficulties with the completion of homework.

PE 

PE will be on a Monday and a Thursday, but is subject to change with weather etc. Please send the kit into school every Monday and it will come home on Friday. Please make sure they have the correct kit for each session including: a jumper, jogging bottoms, shorts, t’shirt, trainers and spare socks (It gets very wet in the winter!) We will be inside and outside for PE throughout the week.

Water Bottles

Please make sure your child brings in a named water bottle daily.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Brogan and Mrs Chialuofas

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