Welcome to Class 3

Mrs Hickey - Teacher

Mrs Waterhouse - Teaching Assistant

Miss Crawford - PPA cover (Thursday afternoon) 

Our Class saint is Kateri Tekakwitha. Her feast day is on the 14th July.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha is known as the "Lily of the Mohawks" because she lived her life with kindness and faith, like a beautiful flower blooming in the forest. Even though life was hard for her, Kateri found great joy and love in Jesus. She was baptized a Catholic when she was 20 years old. Many people admired her because she was gentle, humble, and spent her time praying and helping others. She loved being close to nature and saw God's beauty in the trees, animals, and rivers. Kateri died young, at the age of 24, but her faith and love for God inspired so many people. She became the first Native American saint in 2012! 

• PE day is on a Tuesday. Pupils will need to wear black or navy joggers, leggings or shorts, a white t-shirt and trainers.
• Recorder lessons will take place every Thursday morning. 
• Reading books - Please read with your child as often as possible, as this will improve confidence and fluency. Reading books should be changed at least once a week. 
• We aim to take the children to the library every week, so please ensure these books are brought back so they can be changed.

Summer Term 2025 

Regular times tables practice will help children within their Maths lessons. These can be practiced on Times Table Rock stars, which all children have to access to through their own personal log in. 

In Class 3, children should know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables confidently. By the end of the year, they should also be confident with 3, 4, and 8 times tables. Once these are secure, please support your child in learning the rest of the times tables, as this will help them when it comes to the statutory times tables test at the end of Year 4. 

Our topics this term are fractions, money, time, shape and statistics. We will also be continuing to revise our arithmetic skills.

This term we will be linking our English work to our Geography topic of Earthquakes and Volcanoes. We will use the text 'Escape from Pompeii' by Christina Balit to write a persuasive letter. We will then be writing a set of instructions about what to do in an earthquake.  We will also be writing a setting description to describe an earthquake aftermath.

Our topic this term is Animals including Humans. We will be finding out the answers to the question 'Why do humans have skeletons and muscles?' As part of this topic we will be looking at our bones, muscles and nutrition. Our focus person this term is Joe Wicks.

This term we will be looking at 'Celebrating Easter and Pentecost'. 

In this unit we will develop our knowledge and understanding of Easter and Pentecost through the stories of Emmaus and Pentecost. We will reflect on the celebration of new life and on the signs and symbols of the Easter season. We will reflect on the importance of belief through the story of ‘Doubting Thomas’. We will learn about the symbols and fruits of the Holy Spirit and reflect on how the Holy Spirit helps us to live our lives.

We will then complete the topic 'Called to Change'. 

In this unit we will develop our knowledge and understanding of living as a Christian. We will learn about how St. Peter became a follower of Jesus and how Saul (Paul) became a Christian. We will reflect on how we can use our gifts to live as a Christian.

At the end of the first half term we will be learning about Hinduism during our Other Faith week.

At the end of the second half term we will be learning about Sikhism during our Other Faith week.

During this term we will be answering the questions 'What did the Anglo-Saxons bring to England?' and 'Who were the Vikings?'

During this term we will be learning about Earthquakes and Volcanoes and answering the question 'What is happening beneath our feet?'

Our topics this term are Being my Best and Growing and Changing.

Our topics this term are Frame structures and Sculpture.

Our first topic this term is Creating Media - Desktop Publishing. The children will become familiar with the terms ‘text’ and ‘images’ and understand that they can be used to communicate messages. They will use desktop publishing software and consider careful choices of font size, colour and type to edit and improve premade documents. The children will be introduced to the terms ‘templates’, ‘orientation’, and ‘placeholders’ and begin to understand how these can support them in making their own template for a magazine front cover. They will start to add text and images to create their own pieces of work using desktop publishing software. Children will look at a range of page layouts thinking carefully about the purpose of these and evaluate how and why desktop publishing is used in the real world.

We will then look at the topic Programming -  Events and Actions in Programs. This unit explores the links between events and actions. Children will begin by moving a sprite in four directions (up, down, left and right). They will then explore movement within the context of a maze, using design to choose an appropriately sized sprite. This unit also introduces programming extensions, through the use of pen blocks. Children are given the opportunity to draw lines with sprites and change the size and colour of lines. The unit concludes with children designing and coding their own maze tracing program.

Our topics this term are rounders and athletics.