Year 3
Amethyst and Diamond class
Woolenwick Junior School
Highlights of the Year
• Our trips and visits.
• Grandparents’ Assembly.
• Christmas performance – Year 3
supporting year 4.
• Drumming in the summer term.
• Swimming in the spring and autumn term
Topics & New Learning
* Revolting Recipes (healthy eating)
and Funny Bones (skeleton)
* Rock It (rocks and fossilisation)
* Egyptians (ancient civilisation)
* Magnets and Springs (forces
and magnetism)
* Woolenwick Wilderness (plant, life and light)
* London (location)
Topics & New Learning
• P.E. – football, gymnastics, dance, badminton,
athletics, rounders and swimming
• P.S.H.E. – Keeping Safe, E-Safety, Good to be me,
Feeling Good, The Right Choices and
Relationships.
• Music – singing, recorders and drumming
• Art – sculpture, painting and drawing linked to
overall topics
• D.T. – making pencil cases, magnetic games and
moving monsters
• The children will also learn German, R.E. and I.C.T.
Key learning this year
English
• Developing writing
stamina.
• Improving the quality of
what they write e.g.
through editing.
• Greater emphasis on
spelling, grammar and
use of powerful
vocabulary.
• Writing in different styles
and for different text
types.
• Handwriting – ‘joined
handwriting should be the
norm’.
Maths
• Place value.
• Developing mental and
written methods for the 4
operations.
• Securing times tables up
to 12x12.
• More independent
problem solving.
• Developing
understanding of shape
and measures.
Key learning this year
BIG Maths!
• Three times a week.
• Short, sharp, fun,
active activities.
• In small groups.
Spellings & Guided
reading
• Spellings happen
twice a week.
• Guided reading is
three times a week in
small groups across
Year 3.
Trips & Concerts
• Celtic Harmony visiting us (need more
contributions)
• Grandparents’ Assembly 22.10.14
• Pantomime 9.12.14
• Year 3 and 4 Christmas Concert 16.12.14
Watch this space for further visits…
Home Learning
• Learning log on Friday (due Wednesday)
• Maths Games on Friday (due back
Wednesday)
• Spelling sheet on Tuesday (Due in the
following Monday)
• Spelling test Mondays
• Reading (every night – at least 3 times a
week). Children do not have to change
their book every day.
• Times tables (several times a week)
Special Events
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Decs. Day
Children in Need
Book Day
MAD Day
Easter Extravaganza
Sports Day
School Summer Fete
Moving On Fun Day
Got a question?
• Information on the school website
www.woolenwickjm.herts.sch.uk
Quick query – pop into the school office
Make an appointment…
• with the class teacher as the 1st port of call
(before 8.30am or after 3.20pm)
• with Mrs Birch or Mrs Calvert
Evaluation form
• If you haven’t already done so, please
complete an evaluation form and place in
the box at reception.
THANK YOU FOR COMING
Please take a letter from
* Mrs Batten (Diamond) or
* Miss Kingston (Amethyst)
which explains home learning in a little bit
more detail.