POWSA Meeting

The next POWSA meeting will be held at the Poet Laureate on Tuesday 28th January at 7.45pm. All welcome.

Homophones - Home Learning

For their "home learning" this week I have asked the children to collect pairs of homophones (eg pear, pair- shore, sure - sea, see - wear, where- etc).
There is an "activity sheet" explaining this.
Thank you,
Duncan MacBean

Happy New Year

Dear Parents,

Happy New Year from the Year 3DM Team (Mr. MacBean, Mrs. Bernard, Mrs. Long, Miss Kensington, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Thorne, Mrs. Dukes and Mrs. Mewett)

We all hope that you all had an enjoyable Christmas holiday! (In spite of the rain!)

I will be holding a Parents’ Mathematics Workshop Session on Wednesday 15^th January at 9.00 am.

This will be an opportunity to hear about our approach to teaching and learning within the Mathematics curriculum.

Just a bit of advanced notice-  Our Class Assembly is on Friday 31^st January at 9.20 am, in the school hall.

Our main topic for the first half-term term is “the Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece”.

I'm sorry about the lack of "Blogs" over the period before Christmas. This was due to technical difficulties. These have now hopefully been resolved.

Duncan MacBean

Class Teacher Year 3 

Home Learning- Planets in our Solar System

For "home learning" this week we have set the children the challenge of learning the names of the nine planets in our Solar System.
A helpful sentence to remind the children of the names of the planets , as well as their order from the Sun, is as follows:
"My very east method just speeds up naming planets!"
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

We have also suggested that the children "track the moon":
Early in the evening, sit by the window and look out at the Moon. Put a piece of Bluetack (or something sticky) on the window in line with the Moon.
Go back to the same place in front of the window later in the night and see how much the position of the Moon has changed.

Have a good weekend,
Duncan MacBean

Fractions

Maths this week:

This week we will explore division into fractions of -

• groups of objects
• divided shapes

Recognise the formal way of writing fractions with the denominator and the numerator.

Recognise equivalent fractions.

Recognise link between division and fractions.

Duncan MacBean

Home Learning

For their "home learning" this week, I have sent the children home with a couple of Maths Puzzles.

We are very pleased with the work that the children have been doing at home. The last couple of weeks have provided us with some brilliant "Wonderful World" poems and equally fantastic "Titanic Acrostics". Well done everyone!

Many thanks,
Duncan macBean

POWSA AGM

POWSA will be holding their AGM on Thursday 7th November at 19.45 in the school staff room.
Anyone is more than welcome to attend.