Hello All,

Today, we were lucky enough to have Rock Steady deliver workshops for us all. It was great seeing all of the future drummers, singers, keyboard players and guitarists from Year 3 enjoying themselves!

Since the return, we have been very busy and making leaps of progress across the curriculum. In topic, we have been building on our geography skills whilst learning about Kenya which has enabled us to write tourist leaflets so be sure to ask your own personal tour guides at home all about Kenya! In theme with our topic, we have been reading Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters and Lila and the Secret of Rain in our reading lessons. In Maths, we have been focusing on place value and the children have been learning how to represent 3-digit numbers. In Science, we have been learning about the different food groups and what constitutes a traditionally balanced diet.

Going forwards, we will be preparing to write a piece of descriptive writing about the day in the life of a child in Kenya, developing the necessary skills needed for this task. In Maths, we will be learning to add and subtract with 3-digit numbers.

Just as a reminder, our PE day is Wednesday, so please try to come in to school in a PE kit on Wednesdays only. We also ask that you continue to practice spellings at home and listen to your child read daily, recording all responses in the reading record.

Have a lovely weekend and let’s keep the positive energy flowing for the coming weeks!

 

Mrs Campbell-Whitfield and Mr Ward

Hello all!

Well done for getting through a warm and wonderful first week back! It has been great to see everyone again along with some new additions to our classes. We hope everyone settled in well and feels pleased to be back.

This week, we have been using our time to get to know the children and begin to introduce the new topic (Kenya) for this half term, along with Destination Reader which is a new concept for children starting KS2.

It was a pleasure to meet so many of you at the Meet the Teacher talks on Friday – we hope you found this useful. To follow up from this, we have attached the presentation to this blog for you to read. We would appreciate if you can all connect with us on Class Dojo as this is a good way for us to communicate throughout the year. If yo have any more questions from the session, feel free to contact us this way.

Have a great weekend, get some rest and we will see you all Monday!

Mr Ward and Mrs Campbell-Whitfield

Meet the teacher presentation Year 3 2021

Hello All,

We are all excited to see you on Monday 6th September and hope you had a lovely summer.

This year, your teachers will be Mrs Campbell-Whitfield (Columbia) and Mr Ward (Orion), assisted by Mrs Baker and Ms Doswell.

Our topic to start this year is Kenya so if you have any interesting artefacts to bring and share, feel free to do so.

Mrs Campbell-Whitfield and Mr Ward

Have a go at completing some musical tasks for your homework, just click the link below.

Music HW Mancini

Click the link below and let the story unfold as you take a  walk with your family and friends. There are lots of activities to join in with and trails to follow this is a fun way to engage with stories while on the move.

https://www.bluebermondsey.co.uk/childrens-story-walks/ 

 

Click the link below and read the extract.

Can you predict what might happen next? Can you write the next chapter?

Primary-Extract-Aliens-Invaded-My-Talent-Show

Musical research and activities.

SLP2- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

This is a fun song to dance to that incorporates the names and actions of instruments.

Lindsey is an American music educator who has uploaded full music classes on her Youtube Channel click the link to join in.

Music learning also happens when listening to any kind of music or watching a performance. I’ve selected two, but there is plenty more material on Youtube!