Year 3 | Cookham Dean CE Primary School

Welcome to Year 3!

The teacher in Year 3 is Miss Townly apart from on Wednesday morning when the class will have Spanish lessons and Outdoor P.E. We are lucky to be supported by our lovely TA's Mrs Elgey (Tuesday-Friday), Mrs Gemmal and Mrs Stephenson.

We have some exciting topic days and trips planned for this year and I am looking forward to lots of creative learning taking place in our classroom.

Our topics for this year are:

Topic Title	*Focus*	Science Title	*Subject*
Gods & Mortals	History - Ancient Greece	How does your garden grow?	Parts of a plant, seed dispersal
Heroes and Villains	Music – local/historical heroes, good vs. bad, raps and rhythms.	Mirror, Mirror	Light, reflections, shadows
Urban Pioneers	Art & Design - graffiti/street art, Local history	Opposites Attract	Magnetism
Flow	Geography – river formation, water cycle, world rivers	Earth Rocks	Soil type, rocks & minerals
Predator	Science – animal/plant predators, food chains	Food & Our Bodies	Diet, muscles, bones
Tribal Tales	History – Stone Age to Iron Age	We Are Astronauts	Moon

At the beginning of each term your child will be given a pick and mix homework sheet, it is expected that all children should complete at least three of these activities each term.

We love seeing any topic work that you have completed at home and positively encourage you to bring in items relevant to the topic to share with us.

Home Learning

As we start home learning, I will be uploading their learning up on the School website week by week. The Time table which has been uploaded gives you a general idea of what activities to do and when, but it can be changed around as long as the activities are covered throughout the week. Each week there will be English and Maths activities as well as a bank of topic activities for the children to do. Any individual worksheets will be uploaded to the year 3 page on Microsoft teams.

There will also be work set on Mathletics, Bug Club and Purple Mash throughout the week, but I will send out reminders once they have been set.

I have also uploaded a link to Joe Wicks PE activities on YouTube. These are great to keep children active during the day and he also does longer ones which could be used for a PE lesson.

Spellings for the first week will be the spellings they were given last week as normal. Next week i will upload the new spellings on the school website.

It would be great if the children could practice their spellings and times tables daily and i have put a link to a times tables website and a spelling game below.

Please do not hesitate to contact if there is anything that you need guidance on or cannot find. Thank you for everything you are doing during this time, you have been amazing!

Miss Townly