Welcome to Year Three!

Welcome back to the first half of the summer term! I hope you have had a brilliant two week break and enjoyed lots of time together. As the weather (hopefully) improves over the course of this half term, we plan to spend much more time learning outdoors. With this in mind, please endeavour to ensure that children arrive at school each morning prepared for the weather. This should include a waterproof jacket, sunhat, sunscreen and most importantly a refillable drinks bottle. 

Please note: this half term, our PE slots will be taking place on a MONDAY and TUESDAY.

My PPA will be covered by Mrs Tomlinson on a Monday morning and she will teach Times Tables/Arithmetic, French and PE. 

You can follow our learning journey via our school twitter account @LittleLeighSch and our facebook page, where I will post updates and pictures.

If you need to discuss anything with me, please don't hesitate to contact me on my school email rrochellgill@littleleighprimary.cheshire.sch.uk.

Miss Rochell-Gill & Mrs Tomlinson

This half term in History we will be answering the question...

'How did the Ancient Egyptians achieve so much?'

Within this unit of work we will continue to develop our archaeological skills, pose and answer questions about the past and use a range of primary and secondary sources to build a picture of life and achievements in Ancient Egypt.

Our study will include opportunities to:

• Understand how we know about this time in the past and learn which discoveries helped us to understand more, including Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Identify the significance of the River Nile in Ancient Egypt's success as a civilisation.
• Consider how roles and rules for different groups of people within society helped to achieve success.
• Identify what we can learn from the creation of the great pyramids and what this tells us about beliefs at the time.

 As Writers...

Our writing will focus around the beautiful book 'The Egyptian Cinderella' written by Shirley Climo. We will make comparisons between traditional tale and alternative version before writing our own versions inspired by both.

Poor Rhodopis! She has nothing―no mother or father, and no friends. She is a slave, from the far-off country of Greece. Only the beautiful rose-red slippers her master gives her can make Rhodopis smile.

So when a falcon swoops down and snatches one of the slippers away, Rhodopis is heartbroken. For how is she to know that the slipper will land in the lap of the great Pharaoh himself And who would ever guess that the Pharaoh has promised to find the slipper’s owner and make her queen of all Egypt.

As Readers...

Our Shared Reading texts will incorporate a variety of genres, plots and writing styles to help broaden and strengthen our fluency, understanding and comprehension.

This unit marries nicely with our History learning this half term and will help to strengthen our knowledge of Ancient Egypt:

As Mathematicians...

We will:

• Solidify our knowledge of calculating perimeter
• Collect, record, analyse and compare data using a variety of statistical measures
• Re-cap Y2 fractions knowledge before moving onto Y3 fractions curriculum content.
• Add, subtract and convert between units of mass and capacity.

Our maths homework will be focused on developing and securing our knowledge of times tables as this is such an integral part of our maths skillset. Children are expected to regularly access their TTRockstars account at home alongside other useful, free apps/games including White Rose 1-minute Maths and Topmarks.

Please find below some links to songs that we will be using in class to help with times table recall:

Mr Demaio 3 x song               Skip count by 4                        Mr Demaio 8 x song 

Hit the Button is also another fantastic online resource that aims to build confidence in multiplication and division recall and can be used regularly for free on the Topmarks website amongst other great interactive games.

As Scientists...

Our focus will be on Light.

We will:

• recognise that we need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light
• notice that light is reflected from surfaces
• recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect our eyes
• recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object
• find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change