Classroom Secrets Online Resources

Please find below a useful link to the Classroom Secrets website. They are providing free online interactive games for all year groups in a range of subjects including Maths, Reading, Phonics, SPaG and Spelling.

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/category/learning-video-clips/

There are also some free Learning Videos for a range of subjects for different year groups:

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/category/learning-video-clips/?fwp_subscription_level=d08afb2965eb4489c73b980f38af50b1

 

Science Ideas for Home Learning

If you are wanting to do some Science and STEM learning at home, follow the links to these amazing websites!

 Explorify

You will need to create a login and it may take a little while for you to familiarise yourselves with the site, but this is a great resource! Each activity has teaching notes, explaining how to use the activity…

https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk/

Marvin and Milo

This website is a series of cartoon strip style instructions for easy to do science activities from the institute of physics. Each activity also has a simple scientific explanation.

Great activities to try are: reappearing coin, lava lamp, musical coat hanger (you can use any metal cutlery), convection snake, bouncing balls, ‘alkaseltzer’ rocket and balloon rocket.

http://www.physics.org/marvinandmilo.asp

Enjoy!

Maths Week 2019!

As part of Maths Week 2019, TT Rockstars are encouraging children to play on TT Rockstars as much as possible. They are holding a competition that we have entered. Please see the poster below:

Please encourage your children to go on TT Rockstars as much as possible and I look forward to seeing all of their success.

Mr Taylor

 

A Fantastic Start to Year 3!

We are very impressed this week with how refreshed and eager to learn the children in Year 3 have been. They have made a fantastic start to the new term and are looking forward to learning lots of exciting new things this year.

We wanted to take this opportunity to share some useful information with you:

Spelling homework will be sent home every Monday. Please write out your spellings every night and hand your book in on Friday morning.

Maths homework will be set on a Friday to be handed in the following Thursday. If your child cannot access MyMaths online for any reason, please let their class teacher know and they will provide a paper copy.

For every 3 times your child reads at home, they will receive 5 house points.

Times Tables Rock Stars certificates are given out in assembly each week for the highest number of coins earnt in a week across each year group.

Base 9 and 10 both have outdoor PE on a Friday afternoon.
Base 9 and 10 have indoor PE on a Monday afternoon. Please remember to bring the correct kit. We recommend that you send their PE kits into school on a Monday to be kept in school all week until Friday as it is always handy for children to have a spare set of clothes in school.

Each term, we will set a homework project which your child should complete over the course of the term. Each child will then present their project to the rest of the class during the last week of term.

Thank you for your support and co-operation. We are looking forward to seeing what this year brings.

Miss Craig, Mrs Richards and Miss Fisher.

Year 3 Spellings for the first half of Autumn Term

Week 2 – Adding suffixes –ment / -ness
1 hopeless
2 joyless
3 sadness
4 business
5 happiness
6 environment
7 experiment
8 document
9 Mystery word
10 Mystery word

Week 3 – Adding suffixes –ful / -less /
-ed
1 cried
2 stopped
3 dropped
4 playful
5 careful
6 plentiful
7 useless
8 careless
9 Mystery word
10 Mystery word

Week 4 – Adding suffixes –ing / -est / -y
1 hiking
2 singing
3 writing
4 shaking
5 happiest
6 shiny
7 nicest
8 smallest
9 Mystery word
10 Mystery word

Week 5 Homophones
1 accept
2 except
3 plain
4 plane
5 peace
6 piece
7 meat
8 meet
9 Mystery word
10 Mystery word

Week 6 – Homophones
1 weather
2 whether
3 rain
4 reign
5 not
6 knot
7 mist
8 missed
9 Mystery word
10 Mystery word

Week 7 – Revision
1 hopeless
2 experiment
3 cried
4 plentiful
5 singing
6 nicest
7 peace
8 meat
9 Mystery word
10 Mystery word

Times Tables Resources

In light of the Multiplication Tables Check, please see some of the links that I have attached below. They contain fun, interactive games that the children can play to brush up on their times tables.

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.timestables.co.uk/2-times-table.html

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/advice-for-parents/help-with-times-tables/#games

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

Thanks for your support,

Mr Taylor