World Book Day

Thank you to all the hard you did for World Book Day, the children looked fantastic. We had a great time exploring the school on our treasure hunt. The school had raised a lot of money and would like to say thank you for collecting sponsorship. 

Change to PE 

This term our PE days will be Tuesday for cricket with our Chance to Shine cricket coach, Ryan. This is a great opportunity to build a love for cricket and get involved in your local clubs. Brockenhurst has a wonderful club and if your children enjoy it, sign them up.

Swimming is still on Thursdays as per usual. 

 Book Change 

 Book change will be back on Fridays. As always bring your book in and reading diary every day as we  check them regularly at school.

Blog

English: we have been looking at the poetry book 'A Kid In My Class', by Rachel Rooney. It is a wonderful book, that is well illustrated, and I would recommend parents picking up a copy if they get the opportunity. 

In Maths, we have been focusing on 2D shapes, parallel and perpendicular lines. If you would like to  make comparisons at home, this would help reinforce students learning. 

Reminders:

Parent teacher meetings are happening next Tuesday and Thursday. 

Swimming on Thursday.

Library change on Monday.

Book change on Wednesday.

Year 3 - Swimming Reminders

Maths Olympics

This is a house sports events, where children run around an obstacle course to collect maths questions and return to their team to solve them. Year groups work together in their houses (Years 3+4). The skills that we worked on included perseverance, encouraging others, praising others and helping them. 

Winchester Science Centre Trip

Thank you to all those who have returned their reply slips. I'll let parents who have offered to help know as soon as I can. 

In Lessons

We have completed our 3, 4 and 8 timetables. But keep practising on TT Rock Stars.  We have started learning about unit fractions.  You can ask your children about numerators and denominators, and hopefully they will be able to reply with the correct part of the fraction they are.  

This Week

The children were in shock and Mr Wilcox and Mrs Cooper went on strike over the sharpness of pencils and the wonky sheets being stuck into books. This later led onto the introduction of the protest book, The Day the Crayons Quit.  This is a lovely book that we will be focussing on over the next few weeks. 

In Maths the children have been learning about adding money. 

In Geography, we started our new topic Sustainability. Thinking about how we can live better on our planet. 

Reminders

Monday - Library change

Thursday and Friday - PE

Friday - book change. 

Art: over the past 2 weeks we have been creating our very own Stone Age art pictures. This is based on the Lascaux Stone Age art found in French cave. 

History: We looked at why the Stone Age tribes were nomadic, and thought about what a tent in winter might have inside and outside to keep them safe. 

Maths: In Maths we have started adding 3-digit numbers and ones and 3-digit numbers and hundreds. 

English: we have finished our Stone Age stories and have learnt how to check our spellings using a dictionary.