Welcome to Danescourt Primary School
Croeso i Ysgol Gynradd Danescourt
Additional Information
Hello, Year 3 parents and guardians!
Welcome to our webpage. We have some useful information for you below:
PE and Games Lessons
Magnolia
PE (Indoor) is on a Monday.
Games (Outdoor) is on a Wednesday.
Maple and Mulberry
PE (Indoor) is on a Monday.
Games (Outdoor) is on a Wednesday.
P.E. KITS
- For indoor P.E - children will need shorts and a t-shirt (and suitable footwear if your child has a verruca).
- For outdoor P.E - children will need clothing appropriate to weather conditions (sweatshirt or fleece and jogging bottoms if cold). Trainers (suitable and safe, not expensive) will also be needed.
HOMEWORK
- Book bags are due in on a Thursday and will be taken home on a Friday, your comments about how your child has read during the week are always very valuable.
- Spellings will be given out on a Wednesday and the children will be tested the following Wednesday.
- Maths homework will be available on the interactive online platform ‘Active Learn’
- Where applicable, other homework tasks will be given to support learning in the classroom
SNACK
- Children can pay £1.50 a week for a healthy snack of fruit or vegetables from the fruit tuck shop. There are significant reductions if you choose to pay for the whole term. Please send snack money into school in an envelope with your child’s name clearly written on the front with class and amount. Alternatively children can bring in fruit or vegetables of their choice to be eaten during morning play
- Water bottles can be brought into school, containing only fresh unflavoured water clearly labelled. Children are always allowed access to fresh drinking water throughout the day.
Classes Mulberry & Magnolia
Dosbarthiadau Mulberry a Magnolia
Class Mulberry - Miss C. Lawton
Class Magnolia - Mrs S. Pardoe & Mrs S. Davies
Our Context for Learning this half-term is called:
Sportswear Designers!
Language, Literacy and Communication
Oracy - We are presenting talks on a chosen topic to the rest of the class.
Writing - We are studying Bill's New Frock as a text type. We are learning the following genres of writing:
· Persuasion
· Instructional
· Explanation
Reading - We are reading a variety of texts linked to Sportswear Designers E.g. the life of diiferent sporitng hero, how the body works, sporitng event information texts.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Science- We will be expanding our science skills investigating how the body works.
DT- We will design different types of kits.
Music- Compose a piece of music with a sporting influence.
Geography- Sporting events linked to our capital city linked to persuasion texts.
Physical Development
PE and Games
PE- We will be developing our dance element. Composing and performing a series of linked movements to a famous sporting them alongside sporting positions.
Games
We are developing skills linke dto out upcoming Sports Day such as hurdling, shuttle relay and racing.
We will also continue to develop fitness, stamina and an awareness of liviing a healthy lifestyle linked to our current Context for Learning.
Mathematical Development
Mental maths - We will revise all of the skills taight this year including times table practice, adding several small numbers and subtracting within given numbers to 100. We will also practise mental methods for the four number operations.
Number: We will be larnign to add and subtract using the column method.
We are also studying measurement, data handling and shape.
Mathematical Reasoning: We will be completing investigations, word problems and reasoning activities linked to our mathematical curriculum. Through our context for learning Sportswear Designers, we will be applying skills taught in mathematics. Our main focus will be applying what we know about data handling to create graphs linked with science.
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PSE, RE, Well-being, Cultural Diversity
PSE
The topic in 'You Can Do It' this half-term is 'Getting Along'. This has strong links with Thinking and in particular P4C.
We will also focus on:
Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship: Appreciation of the world, poverty, school life and environmental issues created by humans
Moral and Spiritual Development:
Personal values, honesty and integrity.
Preparing for lifelong learning:
Children will learn to take increasing responsibility for their learning.
Well being
Weekly R Time nurture groups will continue.
RE
We will be focus on the symbolism of water within religion.
ICT
This half term we will be using 'Scratch' software to developing our digital competency with a particular focus on :
My Digital World.
Children will be learning how to Skype and write an email.
We will also cover how to stay safe online.
Creative Development
Art and Design: Cretae piece of artwork linked to water theme in RE.
Music: Create compositions linked to sporting events.
Children will study the main musical elements such as timbre, dynamics and pace and apply these with effect tot ehir compositions.
Welsh Language Development
Our current CfL is:
Anifeiliaid Anwes Pets
Fi a Fy Ffrindiau Me and My Friends
We will be:
- Expressing a variety of preferences
- Asking questions
- Extending sentences and responses using: ond, achos, achos mae'n
- Increasing our vocabulary in order to write a series of dialogues
- Reading Welsh story books in GGR
