Welcome back to term 3. We hope that you had a restful and enjoyable Christmas break and the children are ready for the exciting challenges and learning we have this term.

Please find the timetable for term 3 and the topic page for this term below which outlines some of the learning we will be doing this term.

RE

The children began the term by looking at the religion of Judaism and the importance of Passover and how Jewish people celebrate this festival. The children were quickly able to link this to their previous learning from term one when we learned about Moses leading his people to freedom.

We have thought carefully about how we can live our lives more like Jesus and looked at the Catholic Social Teaching of putting those most in need before ourselves. We looked at the things we can do at school, at home and in our community to put those in most need before ourselves using the stories of Jesus and how He would want us to live our lives and Poppy the popokotea.

Throughout the rest of the term, the children have learned about some of the miracles of Jesus and how we can live our lives like Jesus and spread the Good News.

Maths

The children have got stuck into our first maths unit of money by looking at the different coins and notes we can use to pay for different things and how we can use our knowledge of place value, addition and subtraction to work out various calculations including working out change.

The children really enjoyed setting up a shop and acting out as customer and shop keeper to further develop their knowledge and understanding of money and money problems.

For the latter part of the term, we have dived into the world of multiplication and division. The children have been working hard in understanding their times tables and the connection with division. We are working hard in learning and using our 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

English

We have started the term with a poetry unit. The children have learned the techniques of writing Kenning poems and have enjoyed writing various poems on different subjects in riddle form, reading them aloud so that we can all try and guess what their poem is all about.

The children have loved immersing themselves into the book 'Handa's Surprise. We have done lots of work on adjectives, nouns and verbs and created our own stories based on the story.

Science

The children have enjoyed learning more about animals and humans in this terms topic. We have found out more about what things keep us healthy, including diet, exercise and hygiene and carried out some fun experiments to help us prove this

Geography

This term we have been learning all about the continent of Africa and in particular the country of Egypt. We have looked at where Egypt is and how this affects the climate they have. We have also looked at the animals and people native to Egypt as well as the physical and human landmarks found in the country.

Art

Our art topic has linked to our geography topic and the children loved designing and making their own African style necklace.

We have also honed our skills of weaving from last year by making our own 'Handa's surprise' basket and then worked on our skill of producing a running stitch to make the Egyptian flag.

PE

The children have worked extremely hard in their PE sessions of gymnastics this term. We have worked on using our core muscles to control our balance on different body parts and used various pieces of equipment to challenge ourselves in different ways. We have learned to work as a team to produce a series of balances and supporting one another.

Computing

Our computing topic of online safety has highlighted some important areas for the children in an ever increasing technological world. We have started the term by learning the importance of effective and safe searching and filtering to investigate finding out information. We have also looked at what emails are and how to send and receive emails safely.

Music

The children have loved going on safari through Africa in our music topic and using various instruments to mimic the noise of different African animals and looking more deeply at timbre.

Road Safety

We were pleased to have The Road Safety Workshop where the children were able to build upon the things they learned last year and find out about safe places and ways to cross the road safely. 

NSPCC Number Day

The children had an exciting but important day celebrating number day in support of NSPCC. The children took part in some exciting maths learning throughout the day whilst thinking about why we support NSPCC Number Day.

Online Safety Day

The children continued to learn more about their digital footprint and the steps they can take to remain safe online. We also looked at scams and how we can outs things in place to protect ourselves form scams.

A showcase of our learning for term 3 where the parents were able to look through all the children's work form this term.