Hello,

We hope you have all had a pleasant week so far and would like to wish you a warm welcome back to St. Peter’s!

In English, the children have been writing about their favourite day from the Summer holidays as part of their learning on paragraphs and editing. At the start of the week, the children were taught how to create ‘topics’ before planning their ideas into three logical paragraphs – these paragraphs referred to specific events from the morning, afternoon and evening of their ‘favourite day’. Having written each paragraph, the children then took part in a carousel activity of ‘editing’ stations. These stations enabled the children to evaluate their work, respond to feedback, as well as check for the correct use of the following elements across their pieces of work: capital letters, punctuation, spellings, adjectives and grammar.

In Maths, Year Three have been looking at the place value of three digit numbers. More specifically, both classes have been learning about the ‘hundreds’ column. As the week progressed, the children were able to identify the number of hundreds within a three digit number, before moving on to show multiples of 100 through a variety of different representations using their Maths toolkits (e.g. Stone Age counting tools, beadstrings, arrow cards and place value counters). By the end of the week, Year Three were able to identify the values of each digit within a three digit number – we practised this skill through a class bingo game and a ‘find the Stone Age tools in the sand’ activity.

Please note:

• Home learning has been distributed and shall be collected by the class teacher on Friday 14th September 2018. Please refer to the ‘reading challenge’ and the ‘red spelling log’ in your child’s book bag for additional details. Further information shall be given on these during the Y3 Welcome meeting for parents on Tuesday 11th September 2018.
• We look forward to our Butser Ancient farm trips on Friday 14th September (Lions) and Monday 17th September (Hippos) 2018. Should you wish your child to attend, please ensure that the reply slip is returned to school as soon as possible. We would be incredibly grateful for any parent volunteers on either of these two dates, please indicate on the reply slip should you be able to assist.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Stewart and Mrs Sumba.