Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
What a great first half-term we have had, here in Year 3! It is a big jump to go from KS1 to KS2 and the children have transitioned so well.
Over the last few weeks, we have been extremely busy learning new English and maths skills, studying R.E, science and geography. We have had a house team competition and topped it all off with a Halloween celebration!
In English, we absolutely loved reading about the mischief of Andy and Terry in The 13-Storey Treehouse - what a cheeky pair they are! We laughed at loud at some of the chapters and had a great time creating our own storey in the tree! In geography, we have learnt about land use by exploring the town centre and about temperate biomes in the school grounds.
In science, we learned about forces and skeletons, whilst in R.E we loved learning about Hinduism and their celebration of light, Diwali. We drew our own Rangoli patterns and made our own puja tray.
Darwin took the victory for our phase in the bench ball competition and wow! You lot turned it up a notch this year when it came to Halloween costumes! There were more homemade costumes than ever and everyone really went to town. It was so hard for the VOC to judge the winners of our phase but there was a winner from Y4 and two winners from Y3 - Jamie Gibbon and Luna Hall!
We hope that you all have a great half-term holiday, enjoy Halloween and stay safe out there!
In English we have been reading the story Polonious the Pit Pony and we had a special delivery at the start of the week. There were missing posters all around school. We had to make predictions about what this may mean for the characters in the story and we predicted where he might be. The children enjoyed lots of drama and role play activities based around our story such as hot seating and freeze frame!
In Maths we have been focusing on number and place value. To help us partition 2 and 3 digit numbers we have been exploring with the place value counters and used the part, part whole model too. We learnt about the digits in our number and the values that they represented.
In Art we had another special delivery from local artist; John Smith who sent us a challenge. We have been working very hard this week to refine our oil pastel skills in order to create a piece of art work which will be sent to his gallery. We have been learning about figurative drawing and how to create a warm or cool background.
Myself and Miss Burnip are extremely proud of how well the children have settled into life in Year 3! Keep up the great work!
Key dates: Muddy Mayhem - This is held on Friday 20th September at 1:45pm.
End of Year Film
Award Winners
3F
| Maths | Freddie Sproat |
| English | Misha Glaister |
| Curriculum Subjects | Lachlan Connor |
| Emerald Power | Amelia Bowes |
| Diamond Power | Jak Beasley |
| Ruby Power | Savannah Klijn |
| Sapphire Power | Joshua Bowes |
| Gem Master | Neve Dunn |
| Being a Good Sports Person | River Thompson |
| Greatest Effort | Grace Piper |
| Most Progress | Indie-Mai Sung Brown |
| Outstanding Achievement | Daniel Reed |
3S
| Maths | Jenson Coleman |
| English | Ellie Chalder |
| Curriculum Subjects | Luke Blair |
| Emerald Power | Sophie Pearson |
| Diamond Power | Arthur Hendry |
| Ruby Power | Skye Johnson |
| Sapphire Power | Olivia Ryan |
| Gem Master | Abigail Gregory |
| Being a Good Sports Person | Freddie Underwood |
| Greatest Effort | Leona Watret |
| Most Progress | JJ Denham |
| Outstanding Achievement | Sophie Hird |
Mrs Fox
Miss Burnip
What does it sound like to be fluent in times tables?
What does it mean to be fluent in times tables?
Why do children need to be fluent in times tables?
What does it sound like to be reading at the expected standard in Year 3?
What does it mean to be a fluent reader?
Reading fluency - a combination of the following components:
What to look out for:
How many words per minute should your child be reading?
The following figures are based on the child reading this amount of words in an age appropriate text. Some examples of age appropriate texts can be found below.
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End of the Autumn term (by Christmas) |
End of the Spring term (by Easter) |
End of the Summer term (by Summer) |
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Year 3 |
90 |
100 |
110 |
Year 3 texts:
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