Year 3 Summer Newsletter

Happy Summer Term to you all! Finally, the longer days are upon us, and our fingers are crossed for some sunshine. We very much look forward to a jam-packed, yet exciting Summer Term, and we know the children will really enjoy everything we have planned for them.

This term, our main theme will be Ancient Egypt! This is our History topic, but we will link this to our learning across the Curriculum, especially our Art and Reading. Some highlights include our Mummification of a fish, and our Amazing Egyptian Extravaganza.

Although this is one of our key topics, some subjects will still be taught discretely, where they do not easily dovetail into the overall theme.

As we continue our journey through the curriculum, we would like to take this opportunity to thank-you all for your continued support.  The summer term is always an exciting and busy term and we truly value all of the support with school events, home learning and dress up days!

Home Learning:

Home learning will continue to be set on a Monday, via Teams, and it should be turned into Teams, by the following Monday. This will continue to be spellings, times tables and reading practise. We recommend practising the spellings and timetables, little and often, as this the best way for children to absorb the learning fully. On your home learning task, we have provided some useful links that your children may want to use to help learn their times tables. In addition, once a term the children will be set a learning log. This is a creative activity; therefore, it will be a 2-week learning task. Keep your eyes peeled for an exciting Egyptian Learning Log, coming up later this term. If there are any problems with home learning, please let your child’s class teacher know as soon as possible.

REMINDERS

P.E. - We would like to remind you that all Year 3 pupils will need to wear their PE Kits to school every Wednesday and Friday. Pupils will have two P.E. lessons each week (see each classes additional P.E. day, below). For reasons of safety and personal hygiene, it is important that they are appropriately dressed for the P.E. activities. Additional safety precautions during PE: Earrings need to be removed or covered with plasters or tape (to be supplied from home) and long hair needs to be tied back. No watches or rings please.

P.E. Kit: Children are encouraged to wear black shorts and or jogging bottoms; their house-coloured hoodie, their house-coloured PE t-shirt. Please ensure that your child has appropriate footwear. At this time, all games will be held outdoors, therefore, trainers are essential to ensure your child can take part in all activities safely.

Upcoming events:

This term, we have an exciting trip to Portsdown Hill, linked to our Geography and writing units. Later in Summer Term 2, we will be sending out details about our Egyptian Exhibition. Keep your eyes peeled for more information about this.

Please remember to check our Teams page regularly, as we often post updates and reminders via this platform.

We are sure that we will have a positive and successful final term; please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have via the office email:   solentjunior@thesolentschools.org

Here’s to a full-packed and enjoyable Summer Term!

The Year 3 Teachers

Miss Atkins, Mrs Dodds, Miss Nicholas and Mr Mason