Year 3CM
Hello from 3CM
We would like to introduce ourselves: I am the Year 3 class teacher, Ms McGrath, and I will be supported by Ms Mahmood and Mrs Hammad throughout the week. Mr Gonthier is also our phase lead and Deputy Head Teacher and will offer support throughout the term.
We are all excited to teach your children over the next academic year and hope to make learning engaging and interesting for all!
As always, if you have any more questions or queries, please do let me know. You can always grab me on the playground at the end of the day or message me on ClassDojo.
Miss C McGrath
Teacher Year 3
Mr R Gonthier
Deputy Headteacher
Mrs D Boylan
Teaching Assistant
Mrs J Francis
Teaching Assistant
We would firstly like to say thank you for the continued support and dedication towards your children’s learning, it doesn’t go unnoticed, and the children are making fantastic progress. We are ready and raring to go for the final term of the school year, which we hope will be our most successful yet, with lots of interesting learning and fun activities!
This Summer term, our history unit is ‘Manchester to 1900’. Where we will learn what it was like to live in our wonderful city in a period of History. We will also be learning more about our wonderful world and specifically certain countries in the ‘Northern and Southern Hemisphere’ unit in geography.
In English, we have become great storywriters and definitely have a passion for this purpose of writing. Therefore, we will continue to write different genres of stories including a disaster story. We will also try to incorporate what we are learning in Geography and produce a non – fiction information text all about volcanoes.
In our reading lessons, we will be reading a variety of text types and books by a variety of authors. Fluency and comprehension are very important, and this is something that can be helped by 10 minutes of reading at home every day. Your child will have their reading books changed every week, once they bring them into school and pop them in our home reading box. Please encourage your children to place their books in the book box in the classroom, once they have finished reading, and a staff member will change it. We aim to change reading books on Monday and Friday. Books can then be collected from the box at the end of the day to read at home.
We’ll be learning about ‘Plants and Animals including Humans’ in science as this is a great topic, which can be linked to our ‘Northern and Southern Hemisphere’ unit. In PSHE, we will be teaching our Relationships and Sex Education Unit, looking at the importance of personal space and healthy relationships.
In maths, we have done so well with number fluency, so we will be moving onto tricky fractions, time and money. Time can be a tricky topic, so we would appreciate it if at some point at home, each week, you can have a practice with your children on telling the time.
We’ll continue with our weekly PE sessions, these will take place on a Tuesday (outdoor) and Thursday morning (indoor). It would be very helpful if your child could bring their uniform in to be changed back into. This term we will be focussing on cricket and Yoga.
Our school PE kit is: A white t-shirt and dark coloured shorts or tracksuit bottoms and black trainers or pumps. Can we ask for no cropped T-shirts or bright coloured PE kits and no jewellery, please?
If you would like to talk to any of the Year 3 team, please look out for us in the playground before and after school. As always, we are happy to speak to you about any concerns you may have.
We are looking forward to the final wonderful term with your children!
Thank you all for your support.
Miss McGrath, Ms Boylan and Mrs Francis
