This week in English we have loved finding out more about our story character Stig and realising our predictions were correct he is a caveman.

In maths we are slowly getting to the end of our addition and subtraction unit. There has been lots of progress and many children being able to really challenge themselves.

This week has been very busy for us all and we are getting in as much preparation as possible for our upcoming assembly on Friday 20th November.  Please ensure that your child has learnt their lines for this.

Please see this weeks home learning below.

Also a very big well done for the improvements so many of you are making in swimming. There has been some real progress made since the first lesson.

Many thanks and I hope you all have an amazing weekend.

Miss Hopper

Hello all,

I hope you all had an amazing and restful half term, welcome back.

It has been a good start back after the October break and there has been a lot of hard work, especially on up levelling our writing and focusing on using challenging vocabulary.

We have been enjoying reading our new reading text for this half term ‘Stig of the dump.’ We have only read the first 2 chapters but already we are enjoying the challenging vocabulary and new words. We can’t wait to continue reading.  Alongside this we are also reading Charlottes web at the end of the day and are enjoying this.

In maths we have also been really challenging ourselves to answer some tricky addition and subtraction questions that include exchanging and borrowing. We have also been working on 2 and 3 part worded questions.

Next week is a busy week, we will be having an author visit from Zoe Antoniades on Monday which we are all looking forward to.

We will also be doing lots of practice for our upcoming assembly please allow your child  time to listen to the song below and learn the words and moves they have been  learning in school.

Please see this weeks home learning below;

Another interesting week in Zakynthos we enjoyed finishing off all of our units for this half term and taking part in quizzes to see what we could remember.

We wrote stories in English about a resilient character who never gives up. Lots of the children wrote with a good level of detail and are beginning to understand the importance of self editing.

In maths we have been continuing our learning on using the column method and lots of us have enjoyed being challenged by using the column method and having to exchange across 10’s and 100’s.

In History we brought together everything we have learnt about Nelson Mandela and created our own fact file.

In science we made posters about how our bones help us to move and the nutrients that our bodies need to keep working and stay healthy.

We are all excited to see what next half term brings us.

Please see this weeks home learning below, including a project for over the half term.

Thank you to those parents that booked to come and see more for parents evening. If you did not manage to come and make an appointment, please do come and see me after school and we can arrange an alternative time for us to meet.

A reminder that our class assembly has been moved and will now take place on 20th November.

Have a restful half term and look forward to seeing you all in a weeks time.

Miss Hopper

Please also keep in mind individual and sibling photo’s will be on the first day back at school Monday 3rd November. 

This week in Zakynthos we have enjoyed reading more into the story of the tree and the river and have spent a long time looking at the pictures in the book and what they might mean, with some excellent outcomes and understanding. We then looked at the poetic feature of personification and how this can help to describe non living objects. We wrote our own poems using personification.

In maths we have made the link between place value and addition and subtraction. We are beginning to cement our understanding of the column method and how this works we have also begun to think about what happens when we need to exchange numbers across place value columns.

In science we have learnt to understand the different nutrition groups and how each of them have a different purpose and need. We planned our own nutritionally balanced meal.

As we come to the end of our learning on Nelson Mandela we now have a good understanding of the reasons Nelson Mandela fought for freedom.

Please see this weeks home learning below.

Please note- Our assembly that should have been next week has now been postponed until after half term-  Thursday  12th November. 

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Hopper

Hello all,

Another busy week in Zakynthos.

In English we have started looking at poetry. We read the poem ‘The magic box’ by Kit Wright. We have been learning to read poems aloud with intonation, confidence and expression. We have written some of our own versus that we believe would work well with this poem. Next week we will be writing our own Poems a bout special things to us that we would like to keep in a box.

In maths we have moved from place value to addition and subtraction and how place value can help us with this, We have been looking at what happens when we add or take away 1’s,10’s,100’s and the pattern between these.

In History we are now delving deeper into understanding why people protested against the apartheid and what condition must have been like for Nelson Mandela in prison.

In RE we continue to think about Gods love and what this means for us.

In Science we have begun to think about what we eat help or hinders our bodies and nutrition in food and how this supports us. For next weeks lesson if you have any old food packaging with nutritional value on the side please can you give this to your child to bring in to school. 

This weeks home learning is below.

Many thanks

Miss Hopper

Hello all,

Again we have had a very busy week in year 3 with some very lovely weather.

In English we have been writing our final copies of our own stories based on the work of a familiar author.  Some of these were excellent with some very detailed vocabulary. Next week we will begin working on our second book ‘The magic box’ .

In Maths we have finished our unit on ‘Place Value’ and are moving on to cover addition and subtraction. Please do ensure that your children are at least attempting the Maths shed lessons as these coincide with what we are learning in school.

In RE we ave been thinking about who God shows his love to and how? and have also worked on understanding the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah.

In art we are beginning to develop better shading techniques and working on shading from light to dark.

In history we continued to learn about ~Nelson Mandela and the apartheid. We are beginning to think about how living in this way would have impacted peoples lives and  how the rules set by the government were unfair.

We had our second swimming lesson this week and there has already been progress in some of the children.

Please see our home learning below.

Many thanks Miss Hopper and the Year 3 team.

Hello all

It has been a very busy couple of weeks back to school. All of the children have been settled into year 3 and are beginning to become familiar with our new routines.

This week  

In English we have been reading the story ‘Mini Rabbit not lost’ We looked carefully at different skills that we need to structure a story. We worked on using interesting verbs and subordinating conjunctions to give more detail. We ended the week by planning our own stories based around the structure of ‘Mini Rabbit not lost’.

In Maths we have been working on ensuring that we have a good, solid understanding of place value. We have been been working on knowing and partitioning numbers to 1000 and finding 10 and 100 more than a given number.

In History we have begun learning about Nelson Mandela and his early life.

In Science we have been learning about the human skeleton, we made our own skeleton using split pins and enjoyed learning the names of some of the bones and joints.

We also had our first swimming lesson this week- Thank you for ensuring that all children had their swimming kits.

This weeks home learning includes spelling in the Purple Home learning book as well as spelling and maths activities on Ed Shed. There is a writing task as usual which should be completed in your purple books but also a longer project which can be completed over the next couple of weeks.

Many thanks

Miss Hopper

Dear Parents, Carers

This week in English, the children started a new unit called Non-Chronological Report unit featuring ‘A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals’, by Claire Grace. We first looked at the front cover of the book and the children talked about what they saw and had to identify the features of the genre, and establish the purpose and audience of the core text. They also had to edit and improve a Non-Chronological Report example, where they had to add a title, subheadings, and expanded noun phrases.

In Maths, they children focused on arithmetic and reasoning questions.

In RE, the children’s lesson was about exploring special objects used in Jewish worship. We looked at various items that the Jewish people, especially the men used when they pray, such as  wearing special clothes, a Tallit (a fringed shawl worn on the shoulders), and a Kippah (a small cap worn to show respect, also called a Capel). The Tallit has special tassels called tzitzit and there  are 613 tassels in total and it reminds the Jewish people of the 613 Commandments (laws or Mitzvot) in the Torah, given by God.

We have completed all the spellings for Year 3, on Edshed is a revision list of words.

Please find the home learning attached using the link below.

Zakynthos Home Learning – (10.07.26)

We wish you a very happy weekend!

Miss Weithers and Mrs Adrien

Dear Parents, Carers,

This week in English, the children continued with our unit ‘Poetry’ and focused on learning about Kenning  Poems. They had to create a mind map of ideas for their own kenning poem, then they drafted their poem, edited it changing words that were more suitable and then finally, published their amazing Kenning Poem and performed it in front of the class.

In Maths, we started a new unit called ‘Statistics’. The children learnt to read and interpret information presented in pictograms, building on their learning from Year 2. They constructed their own pictograms using given data on a range of topics and learnt to interpret bar charts, making links to their knowledge of pictograms.

In RE, we took a look the the Feast Day of St Paul and St Peter which takes place on the 29th June each year. The children learnt about the significance of these two Saints and how St Peter and St Paul are important to Christians and Greek Orthodox Christians because they helped share Jesus’ teachings and built the early Church. The Saints are examples of faith, courage, and service to God.

In Design and Technology, out topic is ‘Textile’ and the children will be learning how to use cross-stitch and appliqué when designing and making a cushion.  They had the experience of learning how to sew, decorate and repair a piece of fabric with style. They learnt how to do a cross stitch and an appliqué, and the word appliqué actually means applied, it’s like adding a beautiful patch. They persevered when trying to thread the needle and enjoyed trying different types of stitches.

In PSHE, we completed the unit with ‘Can anyone be anything?’ We talked and discussed about how every person can excel in any job, regardless of their gender and that a person’s gender does not matter when choosing a job. Also, to understand that all jobs can be performed by any gender and that it’s people’s abilities and talents that determines what they can do, not their gender.

Please find the home learning attached using the link below and we have also included a spelling sheet as extra support.

Zakynthos Home Learning – (03.07.26)

Homework Sheet – Revision Words (Lesson 36)

We wish you a peaceful weekend!

Miss Weithers and Mrs Adrien