We’ve had such a busy term so far in Primary 3. Here is some information about what we will be learning this term as well as some other information we thought might be useful.

We have added in some ideas for home, we hope you find these helpful. If you think on any other ideas that you would like to share with us, and other parents, please leave a comment.

Important information

This term P.E. is on Thursdays and Fridays. On these days it would be helpful for children to attend school in polo shirts rather than shirts and ties. Jewellery is also discouraged on these days for safety reasons.

In order to stay hydrated throughout the day, children are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school with water in it to be used in class.

Learning Context for this Term…

Peter and the Wolf

This term our topic will be based around the story of Peter and the Wolf.

We will work closely as a year group to use this story to inform discussions as well as develop our skills in music and drama.

We will also use this as a stimulus for writing lessons and to develop our descriptive language in relation to characters and settings.

If you would like to see the story for yourselves to take forward discussions at home, have a look on YouTube…

Literacy Skills/Knowledge…

This term the main skills and knowledge we will be focusing on in Literacy are:

• Creating sentences with capital letters and full stops
• Gaining a greater understanding of common nouns
• Using interesting adjectives (‘WOW’ words) and connectives in their written work.
• Focusing on the layout of our work in jotters

 

Numeracy and Maths Skills/Knowledge…

We are currently focusing on ‘Time’ we have been consolidating our learning of o’clock and half past times and are currently working on quarter past with a view to be moving on to studying quarter to times. We have been using analogue and digital clocks.

We are also learning what it means to estimate, as part of this we are learning the rules for rounding up and down to the nearest 10 or 100.

We will be working on addition and subtraction within 100 using written methods as well as developing our mental agility when mentally adding and subtracting numbers between 0-20

We are also learning our 3 times table.

For extra practice at home, ask us what time it is at different points throughout the day. Or give us some quick fire rounding, addition and subtraction questions or even times table practice!

 

Science

We are learning about animals in particular what they eat. So far we have learned the difference between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and we will be going on to look at simple food chains.

HWB

Within Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about food as our bodies source of energy. We will learn about the main food groups and how these help our bodies function.