Owls Class

Miss Bagnall and Miss Shears

Welcome to Owls Class! The class is taught by Miss Bagnall and supported by Miss Shears. We are so excited to welcome you into year 3 and to help you with your new journey in key stage 2. I am thrilled to be teaching you again, and I am excited to see how much you have learnt in year 2!

In Owls Class, we show everyone kindness and respect, so that we can all have an excellent learning experience. We will always challenge ourselves and work to support each other, whilst ensuring we follow the schools ASPIRE values.

In English, we will be starting the term by focusing on our key grammar skills including the use of conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs. Later in the term we will be looking at the text Leon and the Place Between, by Angela McAllister where we will be able to explore our creative writing skills through a range of writing tasks.

In our Mathematics lessons, we will start by focusing on place value. We will learn how to read and write numbers as both numerals and words, as well as other ways to represent a number. This will help us to then quickly recognise a number and the place value of greater numbers. Moving forward in the term we will be learning skills for addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers and expanding our multiplication and division knowledge.

Our topic in Science this term is ‘animals, including humans’. We will be looking at different enquiries, learning all about what different animals need to eat and why, as well as how different animals’ bodies work to stay strong and healthy. 

For the first half of Autumn term we will be learning History, with a local study on how the industrial revolution changed Chard. In the second half term we will be doing Geography, where we will learn about the countries and cities of the United Kingdom and their varying features.

In the afternoons we will be enjoying a range of other subjects including Religion and Worldviews, PSHE and DT where we will be making our own healthy and nutritious breakfasts! You will also start to learn Portuguese this year!

Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday, please ensure that you have the correct PE kit and a drink for your lessons with Mr McCarten. Miss Prater will be teaching you Music on a Tuesday morning.

Please support your child at home by listening to them read 5 times a week and record this in their reading records. Homework will be set on a Friday and then marked the following Friday. If your child is struggling with homework, any of the year 3 adults will be happy to support them, or they can attend homework club after school.

We are really looking forward to seeing you all and can’t wait for an exciting first term full of amazing learning!

Miss Bagnall and Miss Shears