WELCOME TO OUR YEAR GROUP'S VIRTUAL PAGE. 

https://www.worldbookday.com/events/ Click on this link to join in with World Book Day live story sessions:

Don’t forget to dress up as a character or real person from a book on Thursday – the only rule is that you need to have a rummage at home to make your costume! Here are a few ideas to get you started…

These are our live lessons for WC 1/3/21:

3C: 9:00 am

3P: 9:30 am

3M: 10:00 am

Mon: History (am)  / Read Aloud with Mrs Morris (ALL 1:45pm) 

Tues: English (am) / Read Aloud with Mrs Jackson (ALL 1:45pm) 

Wed: Maths (am) / Science (ALL - 11am) / Read Aloud with Mr Bardell (ALL 1:45) 

Thurs: World Book Day - Story Creator (ALL 9am) / Guess my story (ALL 11am) / PE with Carl Easton (1pm)

Fri: RE (am) / Read Aloud with Miss Danyali (All 1:45)

Don’t forget to log into our new ‘Myon Digital Library’ too and find a new book that you like – you could post recommendations on our Google Classroom stream too!

There are really useful guides on our website for Myon now too: https://www.westlands.essex.sch.uk/eLearning-Guidance-and-Support/

We are really excited to be back in school from 8^th March and are busy planning for our return!

Mrs Morris, Mr Conway, Miss Meck and Miss Cushion

THIS WEEKS WRITING TASK 

English

We are continuing our 3 week unit of work all about News Reports. This week we will become a journalist for a newspaper. We will learn more about how newspapers are written and a few tricks of the trade for headlines and captions.

Monday

To retrieve and record information from non-fiction sources

Today you are going to become investigative reporters and use different sources of evidence to find out about an event for the newspaper article that you will write at the end of the week.

Look at the set of clues to discover WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN and WHY.

You will choose how to present what you have found out!

As an extra challenge watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgqxwnb/articles/zbsbwty and answer the quiz!

Tuesday LIVE

To use and recognise headlines and captions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgqxwnb/articles/zbsbwty

In today’s lesson we will learn about different features of a newspaper report.

Read the newspaper report that is the right challenge for you and then decide on a headline and caption for that report.

Wednesday

To plan a recount for a news report about a historical discovery

Use the information that you discovered on Monday to create a plan that you will follow to write the report later in the week.

Box it up plan:

Thursday

WORLD BOOK DAY!

Today’s lessons are all about reading and illustration:

Friday

To write a newspaper report about a historical discovery

Use your plan and what you have learned this week to write your report for the newspaper.

THIS WEEKS READING TASK

We are really excited to share our new Myon digital library with you. There are over 5000 books for you to read; your account also links to your Accelerated Reader account and you will be able to complete quizzes once you have finished a book. We hope that you enjoy this fabulous new resource. 

Click link: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/index.html

The login for this site is the same as your Accelerated Reader login. If you aren’t sure what this is, it should be in your reading diary. Alternatively, you can send a message to us on Google Classroom via the ‘Myon Login’ assignment under classwork.

Happy exploring everyone!

THIS WEEKS READING TASK 

We will be using https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/ for daily lessons and tasks. The video for each lesson is linked below. We use this scheme in school so the format of the tasks will be familiar and we are keeping our usual RED (level 1),  YELLOW (level 2) or BLUE (level 3) challenges just like we do in class. You should not have to pay or sign up as we have subscribed as a school.

Just as before, there is work for each day. These are posted as assignments each day on Google Classroom. The challenges are on pdfs which you should be able to do on screen (by downloading the pdf:

• click on the three dots to ‘open in new window’ to download
• then open in Adobe Acrobat Reader which you can download for free https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/
• click ‘fill and sign’

Alternatively just view on the screen and complete answers on a piece of paper which you can then upload to your student tab.

This week in Maths:

We are continuing to learn about different units of measurement: metres, centimetres and millimetres and how to convert our measurements into different units. We will also learn how to add and subtract measurements and how to find the perimeter of an object/shape.

Monday 1^st:

LO: To add and convert measurements into different units

• Watch Mr Conway’s introduction video first.
• Then click on the link below and watch the ‘Add Length’ video. https://vimeo.com/506146810
• Remember to choose the correct challenge for just like we do in school:

red, yellow or blue. There may also be a challenge for you to try.

Tuesday 2^nd :

LO: To subtract and convert measurements into different units

• Watch Mr Conway’s introduction video first.
• Then click on the link below and watch the ‘Subtract Length’ video. https://vimeo.com/506146876
• Remember to choose the correct challenge for just like we do in school:

red, yellow or blue. There may also be a challenge for you to try.

Wednesday 3^rd:

LO: To identify and understand what a perimeter is

• Watch Mr Conway’s introduction video first.
• Then click on the link below and watch the ‘What Perimeter is’ video. https://vimeo.com/507042543
• Remember to choose the correct challenge for just like we do in school:

red, yellow or blue. There may also be a challenge for you to try.

Thursday 4^th:

There is no Maths lesson today due to World Book Day activities.

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Friday 5^th:

LO: Calculate the perimeter, convert and use different methods to add and subtract measurements.

• Watch Mr Conway’s introduction video first.
• There is no video today from Whiterose.
• Remember to choose the correct challenge for just like we do in school:

red, yellow or blue. There may also be a challenge for you to try.

Extras

Don’t forget to take part in the battle on Times Table Rockstar’s

Sing along to the BBC Super movers for our timetables practice: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-collection/z7frpg8

You could also visit top marks to play some additional maths games: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/mental-maths

Or

Maths frame:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/  

THIS WEEKS NON-CORE TASK 

Monday 1st- History LIVE:

• LO: To learn when and how people learned to make iron.
• You will need plain paper and a pencil.

 Re-Watch the link from the lesson with Miss Meck. - Discovering Iron in Iron Age – BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-discovering-iron-in-iron-age-britain/zn3hf4j

Wednesday 3^rd Science LIVE 11:00:

• LO: To compare how things move on different surfaces
• Red Challenge print off the worksheet.
• Yellow and Blue challenge create your own worksheet similar to the pre-made one before the live lesson.
• Join Miss Meck LIVE at 11:00 for this science investigation.

Re- Watch the link from the lesson with Miss Meck – What is friction – BBC Bitesize Link.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsxxsbk/articles/zxqrdxs

Friday 5th- RE LIVE:

• LO: To know the parable and meaning of The  Good Samaritan
• You will need Plain paper and a pencil.

Re-Watch the link from the lesson with Miss Meck.  - The Good Samaritan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLzdQtetedc

THIS WEEKS SPREAD THE HAPPINESS TASK 

Spread the Happiness

This week is BOOK WEEK, so we have planned some extra activities all around illustration  for you to join in with (or just watch!). We hope you enjoy them. These will appear on Google Classroom over the week, so keep looking out for them underneath the ‘Happiness’ tab in classwork.