Welcome to Rose Quartz Class!
Welcome to Rose Quartz Class!
During the week you will be taught by two teachers, Miss. Cholerton (Monday and Tuesday) and Mrs Thorpe (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). On a Friday afternoon Miss Musson will be covering our class while Mrs Thorpe has her PPA time (planning, preparation and assessment time).
On the webpage you will find lots of important information that will help you throughout the year. For more regular updates please check class dojo. Class dojo is the best way to contact us but you can also get in touch via email.
kcholerton@dovedale.derbyshire.sch.uk
lthorpe@dovedale.derbyshire.sch.uk
Curriculum Information and Knowledge Organisers
Please take a look at these to find out more about your child's learning this term.
PE Days - Autumn 1
Wednesday- Indoor PE
Friday - Outdoor PE
Diary dates
Autumn 1:
Tuesday 14th October - parents evening
Thursday 23rd October - Dovedale's Got Talent
Friday 24th October - Last day of Autumn 1
Autumn 2:
Monday 3rd November - INSET day
Tuesday 4th November - Children back to school
Friday 21st November - Children in Need
w/c 1st December - Celebration Week (this week the children will complete some assessments to track their progress so far)
Wednesday 17th December - Whole school panto
Friday 19th December - Last day of Autumn 2
Spellings and homework
Each week our set homework will include your child's reading as well as spelling practice for 10 weekly words. These words will follow a particular spelling rule and occasionally will be challenge words taken from the Year 3/4 statutory spellings lists. Please do not be alarmed if your child has different spellings. We will always send your child home with the spellings list associated with the Year 3 curriculum to ensure your child is accessing and familiar with these words however we may tweak spellings to ensure progress at each individual child's level. Spelling tests are on Fridays.
Alongside weekly reading, spelling and times table practice, your child will also be set some online activities linked to grammar and Maths. These activities may be set on MyMaths, TTRockStars or Spag.com. These websites were accessed during your child's time in Year 2 so shouldn't be anything new to them.
In the first Autumn Term we will be learning:
English – sentence structure and types. We will be using video stimuluses as well as talk for writing to aid children's imagination. We will also develop our narrate writing using snippets of our class novels linked to historical periods.
Maths – Number and Place Value. We will be representing both 2 and 3-digit numbers using pictures and objects, and begin to partition numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones. As the term progresses, we will begin to explore numbers up to 1000, highlighting how to represent and identify these numbers, order numbers to 1000 and compare them using number lines. Once children are secure with the basics of number and place value we will begin to explore powerful methods to support addition and subtraction.
History - In History, we will be introducing our unit of learning around Ancient Egypt. We will be looking at what life was like during this historical period.
Art - During our art lessons we will study the work of Vincent Van Gogh. We will explore his different painting styles and techniques and try to create our very own landscapes, linking this closely to Egyptian landscapes and portraits.
PSCHE & RSHE - This term will see us focus mostly in the health and relationships aspect of PSCHE, where we will be exploring emotions and providing strategies to cope with different emotions.
RE - In RE we will be thinking about what it means to be a Christian in Britain today by exploring a Christians rituals at home and comparing to non-Christians. We will explore their daily routines as well as their weekly regimes and compare to that of differing viewpoints.
Science - In Science we will be exploring forces and magnets so we can be prepared for lots of practical tasks! This is a firm favourite during the Autumn Term as the children love to get hands on and it helps form the basic understanding of investigations and experiments.
Spanish - In our new language lessons, we will be starting to introduce ourselves in Spanish and begin counting our first 15 numbers.