Monarch Class - Year 3
Monarch is a Year 3 class and the teacher is Miss Higgins.
Welcome to Monarch Class!
Welcome to Monarch! You are now starting your Key Stage Two journey - how exciting! You will be building on your prior learning from Key Stage One, as well as challenging yourself in new subjects, such as French! Our classroom is a calm and safe place where our curiosity, creativity and learning will flourish.
Miss Higgins
Class Updates
We've had an amazing start to the Autumn 2 term!
The children have loved immersing themselves into our new Geography topic: Earthquakes and Volcanoes. The home learning was incredible! In English, we have been writing our very own twisted narrative and I have been really impressed with the vocabulary used by the children. Monarch have blown my socks off in Science as they have shown their incredible working scientific skills such as observing and predicting. As we come up to Christmas, the children will begin rehearsing for their Christingle production - I am looking forward to all of the Christmas festivities!
Spring 1
Monarch class have come back to school after the Christmas break with such a positive attitude! In Writing, we have immersed ourselves into an unusual discovery, inspired by our class reader, The Boy who Grew Dragons, from Autumn 1. The children have been challenging themselves in maths by using column multiplication with exchanges! Our immerse day was an absolute hit! I was blown away by the costumes, home learning and creativity of the children when making Anglo-Saxon jewellery. I am looking forward to a jam-packed half-term and making more memories in Year 3!
Spring 2
Welcome to Spring 2! I have loved welcoming the children back into school after the half term. We have kick-started our learning and I have felt so proud of how the children have conducted themselves within all of our lessons. In Geography, we started our learning all about Rivers and the Water Cycle, learning the different aspects of the water cycle and creating models to show this. The children showed amazing teamwork skills when making their models which was wonderful to see. In Writing, we have read 'Manfish: The Story of Jacques Cousteau' as our stimulus to write a non-chronological report. We have used chromebooks to research about this topic and I am so proud of how many new facts the children have found; I can't wait to read their reports next week! In Maths, we have started our fractions learning and it has been a pleasure to watch the children soar in this topic so far, they have shown such resilience and determination throughout. In Science, we are learning about circuits. We started our learning by building a bright idea and drawing a diagram using scientific symbols - the children were so engaged with this and are excited to continue their learning throughout the half term.
This half term we have started Swimming on a Friday. I was so proud of the children for how they represented Carlton, the bus driver told us they were a credit to the school! I cannot wait to see Monarch progress further during Spring 2 and I am looking forward to making more memories with the children.