Wilsford Class

Dear Wilsford,

Thank you for embracing our new way of working at school. This week has definitely been challenging but I am so proud that you have kept on learning at home and at school if your parents are keyworkers.

Everyone has been working extremely hard, here are this weeks learners of the week:

During the next few weeks I will set you work and you will be able to see what you need to do, here, on the class webpage. If you are learning at home you will have the same work as the children who are learning in class. Some of the work I set you will be on Microsoft Teams and you will need your password to access this. It is stuck into the front of your homework book. You need to do your home learning so that when we are in class together we can all start learning together again. To do the work I set you you’ll need stationary and paper to work on. When you work on Microsoft Teams you will be able to send some of the work back to me by uploading it and I will be able to send you feedback electronically.

Simple to make, and can be served with warm butter, Nutella, or we eat them with Greek yoghurt, honey and fruit.😋 Preparation and cooking time 15 min.     

Ingredients:

4oz/100g self raising flour

1oz/25g caster sugar

1 egg

1/4 pint /150ml milk

Step 1: Grease the surface of a heavy frying pan lightly with butter.

Step 2: Take a large bowl and mix the flour and sugar together in the bowl.

Step 3: Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and crack the egg into it and pour in half of the milk and stir. 

Step 4: Then, slowly add the rest of the milk whilst stirring, to achieve a smooth batter. 

Step 5: Place the pan on the hob and heat on a medium heat. (This will depend on the thickness of your pan. You will need to watch the drop scones so they don’t brown to quickly). 

Step 6: Take a serving spoon and spoon the mixture on to the hot surface, making sure they are well spaced out. (You will need an adult to do this bit.) 

Step 7: When bubbles rise to the surface, turn the scones over and allow them to cook on the other side for 30 secs to a minute. 

Step 8: Remove from pan. 

Step 9: Add further spoonfuls to the pan and repeat until you have used all the batter.

Makes 12 – 18 drop scones depending how generous your spoonfuls are. 

Have a look at the new online library at the Oak National Academy. You can borrow one free book per week, as well as finding out about authors and illustrators. This weeks author is Dame Jacqueline Wilson and the book you can borrow is: The story of Tracey Beaker.

Follow this link to have a look: Virtual School Library | Oak Academy (thenational.academy)

During the Autumn Term Wilsford Class have grown a hyacinth bulb. 

It is now flowering and it smells beautiful – it is on the windowsill of the classroom

This year children will get a reading book each Friday. If you finish it quickly, reread it so you can get to know it really well, or enjoy a library book. We will only change books on a Thursday so that we can leave them in isolation over the weekend and put them back into circulation the next week.

Have a look at the Year 3 Reading Spine of books to enjoy in Year 3, here:

Year 3 Reading spine

We are learning about multiplication an division.

The times tables that we use in Year 3 are the 3 x table, the 4 x table and the 8 x table. These are the ones you need to know really well, I know you already know your 2, 5 and 10 x tables really well.

You can practise these using your TT Rockstarts account. (Your password is stuck into your Homework Book.) In class we have been playing Hit the Button on the Topmarks Maths website. This is another way to get really speedy with your Maths facts.

We are also counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s, 10s, 100s and 50s.

Many children in the class have now earned their Pen License – well done Wilsford Class for your beautiful hndwriting.

This term we will be reading The Pugs of the Frozen North and our writing will be inspired by that book.

We are learning about Animals including humans..

We will learn about nutrition, diet and similarities and differences between animals.

Out topic this term is Weather. We will measure rainfall, look at weather patterns in the UK and earn about extreme weathers around the world.

Our artwork will be inspired by Turners painting of clouds and skyscapes.

Our class book is Pugs of the Frozen North by Phillip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.

The school value that we are reflecting on this term is peace.