Stretham Community Primary School
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Wren Class
Week of 10th March 2025
Thanks for a brilliant week Wren Class! We have had a special week with having Performing Arts Week!
This week, we...
- Did really well learning about equivalent fractions in Maths.
- Carried on practicing our songs for our 3 / 4 Production.
- Writing our own story of 'King of the Sky' (story from another culture).
Rock Kidz visited us on Monday 10th March. They turned our school hall into our own concert venue and allowed us to experience the amazing world of live music. The KS2 workshop that followed was energetic and engaging. We ended with a celebration assembly to really share the message of 'You are Awesome So Be Awesome' (YASBA) to reinforce the positive mental health and self-esteem message of the whole day.
Our visit on Tuesday 11th March from Rock Steady shared rock/ pop band instruments in a whole school assembly before leading KS2 in a workshop to create our own band - with 2 vocalists, a lead guitar, a bass guitar, 2 keyboard players and a drummer.
Jack Stinton from JSDC leading a whole school dance assembly on Thursday 13th March with follow up workshops for each class on Thursday and Friday. We appreciated Jack's enthusiasm for dance which taught us that dance is for everyone.
Finally, on Friday 14th March, we were treated to a Classical Music Assembly, where a String Quartet to played for us and shared their incredible instruments, knowledge and skill within this genre of music.
A huge thank you to all our visitors for enriching our week with performing arts.
W.B 07.03.25
We have really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day today. For a Maths activity, we read the book 'Pozzettino' and designed our own creatures using multi-link cubes before drawing them and writing what fraction each colour represented in our animals. We also enjoyed sitting in the relaxation zone to read our class text. We also enjoyed our World Book Day activity learning about 'Unfairies' by Huw Aaron before designing our own 'Unfairies' for our own graphic novel!
What a wonderful day!
W.b 24.02.25
Hello all,
We hope you enjoyed the first week of Spring term 2. We have really enjoyed ourselves:
- Learning about the food groups which constitute our diet in Science,
- Starting our new text 'King of the Sky' in English and comparing life in Wales and in Italy and considering why the two characters have formed a friendship,
- Mastering the the use of denominator and numerator in Maths to help us understand unit and non-unit fractions,
- Using TTRS to speed our recall of multiplication facts,
- Discussing our trust team in PSHE and which adults we would identify in our own,
- Drawing animals in the style of prehistoric artwork in Art,
- Looking at types of farming in Geography,
and learning about our LKS2 Production and starting to learn the songs!
What a good week, well done everyone.
Don't forget next Friday will be World Book Day for us and we look forward to celebrating books then and throughout the week!
Week Beginning 10.02.25
What a lovely end to the half term; enjoying feel good Friday! In Wrens we worked on our DT models; the castles we had excitedly been ready to create! We spent the morning constructing and working really hard on them.
We have completed our fables in English, ended our unit on Rocks in Science by conducting an experiment to see how permeable different soils were, explored problems involving perimeter and played games in Maths in Maths, compared two settlements in Geography and learnt about the Hindu God Shiva in R and W.
We have been reading the Highland Falcon with enthusiasm; wondering who stole the jewellery on the train!
We thoroughly enjoyed meeting with you all on parent's evening - thank you for joining us.
Have a lovely half term,
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week beg. 3rd Feb 2025
Well done Wrens for another busy and productive week. This week -
- In Science, we have been learning all about the different types of soil and that it is made out of water, minerals, air and organic matter. We also learnt that 'Pedalogists' study soil and that there are 4 distinct types of soil (silt soil, chalky soil, sandy soil and clay-based soil).
- In P.E. we continued with our gymnastic sequences for our indoor lesson.
- In Maths, we continued with our measuring skills and we also loved our special NSPCC, dress up number day on Friday where we undertook lots of enjoyable number activities (photos to follow!).
- In Reading, we enjoyed Storytelling week where we had good discussions about some of our favourite stories. Furthermore, it was a pleasure to have some Year 6 children pop into Wren Class to share some of their own written 'Fable' Stories, which we have studying in our English lesson! Thanks Year 6, you were very inspiring!
- In Religion and World Views, we continued learning about Hinduism especially learning about where the famous 'Ganesh' story originates from.
- In Geography, we learnt how London is made up of different Boroughs and how it has to 'adapt' over the years because of the millions of people living there, e.g. more cycle and bus lanes and increased building of flats for people to live in!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week beg. 27.01.24
Another busy week in Wren Class for the final week of January!
- In Maths, we have been continuing with our measuring skills. We looked at the differences between millimetres, centimetres and metres and then converted different measurements. Using metre sticks and small cm rulers has been great fun to practically measure objects around our classroom.
- Furthermore, we have been practising our Times Tables Skills on TTRS (Times tables rockstars) which we are gaining confidence with.
- In P.E. our gymnastics skills are building with balances, shapes and various jumps with us now beginning to sequence them altogether.
- In Science, we have continued to enjoy our Rocks topic, with us all being enthusiastic and sharing our knowledge together.
- In English, we have started learning some 'Fables', looking at the morals of simple stories. Identifying the various features of 'Fables' has enabled us to create our class toolkit so we can start writing our own 'Fables' in the next few weeks.
- In Reading, we are beginning to suspect some of our characters on the 'Highland Falcon Train' of who the thief could be...!
- In Reading, we also joined an online, live interview with the author of our class novel, M G Leonard, which was inspiring because she loves adventures and she has written many, many books!
See you in February! Mrs Rayment & Mrs O'Briain
Week Beginning 20.01.25
We have really enjoyed our learning this week especially see the fruits of our labour in English! We wrote our version of a diary entry for Tuffy using all the English skills that we have our learnt in our lessons. In Maths we did some problem solving and now are looking at measuring length with cm, m and mm. Millimetres required care when reading our rulers! It has been great testing the properties of rocks in Science by seeing how hard they are and whether or not they float.
We have also been doing a lot of discussion about growth mindset and wrote positive affirmations to display in the classroom. In PSHE, we have been looking at different types of family and DT involved constructing castles from a net after we mastered 3D shapes first. In Geography we looked at the differences between villages and towns.
The children were very excited to participate in film night this evening! Have a great weekend.
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week 13.01.25
It was lovely to have some warmer weather after last week's cold snap!
We have really enjoyed having copies of our class text 'The Highland Falcon Thief' to read and are devouring the story whilst familiarising ourselves with the many characters. We have also continued with our work on Recounts in English and have been writing sentences with adverbials and emotions to describe what has been happening with Tuffy the cat!
Maths has involved used our knowledge of our times tables facts to multiply and divide large numbers, looking for related facts.
It was lovely to have so many rocks to share in our Science and we enjoyed learning how the different types form.
Stereotypes was the focus of our PSHE and we explored 3D shapes in our DT, identifying shapes used in real castles before constructing our own with 3D shapes and working our how to form a 3D shape from a net.
In RE we explored traditions in the Hindu culture and in History looked at how the cities grew in the Indus Valley.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week Beginning 05.01.24
Happy New Year to you! We hope you enjoyed your Christmas break.
It has been straight back into the hard work in Wren Class. We have started our new class text 'The Highland Falcon' and in English are beginning a unit on 'Recounts' and are using 'The Diary of a Killer Cat' as our stimulus.
In Maths we are continuing to work on Multiplication and Division, using related facts to help us. We did start the term with a problem-solving task and looked at how many possibilities we could find relating to our winter clothing. The examples show the different ways the children represented their working.
In Science, our unit on Rocks began by exploring rocks and their properties - we touched and looked at different examples, curious about what we would see and where they may have come from.
In PSHE, our work about 'Diversity' began with us looking at what helps to form our identity.
DT, saw us learning about types of castle and how they are constructed to suit their purpose.
In PE, we are doing gymnastics and enjoyed our first chance to use the mats in KS2!
Have a good week, keep warm!
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week Beginning 08.12.24
The penultimate week of term has been a busy one!
We were very excited to make games with magnets in our Science choosing a fishing rod game or a race track to show how metals attract certain materials.
In English we have started planning our explanation text about our 'robo animal!' The children have chose robo-turtles, flamingos and even dinosaurs as their creation and will be doing an independent write next week about how their animal works.
Multiplication facts have been the focus in Maths, we have been learning the 2, 4 and 8 times tables because we spotted that when we double each number, it helps us to find related times tables facts. The children are also very good at identifying fact families for each multiple we looked at.
In Art, we have been creating a final piece of work in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Our Geography work saw us discussing what we need to pack in a bag for a journey in the mountains.
We also enjoyed working with Mrs Spencer on our Art project, participating in the Santa dash and watching the KS1 Christmas play! Phew! What a busy week.
Enjoy your weekend Wren Class.
Week beg.02.12.24
Into December we go...! We started our book (& a little chocolate!) advent calendar in Wren Class, which was very exciting.
A busy week, including -
- In Maths, continuing to work hard at our times tables, especially working on our 3s.
- In PSHE, lots of discussions about what choices we make at school.
- In English, carrying on with our explanation texts on Robot Dogs.
- In Guided Reading, we looked at 'The Sound Collector' poem by Roger McGough.
- In P.E., various games outside (and warm!) with different P.E. equipment.
- In Religion and Worldviews looking at the Hindu Symbols, e.g. the lotus flower.
- We are working really hard at our spellings - doing lots of re-capping and also looking at new spelling rules, especially the 'ly' suffix.
- We also enjoyed decorating our classroom door with beautiful, cut snowflakes!
Looking forward to the next few weeks leading up to Christmas!
Week Beginning 25.11.24
It's hard to believe that this is our last week in November! It was great fun beginning to find the Christmas spirit as Wren Class enjoyed making Christmas decorations with many of you and loved seeing them on display around school. It also exciting having the Book Fair in school - don't forget to have a look at the lovely books on display.
This week Wren Class:
- Started working on Multiplication and Division in Maths and looked at arrays and equal groupings. We also played 'Shut the Box' with dice - perhaps the children could teach you how to play?
- Continued exploring an explanation text in English and started writing their own about a robot dog.
- Carried out an experiment in Science to see which type of magnet was the strongest.
- Used observational drawing in Art to sketch flowers and leaves.
- Discussed why people live on mountains in Geography.
- Explored why rules are important and how they can be helpful in PSHE.
- Continued work on the spelling rule using 'ally' and completed their dictation using their spelling words for homework in our Spelling.
Another busy week!
Well done Wren Class - keep up the hard work.
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week beg. 18th November
Busy, chilly but productive week in Wrens!
- In P.E. we did our 3rd dance lessons where we sequenced all of our movements from the last few dance lessons, carefully listening to the beat of 8.
- In Geography, we learnt about mountain ranges, focusing upon the Himalayas where Mount Everest is, the tallest mountain in the world!
- In Science, we had a super fun investigation lesson learning all about magnets. Much excitement was had by exploring which materials are magnetic!
- In English, we completed our dragon descriptions and we edited them using our pink pens - which we are getting more confident with.
- In Reading, we continued to enjoy our funny class novel - 'An alien in the jam factory' where we created questions as to what to ask the alien if we ever met her! We also read a non-fiction text this week all about Isaac Newton, linking it in with our Science the last few weeks on forces.
Thanks for a great week Wrens, have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week beginning 11.11.24
Wow! What a week!
We showed our respect on Monday through a 2 minute silence to mark Rememberance after considering what this mean to us.
This week was 'Kindness Week' associated too with a national Anti-bullying week. We spent a lot of time being kind to ourselves through mindful moments in our day including mindful colouring and discussions about what it means to show empathy to our peers. Alongside this, we discussed all of the types of bullying, identifying that bullying is persistant behaviour, which we hope not to see in our school.
- Maths - we continue to work on column addition and subtraction. However, we problem solved on Friday for Children in Need, finding different ways of totalling a given amount of coins.
- English, we looked at Michael Rosen Poems for Michael Rosen day. We have also been planning for a descriptive piece of writing about a dragon to show off what we have learnt in our writing this term. We also completed our first dictation to test the spellings we sent home for homework.
- We went outside to explore 'Friction' with some toy cars before looking at what happens when we put cars on ramps with different surfaces in our Science.
- In Geography, we began learning about mountains.
- In Art, we are using our shading skills to help us draw what we can see; we loved the examples we saw in homework books too!
Have a restful weekend,
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Autumn Timetable
Week beg. 4th November 2024
We hope you all had a wonderful half-term. Wren Class have settled back in positively with lots of lovely activities completed!
This week -
- In English, we looked at different types of poems & we wrote a Calligram (shape poem), Kennings (2 word phrases poem) and a Cinquain (syllable, diamond poem) all about Bonfire Night and fireworks. Well done Wren class, you worked super hard on these and they look brilliant!
- In Maths, we are continuing with our adding and subtracting skills, especially looking at using a column when crossing the tens.
- In Geography (Rivers), History (Egyptians) and R & W (Rama and Sita), we re-capped our vocabulary and learning from last term to see what we have remembered! We also completed our Diwali lamps this week.
- In Science, we have started learning about forces after our wonderful learning about light last term.
- In P.E this term, we are learning dance skills, starting with movements to machinery - linking in with our Wild Robot book that we have enjoyed finishing this week.
- In Reading, it's been really lovely to share which books you have been enjoying reading the last few weeks.
Well done Wren Class, we are proud of your efforts this week, settling back in so well.
Week Beginning 21.10.24
It was such a delight to talk to parents and carers at Parent's Evening this week. Thank you for joining us! We are so proud of how Wrens have settled into Year 3.
Learning this week has involved:
- adding and subtracting using a formal method in maths
- publishing our best version of 'Tuesday in our English
- making our own books about 'Light' in Science to show what we have learnt
- programming crumbles to light a pumpkin in Science
- learning how 'Diwali' is celebrated in RE
- exploring hieroglyphs in History
- discussing 'Wants, Rights and Needs' in PSHE.
The children have also been working hard on running for fun in our 'Run for Fun' week. We completed 342 laps as a class this afternoon! Well done Wren Class.
Have restful break.
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week Beginning 14.10.24
We have been really proud of how the children have worked this week. We have been planning a story based on our book 'Tuesday'. You can see some lovely examples of the writing the children did at the start of the week which will support the telling of the story.
We continue to work on addition and subtraction in maths and a problem solving activity called 'Totality' was enjoyed by all! We are still finding it tricky when we have to cross tens or hundreds but with more practice we will definitely master it soon!
Computing was thoroughly enjoyable this week with the children working with 'Crumbles' to do some modelling.
We are also really proud of our posters sharing how to stay safe in the sun!
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Week beginning 07.10.24
What an exciting start to the week! We were joined by a paralympic athlete and it was so very exciting! The children really enjoyed the activities he did with him and he was an inspiration to us all!
Wren Class learning
We continue to work on adding in maths and worked hard showing how to add 100s, 10s and 1s without bridging and used a place value table to help us to see how the digits change.
In Religion and World views, the children have been learning about Rama and Sita.
In PSHE, our unit on 'Working Together' has been thought provoking and today we designed our dream playgrounds before accepting feedback from others in a constructive conversation.
In Science we are nearing the end of our unit on 'Light' and looked at mirror images and how they are created. We were amazed when we realised that we wave at our reflection with our right hand but the mirror image waves back with it's left! So, we practised being mirror images of each other before using our mirror to read a reflected message!
Another busy week - well done all!
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Hello All,
Wren Class have enjoyed another busy week. What a mixture of weather too! The heavy rain on Monday meant we did some yoga in the classroom instead of being able to go outside. In Maths, we have been finishing work on place value and were looking for connections between counting in 5's and 50's. We continue to enjoy our text 'Tuesday' and worked on constructing speech for the illustrations. When the sun appeared on Thursday, we managed to get outside and make some shadows before completing an experiment looking at how we can change the size of a shadow with a torch. This afternoon, the children were pleased to finally begin making their Egyptian inspired collars for DT!
Well done for your hard work this week!
Enjoy the weekend.
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
W.b 30.09.24
Autumn Term Topic Overview
Week Beginning 23.09.24
It was really lovely to attend the Harvest Assembly and see so many parents, carers and friends in attendance. The children loved learning a poem to share with you and use their mosaic skills to make their pumpkin wreath.
Wren Class have really enjoyed their new text in English. 'Tuesday' is a wordless picture book which stimulated their curiosity and allowed them to construct question sentences about what they were seeing. In maths, Wrens continued to work on place value and find starting their lessons with a game is a great way of encouraging them to apply the maths skills that they have been learning. Science continues to excite the children as they explore light using the terms 'transparent, translucent and opaque' correctly.
We are also getting into the routine of changing our reading books, which are at our reading level, on a Monday and Friday, On a Wednesday, we change library books when we choose a book to read for pleasure. Thank you too for continuing to support the children with their homework - we are thrilled to hear how enthusiastic the children are to complete it! Keep it up!
Thank you!
Mrs O'Briain and Mrs Rayment
Week Beginning 16.09.24
Hello all,
First of all, we have to say a HUGE well done to EVERYONE for completing their first piece of homework! We were SO impressed - keep it up.
It has been another successful week in Wren Class. We are particularly proud of the progress we are making with our applique skills in DT. From our basic running stitch, we can now attach pieces together and this is preparing us for our final product - an Egyptian collar. We are still using practical equipment to help us secure our understanding of place value and are using these skills to solve problems whether playing a game against our partner or finding our way through a number maze. In PE, we have been working on our fitness skills using skipping ropes. You can see in our PSHE, we are working on becoming a successful group by thinking about what we need to do to solve a problem and work together to do it! This also made us consider that a class reward would be good to have to help celebrate when we are successful as a group. We decided on collecting marbles in a jar for when we work well as Wrens.
Reading books have come home today, do return them on a Monday and Friday and don't forget library books are due on a Wednesday.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain.
Week Beginning: 09.09.24
We have really enjoyed getting to know Wren Class and already have been so busy with our learning and familiarising ourselves with rules, routines and expectations for Year 3.
In our English, we have been exploring 'Here we are' and have added lots to our working wall. In Maths, we looked at place value particularly representing and partitioning numbers to 1000. Science began with a lesson exploring light using torches and seeing how it travels in straight lines. We are most proud of the progress we have made with our running stitch, beginning with using boards to practice before progressing to using felt!
Already, completed homework tasks are being handed in too! Well done Year 3!
Reading logs and banded books will come home next week.
Thank you for your support, have a good week!
Mrs Rayment and Mrs O'Briain
Summer Term Curriculum Overview
Summer Term Curriculum Overview
Summer Term Homework Menu
WB Monday 20th May, 2024.
To all the wonderful parents, carers and pupils of Wren Class - thank you so much for being so amazing! I have absolutely loved teaching in Year 3 this year and will never forget all your kindness and support. You are truly phenomenal and I look forward to hearing all your news from Mrs Hawes and Miss Gordon.
Have a wonderful half-term holiday and enjoy the rest of the year!
Mrs Tait
Peg treat using the Year R outdoor area!
WB Monday 13th May, 2024.
It was a VERY busy week in school! We were all so proud of the Year 6 pupils for sitting their SATS with such great attitudes. They were excellent role models to the younger pupils in relation to trying your best!
Wren Class, this week, worked very hard on:
- Completing their Maths unit on 'Money' and starting a new unit on 'Statistics'
- Making posters for the Stretham Feast float linked to Mrs Hawes' class novel 'Fantastic Mr Fox'
- Further investigating structures in DT
- Starting their new unit in History: Ancient Greece
- Teamwork skills in OAA in PE
- Learning scientific names for bones in the human skeleton
- Recording their learning from the unit on Agriculture in Geography
- Identifying word families, their root words, prefixes and suffixes in SPaG
It has been great this week to have Miss Gordon visit Wren Class; getting to know names, personalities and learning styles. We look forward to her popping in again next week and then officially starting after the May half-term break.
Have a wonderful weekend, Year 3. Have fun at the 'Colour Dash' and at all the 'Stretham Feast' activities 
PE
Make posters for the Feast float!
WB Monday 6th May, 2024.
It was a slightly shorter week due to bank holiday Monday but Wren Class still managed to pack in:
- Starting 'Money' in Maths, focusing on adding amounts (up to £10) and converting between pounds and pence
- Looking at even more suffixes which can be added to root words
- Using our spellings to practise joined handwriting
- Continuing 'Fantastic Mr Fox' and 'The House at Pooh Corner'
- Honing teamwork skills in order to complete OAA tasks in PE
- Learning about some very dramatic Grecian battles in History
- Investigating how to make toilet roll and kitchen roll tubes into strong structures
- Completing 'Agriculture' in Geography with a look at sheep farming (including shearing)
- Taking part in an exciting Art workshop to create headbands for the Ely Fest event in June
- Sorting drugs listed last week and discussing 'Medicines' in more detail
- Watching the story of 'Joseph' in R&W
Phew! What a lot of excellent learning
Money Problems in Maths
OAA in PE
Art workshop
WB Monday 29th April, 2024.
Summer Week 3 marked National Skipping Week! Year 3 thoroughly threw themselves into the event and felt an immense sense of pride and achievement in their improved skipping skills and resulting fitness levels.
Wren Class also took part in a drumming workshop and saw the importance of listening to those around them!
In DT, pupils took great care to cut nets of cylinders accurately to form columns (important in Grecian buildings).
In English, pupils wrote instructions for playing 'Poohsticks' - a game we hope you'll enjoy playing at some point in the near future!
Skipping Week
Drumming Workshop
DT Structures
WB Monday 22nd April, 2024.
A packed week with Year 3 pupils showing excellent stamina!
Lessons included:
- Focusing on Capacity in Maths and reading volumes of liquid in litres and millilitres
- Continuing our class novels: 'Fantastic Mr Fox' and 'The House at Pooh Corner'
- Looking at reading texts linked to 'Healthy eating'
- Taking part in Level 1 'Bikeability'
- Starting to think about structures found in Greece to inspire our DT models
- Continuing 'Persia and Greece' in History
- Looking at 'Arable Farming' in Geography
- Reading food labels to consider nutritional values of food in Science
- Starting to learn some for the Ely Fest event at Ely Cathedral in June
- Watching the story of 'Isaac and Rebekah' in Religion & Worldviews
- Recapping and embedding 'Root Words' and how these can be changed by adding prefixes and suffixes
Please remember to:
- Submit weekly homework tasks on Seesaw by 9am on Wednesday each week
- Bring in your reading record each Wednesday to be checked
- Bring in library books to be swapped on Thursdays
- Prepare for you weekly spelling test each Friday
Bikeability
WB Monday 15th April, 2024.
Welcome to Summer Term! Please do have a look at the the Curriculum Overview to check out what will be taught over the coming weeks. You'll also see the new Homework Menu with tasks linked to our learning which can be posted on Seesaw or brought into school on Wednesdays along with Reading Records.
This week, we have continued some topics from Spring Term (as it was so short):
- Persia and Greece in History
- Nutrition in Science
- Agriculture in Geography
But also started some new topics:
- OAA (outdoor and adventurous activity) in PE
- Mass and Capacity in Maths
- Fantastic Mr Fox (Mrs Hawes' class novel on Mon-Wed)
- The House at Pooh Corner (Mrs Tait's class novel on Thu-Fri)
On Thursday 18th April, we had a special Religion and Worldviews visit from Miss Twitchett. She was so impressed to hear how Year 3 pupils were able to debate 'charity' and how respectful they were in sharing opinions on how we should treat others. We were also fortunate enough to sample lots of yummy treats linked to the Jewish festival 'Passover' - yum!
Mass and Capacity - Build it!
OAA - Focus on teamwork and communication
Religion and Worldviews Workshop
WB Monday 25th March, 2024 - The Bee Musical!
WB Monday 18th March, 2024.
It has been a very busy and very topsy-turvy week! Well done Wren Class for just running with it and showing great flexibility! We have:
- Planned and draft-written our non-chronological reports for our Spring Term Writing Assessment
- Completed a PUMA Maths Assessment paper
- Had oodles of rehearsals for 'The Bee Musical' on the stage!!!
We are so very excited to show you the end product and hope you can join us to see the production on...
WEDNESDAY 27th MARCH at 2:15pm 
Using Number lines in Maths
WB Monday 11th March, 2024.
This week, Wren Class enjoyed taking part in time-related activities celebrating 'British Science Week'. These included:
- Speed-writing names
- Estimating the length of a minute
- Creating a pendulum clock that would swing for exactly 30 seconds
- Making a water clock using an empty 2L bottle
It was great to come together as a whole school during Thursday assembly to showcase the best pendulum clocks. Well done to Ladybird Class for winning!
Thank you to Mrs Dunham for organising all the events including the gadget shops
Exploring Time
Pendulum Clocks
Water Clocks
WB Monday 4th March, 2024.
What a great week of activities linked to World Book Day!
On Monday, pupils enjoyed a special visit from 'The Animal Experience' including an assembly and an up-close encounter with a meerkat as well as joining in with a live lesson with the poet Michael Rosen.
On Tuesday, pupils thought about what makes an eye-catching book cover and explored how to write an effective blurb to hook a reader before applying these skills in the school-wide book cover competition.
On Thursday, pupils enjoyed dressing up in animal-themed outfits or comfy clothes and also researched facts about Wrens in order to draft write non-chronological reports in pairs.
On Friday, pupils published our non-chronological reports to create a class book which Mrs Everest will be displaying for all the school to see!
It was a very successful week with lots of reading opportunities for all 
Animal Experience
World Book Day outfits
WB Monday 26th February, 2024.
Welcome to Spring 2! It's a really short term (just 4 weeks and 4 days) so we will start units of work this half term but continue some of them into Summer 1 (which is longer). Units started this week include:
- Fractions in Maths
- Persia and Greece in History
- Craft in Art
- Dodgeball in PE
- Agriculture in Geography
- Judaism (specifically Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) in Religion and Worldviews
- Nutrition, the Skeleton and Muscles in Science
We are also continuing our class novels in English (The Boy Who Grew Dragons & Charlotte's Web) as well as ticking over with daily Handwriting (using our spelling words) and Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar.
Reading records and homework continue to be checked on WEDNESDAYS.
Pupils continue to have the opportunity to change their library books on THURSDAYS.
Spellings continue to be tested on FRIDAYS.
Next week we celebrate 'World Book Day'. Mrs Everest sent out a letter this week with all the information about the activities we hope to run in school to encourage and inspire reading. On Thursday 7th March, pupils will have the opportunity to come into school dressed is costumes or casual/comfy clothes. The theme this year is 'Animals'. Contributions of £1 for wearing non-school uniform will be greatly received and used for enhancing our reading resources in school.
Hopefully, this week, you will also have seen that Year 3 and Year 4 will be putting on a Production called 'The Bee Musical'. The performance to parents will be on WEDNESDAY 27th MARCH at 2:15pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
Dodgeball
WB Monday 12th February, 2024.
What a great final week of Spring 1! Lots of finishing off blocks of work including:
- Drawing all our DT food tech skills together to make tarts! Pupils were incredibly creative with their vegetable combinations and showed great willingness to try new foods - well done Wren Class!
- Performing pentatonic melodies on glockenspiels in front of Year 3 and Year 4 pupils.
- Completing an R&W end of block assessment in pairs to show off understanding of Hinduism.
It was also great to have Mr Sweeney visit again for a Maths lesson and to 'Draw, Build, Write and Connect' in order to show our understanding of Multiplication and Division.
Have a wonderful half-term break, Year 3, with lots of rest, fun and fresh air!
Making vegetable tarts
Glockenspiel performances
R&W end-of-block assessment
'Build, Draw, Write, Connect' diagrams in Maths
WB Monday 5th February, 2024.
That's Week 5 of Spring Term complete! This week included:
- Food tasting in DT
- Considering 'Wants and Needs' in PSHE
- Using partitioning to help multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number in Maths
- Making a composter in Science, complete with live worms!
Next week will be our second round of parents' evenings for the year. Please don't forget to book a slot for either Tuesday 13th or Thursday 15th February as we have lots of lovely things to report!
Food tasting
Needs and Wants
Multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number
Making compost
WB Monday 29th January, 2024.
A packed week in Year 3 this week!
Highlights included:
- Using clay to create archaeological finds in History
- Chopping and peeling in DT
- Draft writing non-chronological reports about Spencer Morris
- A Maths lesson taught by Mr Sweeney (who allowed us to write on tables with whiteboard pens!)
- Finding out how to make a composter (we're now in search for worms for next week!)
- Practising pentatonic melodies on glockenspiels in Music
Using clay to create archaeological finds
Peeling and Chopping in DT
Playing pentatonic melodies on glockenspiels in Music
WB Monday 22nd January, 2024.
A very productive week in Wren Class with pupils really growing in confidence in measuring perimeter in Maths and feeling more familiar with our new texts in English. The longer days are already noticeable and it's been great to enjoy the warmer and dryer weather at playtimes.
Highlights this week included:
- Being Archaeologists in History
- Perfecting balances in PE
- Looking at our completed, mounted and displayed artwork in the school gallery
- Continuing to find out about fossils in Science
Don't forget to bring back in your clip for Film Night by Wednesday 31st January - it should be great fun!
Being Archaeologists in History
Balancing in PE
Completed artwork in the school gallery
Fossils in Science
WB Monday 15th January, 2024.
A fantastic, packed second week of Spring Term, Wren Class.
It was great, this week, to enjoy some free computing time as a treat for completing the peg plate. Well done for working so well as a class in Autumn Term, resulting in the 24 pegs being turned around!
In Maths, as well as continuing with 'Measure', fine motor and problem-solving skills were needed to solve some tricky Tangram puzzles (see photos below).
On Wednesday afternoon, we enjoyed a visit from Spencer Morris who we followed in Autumn Term as he travelled to Antarctica aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough. It was great to hear about his expedition in person and to try out some knot tying skills.
The Art gallery is now complete! Please do pop into the main school hall after school on Wednesday 24th January to see the children's completed work - it looks amazing!
Peg treat!
Tangram puzzles
Visit from Spencer Morris
WB Monday 8th January, 2024.
Happy New Year! Welcome back to Year 3.
Well done for being amazingly flexible with the unexpected school closure on Monday. You settled back in so smoothly on Tuesday and have shown a great 'can do attitude' in your learning.
On Tuesday, Mr Sweeney introduced the whole school to our new school rules. At Stretham Community Primary School we aspire to:
- Be Ready
- Be Respectful
- Be Safe
Pupils have responded very positively to these new statements and are already rising to these aspirations.
We have started lots of new units of work this week which you can read about in the Topic Web attached above.
New reading books have also been sent home along with library books which can be brought in on THURSDAYS each week to be changed.
Artwork for Babylon Gallery
Sorting Rocks in Science
WB Monday 11th December, 2023.
The final full week of Autumn Term included:
- Completing our Maths unit - Multiplication and Division A
- Preparing to present a Christmas story at the church service next week
- Assessing our SPaG understanding for Autumn Term
- Completing our History unit 'Cradles of Civilisation', our Geography unit 'Mountains' and our R&W unit 'More Hindu Stories'
- Looking at 'Calming and Relaxing' techniques in PSHE to help regulate emotions
- Carrying out a forces experiment to see which surface creates the most friction and completing an end-of-unit assessment in Science
- Using cameras in Computing to practise our stop animation skills
It was also an absolute delight to be the first audience for the KS1 nativity which brought back fond memories from last year.
Looking forward to a final 3 days of Autumn term next week including our rehearsal and service at St James' Church and the Christmas Lunch!
WB Monday 4th December, 2023.
It's beginning to look (and feel) at lot like Christmas! This week's highlights included:
- Completing PIRA (Reading) and PUMA (Maths) assessments
- Using our 'inner voice' in PSHE to build ourselves up
- Attending the Panto 'Mother Goose' in Cambridge
- Wearing our Christmas jumpers and taking part in the Santa Dash
- Joining up with Year 4 (Robin Class) for Maths and English on Friday
Next week is our final FULL week of school this term - it's going to be a good one 
Mathematical Imaginings
Using our inner voices in PSHE
Partner work with Robin Class
Santa Dash!
WB Monday 27th November, 2023.
What an amazing week it has been!
Tuesday Christmas craft afternoon was absolutely wonderful! Great to see family groups together and so many parents/carers in school. The creations made have brought so much colour and cheer to our school corridors and helped us welcome in the Christmas season.
Pupils worked their socks off in English; planning, writing and editing their first piece of assessed writing in Year 3. It was great to see so many focusing on showing off their joined handwriting and their understanding of fronted adverbials.
And what a triumph on Friday afternoon at our class assembly You all did yourselves so proud and really showed just how much learning has taken place this term. The song at the end was beautiful and it has been lovely to see so many of you focusing on finding people who build you up!
Have a wonderful weekend, Wren Class. Enjoy your advent calendars and decorating your homes!
Completed Wire Fish
Dividing by 3 in Maths
WB Monday 20th November, 2023.
This week Wren Class have:
- Learned about 'Cradles of Civilisation' in History
- Continued 'Working with wire' to create fish in Art/DT
- Considered how to 'Get Support' for their emotions in PSHE
- Perfected their 'Country & Western' line dance in PE
- Started looking at 'Forces' in Science
- Discovered what it is like to live in the Andes in Geography
- Used body percussion to create layers in Music
As well as:
- Completing writing a fable and a non-chronological report in English
- Considering the punctuation needed when combining a main clause and subordinate clause in SPaG
- Using and applying 2, 5 and 10 times-table knowledge in a variety of problems
We have also been writing and assigning parts for our class assembly which will take place at 2:30pm next Friday, the 1st December. We look forward to seeing you there
Making arrays in Maths
Working with wire to create fish in Art/DT
WB Monday 13th November, 2023.
This week was Anti-bullying week/Kindness week. Pupils took part in a number of activities including;
- Looking at what we mean by bullying and how we can stop it from happening
- Being 'Secret Angels' to one another
- Learning a song 'Find your People' which focuses on finding people who build you up and love you for who you are
Another packed week in Wren Class, including:
- The Epic of Gilgamesh in History
- Part 1 of Working with Wire in Art
- Increased co-ordination in our Country and Western dance in PE
- Carrying out a paperclip experiment with magnets in Science
- Finding out what Vishnu's symbols mean in Religion & Worldviews
- Considering why people would choose to live on a mountain in Geography
- Listening to an orchestral composition in order to create a story in Music
- Continuing with Aesop's Fables and non-chronological reports in English
- Looking at subordinating conjunctions using ISAWAWABUB in SPaG
- Sitting our second spelling test of the half term - well done to those who have been practising
- Finishing up our really long block on Addition and Subtraction in Maths
- Improving x-table scores in our weekly test
Mrs Hawes also introduced us to Spencer (a friend of her son) who will soon be boarding the Sir David Attenborough ship as it journeys to Antarctica. We look forward to tracking his journey and reading his messages over the coming weeks and months.
It has been good to support 'Children in Need' together this week; thinking of others less fortunate than ourselves.
Date for the diary: Friday 1st December at 2:30pm will be Wren Class Assembly in the school hall.
WB Monday 6th November, 2023.
The week has absolutely flown by! Wren Class have:
- Looked at the results of mummifying a tomato (a strong stomach was required!)
- Produced observational drawings of drinks' cans in Art
- Improved on their timing in the Country and Western Dance in PE
- Carried out Scientific investigations to test the strength of different types of magnets
- Continued learning the Hindu story of Manu and Matsya in R&W
- Moved on to Mountain Ranges in Geography
As well as:
- Learning about main clauses and co-ordinating conjunctions in SPaG
- Continuing to practise joined handwriting using the first 100 high-frequency words
- Completing the fable 'The Tortoise and the Hare'
- Looking at features of non-chronological reports
- Consolidating column subtraction involving multiple exchanges
In Computing this week, Wren Class had their first experience of exploring microcomputers called 'Crumbles'. The children had to programme the crumbbs to follow a pattern of lights. You can see from the photos below that they really enjoyed this lesson
It was also good to observe Remembrance Day together on Friday 10th Nov at a special morning assembly; to take time to reflect on those who lost their lives to preserve the freedoms we enjoy in our country today.
The weather is definitely cooling down now. Just a reminder that we keep windows open throughout the year to help with ventilation. Please be sure to wear enough layers to school with this in mind.
Enjoy the weekend 
WB Monday 30th October, 2023.
What a great start to Autumn 2! With a new half term, come new topics. This week, Wren Class have started:
- Cradles of Civilisation in History
- Formal elements of art in Art
- My Emotions in PSHE
- Country and Western dance in PE
- Forces and Magnets in Science
- More Hindu Stories in Religion & Worldviews
- Mountains in Geography
- Composition in response to a stimulus in Music
As well as:
- Continuing our Addition and Subtraction block in Maths
- Starting a new unit in English - Fables
- Growing in confidence with Fronted Adverbials in SPaG
- Editing spellings and up-levelling using adjectives
We also took part in 'Friendship Run Week' which had to be postponed before half term due to the weather - what excellent stamina and teamwork you displayed.
A new Homework Menu for Autumn 2 was provided on Friday 3rd November along with the first set of spellings to be learnt at home ahead of a test on 10.11.23. Pupils know how to use the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheet so hopefully this will be quite familiar when practising.
Hope you all keep safe this weekend
Shape Hunt in Art
Country and Western Dance in PE
Adding two 3-digit numbers
Friendship walk/run
Magnets in Science
WB Monday 16th October, 2023.
What a fantastic final week of Autumn 1, Wren Class.
You completed:
- The Ancient Egyptians in History
- Textiles in Art & DT
- Beginning and Belonging in PSHE
- Light in Science
- Hindu Stories (Rama and Sita) in R & W
- Rivers in Geography
- Viking notation in Music
As well as starting to look at the column method for addition of 3-digit numbers in Maths and writing some amazing Cinquains in English linked to the book Flat Stanley.
And, you did all this with limited outdoor playtimes due to the torrential rain - you superstars!
You are all in need of a well-deserved, half-term break! Have fun
Completed Egyptian Collars
Completed Sewing Samplers
Fitness Skills in PE
Writing Cinquains
WB Monday 9th October, 2023.
In the penultimate week of Autumn 1, Wren Class have:
- Enjoyed taking part in the Hula Hooping Challenge
- Persevered with adding 1s and 10s to 3-digit numbers, including bridging into the next column
- Written a note of disapproval and an apology letter as a reply
- Looked at the shocking results of our UV light experiment
Well done for bringing in wellies now that the weather is on the turn. It's worth bringing a raincoat into school each day so you're prepared for sporadic rain!
Adding and subtracting 1s and 10s
Hula hooping
UV light experiment results
WB Monday 2nd October, 2023.
That's Week 5 complete, Wren Class. How wonderful it was to welcome our new head teacher, Mr Sweeney.
He has been so impressed to see your attitudes to learning when he's popped into class - well done!
This week, highlights have included:
- Mummifying a tomato to help our understanding of how the Ancient Egyptians preserved life
- Completing our Christmas card designs - look out for the ordering instructions in the coming weeks
- Having our final lesson of the season in the pool - thank you Mrs Marsh for all your maintenance work
- Testing our shadow puppets and throwing compliments to peers who made particularly effective puppets
- Finding out the ending to the Hindu story of Rama and Sita
Great fun was also had by all who stayed for the film night - thank you PSA!
This week, you should have received details about the upcoming parents' evenings on Tuesday 17th and Thursday 19th October. Please be sure to book your slot so we can let you know how your child is settling into Year 3.
Mummifying a tomato
Completing Christmas card designs
Final swimming lesson of the season
Video message from Mr Sweeney.MOV
WB Monday 25th September, 2023.
Week 4 has whizzed by with pupils enjoying another fantastic trip - this time to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to look at Ancient Egyptian artefacts and sketch detailed drawings.
The week also included carrying out a very successful water cycle experiment in Geography. Many pupils remembered the words to the song we learnt last week to help with the technical vocabulary: evaporation, condensation and precipitation. If you'd like to listen to it at home, use the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts
Now we're entering October, and feeling more settling in our new year group, please try to get into good habits regarding submitting homework on Seesaw and completing reading records. Aim to complete reading records at least 4 times a week ready to be checked every Wednesday.
Fitzwilliam Museum Trip
Water Cycle Experiment
WB Monday 18th September, 2023.
It's been an exciting and productive week in Wren Class. Highlights include:
- A trip to Denny Abbey to find out about agriculture (past and present)
- Setting up a Science experiment to test the effects of UV radiation
- Producing our first long write in English: a Travel Log for Flat Stanley
We've also been preparing for our Harvest Assembly which takes place in the school hall on Monday 25th September at 9:30am - we look forward to seeing you there!
Denny Abbey Trip
WB Monday 11th September, 2023.
Well done, Wren Class, for getting to grips with all the new systems in Year 3. It was fantastic to have all 24 reading records handed in on Wednesday for the weekly check and to see how grown up you all are with regards filling in the rows yourselves - keep up this excellent work!
What a delight to elect our 2 new school councillors. So many of you bravely stood for election and all showed good sportsmanship when the result was announced. Congratulations to Courtnie and Robert for being the successful candidates!
This week, we've had a big focus on the Zones of Regulation; thinking about the green, yellow, blue and red zones and how we can help ourselves get back to green by using ideas from our toolkit.
Creating paper and pasta Egyptian collars in Art
Acting out an Ancient Egyptian scene in History
WB Monday 4th September, 2023.
Welcome back to school, Wren Class! It's great to see you all Year 3 ready.
Well done for arriving each day ready to learn. We have been so impressed by how quickly you have adapted to new ways of doing things and all the new adults in class.
We've had a full-on week too with: Maths, English, Handwriting, Reading, Spelling, History, Science, Geography, Religion & Worldviews, Computing, French and PE (including swimming) - phew!
Hopefully, your homework book made it home safely on Friday with the homework menu and Seesaw and TTRS log-in details. We look forward to seeing all your wonderful work
Enjoy the weekend and keep cool!
Sky-writing using the joined font
