Welcome to Squirrels’ Class Page

Welcome to Spring Term in Squirrels. We are a small, welcoming class of Year 3s who work together in the mornings. In the afternoons, we join with the Otters (Year 4) for our wider curriculum lessons.

This term we have already been investigating the impact of Romans in Britain, and are about to start our geography unit, in which we will be thinking about where to build a city and considering what makes a good location for a settlement. We are linking this to our leaning in English through ‘Hilda and the Midnight Giant’. In Squirrels, we love to settle down together with some comfy cushions and a shared book; our current class novel is ‘Nim’s Island’ by Wendy Orr. In maths this term, we are busy learning formal methods of addition, subtraction and multiplication.

For full details of our learning this term, please see our Termly Overview.

This term we are looking forward to our own literature festival, with authors coming in to talk to us, and to World Book Day, when we will be dressing up as characters from our favourite books. We are also looking forward to getting the ipads out in our computing lessons, and to carrying on our cornet lessons.

Last term we enjoyed trips to the Hindu Community Centre in Cheltenham and to Chedworth Roman Villa. We loved our cookery day, when we all got to learn about Roman food and we made Caesar Salad and a chicken casserole. We also enjoyed Ben’s visit from the Longborough Festival Opera, helping to prepare us for a performance at the opera house later in the year.