Hello and welcome to the Year 3 webpage!

Staff
 

3 Spruce Mrs McDade (Year Group Leader and Teacher) Miss Furniss, Miss Murphy and Mrs Maltby

3 Yew Mrs Myers (Teacher) Miss Dobson

Reading

Reading at home is very important. Please encourage your child to read aloud on an evening and discuss what they have read. You can support your child by asking them questions about what they have read, help them to make predictions and explore what a character is thinking and feeling. 

Please add a brief note (in the reading record) detailing the date and the page they have reached. 

Homework

Spellings are set each Friday and should be practised at home for the test the following week.

It is really important that pupils work on their multiplication facts (times tables) at home. When working with your child, please remember that each fact must be learnt – For example:  3x5=15, 4x5=20.

We will be continuing to practise our recall of these times table facts in our Maths lessons. It would be really helpful if your child could practise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables at home to support their learning in class. 

Please note: Each child has an account on ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ (login details can be found in the front of your child’s reading diary) that they can access at home - there is also a 'Times tables Rockstars' app that you can download to your phone or tablet https://www.ttrockstars.com. 

PE

Tuesday (Outdoor), Thursday (indoor)

Please note: Children should come to school in their PE kits on PE days and will spend all day in these. Children must take their earrings out for PE lessons.

Summer 2 - Greece 

Curriculum

English

In English, we will be revising key grammar skills and writing our own newspaper reports. We will also write our own Science Fiction Monster stories based on the Iron Man.

Maths

In maths, we will be learning about time and be learning about angles and 3D shapes. We will continue to revise our knowledge and understanding of the four operations and practise our rapid recall of times tables facts.

Science

In science, we will be learning about animals including humans. We will learn about the importance of nutrition and how humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Humanities

In geography, we will be learning about Greece, and we will develop our understanding of the human and physical geography of a European city. We will learn what Greece is like now and use different types of maps to identify and label different features.

Art / Design technology

In DT we will be designing and making a traditional Greek tunic. We will use research and develop a design criteria to inform the design of innovative and functional products that are fit for purpose. We will also generate, develop and communicate our ideas through discussion and annotated sketches before creating our final product.

PE

In PE, we will be learning how play badminton, we will focus on identifying and describing the rules of badminton, serve to begin a game and explore forehand hitting. We will also be doing athletics, and we will practise different events such as sprinting, relay and javelin in readiness for sports day.

PE Kit

INDOOR: Plain white t-shirt and black shorts. 
OUTDOOR: Plain white t-shirt, plain black or grey tracksuit bottoms/ joggers, plain black or grey tracksuit top/ sweatshirt and trainers. No earrings for PE.

Computing

In computing, we will be learning how to present using Microsoft PowerPoint. We will learn how to make a presentation, add media, animations and timing. We will then create our own presentations and present these to the class.

Other -

In music, we will continue to learn to play the recorder. We will also learn about musical styles, with a focus on folk music, and we will try to recognise different sounds.

In Spanish, we will re-visit our knowledge of counting to 10 and build upon this to count to 20. We will also learn about basic greetings, days of the week and months of the year.

In Religious Education, we will be looking at the various ways that religions use different art forms to express their spirituality and beliefs.

In PSHE, we will continue to learn how to deal with put downs and learn about positive ways to deal with setbacks. We will also cover Relationship and Sex Education and the unit of work will focus on learning to understand the similarities and differences between people.

Spelling (from the Emile Scheme)

Maths Curriculum