Hello and welcome to the Year 3 webpage!

Staff
 

3 Spruce Mrs McDade (Year Group Leader and Teacher) Miss Murphy and Ms Howe

3 Yew Mrs Myers (Teacher) Miss Dobson and Miss Best

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

Wednesday (Indoor), Thursday (Outdoor)

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.

Autumn 1 - Greece 

Curriculum

English

In English, we will be reading The Stone Age boy and Stig of the Dump. We will be writing our own narrative based on the Stone Age boy. We will also be writing a newspaper report about spotting Stig of the Dump in the woodland area of our school playground!

Maths

In Maths, we will be revising our knowledge and understanding of the four operations and practise our rapid recall of times tables facts. We will start by learning about place value and starting to look at addition and subtraction towards the end of the half term.   

Science

In Science, we will be learning about light. We will learn about different light sources and the concept of darkness. We will also learn about how shadows are created and how they can change in size as well as learning about sun safety.

Humanities

In History, we will be learning about the Stone Age. We will look at the chronology of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. We will look at what day to day life was like during this time period and compare how life changed throughout the three different time periods.

As part of Black History Month, we will also be studying Ruby Bridges.

Art / Design technology

In Art, we will be creating our own still life drawing of a plant. We will consider the question – Why do artists create still life drawings? We will then plan how we can make our own still life drawings using plants and practise how to create tone and texture. We will finish the unit off by creating our own life drawing final piece.

PE

In indoor PE, we will be learning about gymnastics, we will be practising different gymnastics balances and put these into a combined sequence. In outdoor PE, we will be learning how to play tag rugby where we will practise the different rules and techniques of the sport.

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 looking at coding. We will be learning how to use timers, use the repeat command, code, test and debug with the end goal of designing and making an interactive scene.

Other -

In music, we will be looking at the song ‘Three Little Birds’. The children will be introduced to written notation and will develop their improvisation skills. The children will also have the opportunity to find out about the history of Reggae music   

In Spanish, we will be learning the numbers 0 – 20. We will then move onto learning Spanish greetings and giving simple instructions in Spanish.

In Religious Education, we will be learning about how Jews remember God’s covenant with Abraham & Moses. We will learn what it is like to be Jewish and the covenant with God, exploring beliefs about God; about how ideas of God are expressed in stories, celebration, ritual and action; about Moses as a key leader in the Jewish tradition; about the Torah as sacred text; about the great festivals of Pesach, and the weekly celebration of Shabbat, illustrating how Jewish people try to live. 

In PSHE, we will start of by refreshing our knowledge of the ‘Whitecote Way’. We will then move into learning about the importance of permission seeking and giving in relationships with friends, peers and adults need to speak about low level permission seeking e.g. borrowing things, taking photos, holding hands etc. We will finish the half term by looking at resolving conflict and where to get help.

Spelling (from the Emile Scheme)

Weeks 1 and 2 spelling tests will be a recap of Year 2 common exception words and pre assessment of Year 3 common exception words. The rest of the half-term will follow the Emile spelling scheme. (See below)

 

Maths Curriculum