Year 3 

Our Team

Welcome to our Year 3 class page

Here you will find all the information you need about our school day. 

Some important things to start us off this Year...

• Our PE day is Monday. Pupils are to come into school on Monday in their PE kits (plain black joggers or shorts, and a plain white T-shirt please). 
• All earrings need taking out or covering for the PE lesson. 
• Reading books and diaries need to be in school each day.
• Children are to read minimum three times per week at home.
• Children are required to read their reading book twice at home before changing for another.

Should you have any questions about anything, you can speak to myself on the door at the start and the end of each day or via the Class Dojo messenger.

Year 3 Ambassador

Meet our Year 3 ambassador - Savannah

Homework

Homework this year will be set to reinforce the learning that is being completed at school, and will be greatly beneficial for your child to complete at home.

Each week, children will bring home a weekly spelling list given out on Fridays, to then complete a spelling test the following Friday.

To help the development of their understanding at home, children should be encouraged to make use of the online programme “Times Table Rockstars”. Their passwords and usernames can be found in the back of their reading diaries. With this programme, children can earn coins and rewards to improve their avatar which will be displayed in the classroom. 

Finally, children will be sent home with a piece of Maths and English homework relating to the topic taught in the week which will be given out on Fridays to complete over the weekend. Once complete, the students will need to return their homework books by Wednesday latest to ensure it can be marked.

Curriculum Map

English

Throughout Autumn 1, the students will be reading the below books:

• The Enormous Crocodile
• Giraffe's can't dance
• Jim and the Beanstalk
• The Gorilla

We shall be introducing the children to a variety of different skills as they write retells, diary entries and character/setting descriptions. The skills we will be covering are as follows:

• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted time adverbials
• Adverbs of manner
• Similes
• Co-ordinating and Subordinating conjunctions
• Contractions
• Prepositions
• Apostrophes for possession

Each week, the children will complete a 'star write' on the Friday where the children are able to implicate the skills they have been taught that week to enhance their writing.

Maths

In maths, we follow a spiral curriculum that allow children to revisit and build on the foundations of each topic.

We encourage the use of a concrete (Build it), pictorial (Draw it) and abstract (Solve it) approach. This allows children to use manipulatives to deepen their understanding  before progressing onto pictorial representations and finishing with the skills to solve written calculations. Students will complete fluency questions to strengthen their knowledge and apply this to problem solving and reasoning style questions.

Throughout Autumn 1, the students will be covering the below topics:

• Place Value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and Division
• Money
• Time
  

Curriculum

In Curriculum, the students will learn about one central topic over the Autumn term that collates history and geography together. This enables the children to grasp a deeper understanding of each topic, to ensure they are provided with the knowledge to be able to answer the big question. 

This term, Year 3's big question is 'How did life change from the Stone Age to the Iron Age?'. The students will explore a range of skills to help them learn all about this, with the support of our mascots George the Geographer and Hilda the Historian.

Below is a list of the knowledge we have learnt so far:

• Timeline of events
• What hunter-gatherers ate during this time period
• How they hunted for their food
• Stone Age housing

Science

In Science, the Year 3 students have been learning all about rocks, fossils, and soils. They carried out exciting experiments to explore how rocks can be affected by permeability and erosion, discovering which types of rocks allow water to pass through and investigated different soil textures and appearances. Through this, the children learned how rocks and soils are formed over time and how fossils give us clues about the Earth’s history.

Useful Links

• Times Tables Rock Stars - https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school 
• Hit the Button - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 
• 3 Times Table song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0ZL2h8IRg&list=RDuV0ZL2h8IRg&start_radio=1 
• 4 Times Table song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBmSshEDVnQ&list=RDlBmSshEDVnQ&start_radio=1 
• 8 Times Table song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNsNcU5P1Wc&list=RDgNsNcU5P1Wc&start_radio=1