Year 3
Our Team
Mrs Webb
Class Teacher
Miss Amos
Learning Support Assistant
Miss Hall
Learning Support Assistant
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
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 adverbials
- Adverbs of manner
- Similes and metaphors
- Co-ordinating and Subordinating conjunctions
- Contractions
- Prepositions
- Apostrophes for possession
- Inverted Commas for direct speech with reporting clauses
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.
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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.
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:- Timeline of events
- What hunter-gatherers ate during this time period
- How they hunted for their food
- Stone Age housing
- The changes of materials from Stone Age to Iron Age for weapons and housing
Over the spring term, Year 3's big question is 'Why does the world need rainforests?'.
We will be looking at: - Locating the countries within South and Central America
- The Amazon Rainforest
- The Ancient Mayan Civilisation
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Science
In Science within Autumn 1, 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. The students within Autumn 2 also looked at Health and Movement where they compared and grouped different types of foods based on their nutrition, studied and completed a food pyramid, researched about different animals and their diets, studied the human skeleton and understood about invertebrates and how they protect themselves without an internal skeleton. |
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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