Welcome to the Year 3 Page
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- Miss Downing - Shark Class
- Mrs Longbourne - Polar Bear Class
- Mrs Peill - Panda Class
Useful Information
Homework - Homework will be given out on a Friday and due in on the following Wednesday. Homework in Year 3 is Spellings and times tables which are tested on a Thursday. All the children have been given a login sheet for Times Tables Rock Stars and Reading Eggs which they can use to practise times tables facts and reading skills at home. If you cannot find your login sheet, please contact your class teacher who can sort out a copy to keep at home.
Reading - Children are expected to read at least 5 times a week at home. Please record reading at home in reading records. Reading records will be checked daily, and a record kept of how many times children have read at home. Children earn housepoints for the number of times that they read and can also work towards a class treat as part of our current reading challenge.
PE - We have 2 PE lessons per week - 1 outdoor and 1 indoor. Please come into school wearing PE on your class PE day.
Sharks - Monday and Friday
Pandas - Wednesday and Thursday
Polar Bears - Thursday and Friday.
Below is information about our learning this term as well as links to useful websites to support learning at home.
Autumn Term 2 - Take One Scientist
Our focus for Autumn 2 has a scientific theme and our science learning will including looking at the work of Michael Faraday.
In English lessons, we will explore the story 'Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura during our fiction writing sequence. We will look at the structure of the story and box up the main ideas to help us understand the structure of the text. In grammar sessions, we will recap commas in a list, explore how to use adverbs for manner and then explore using inverted commas for speech before applying them to our own writing. We will invent our own characters and write an innovated story set in the Stone Age. We will then explore writing instructions in our non-fiction sequence, using 'How to Wash A Woolly Mammoth' by Michelle Robinson and Kate Hindley. We will explore the key features of writing a set of instructions and link it to the story by writing instructions for how to wash our own Stone Age creature. In spelling sessions, we will focus on using phonics and spelling patterns to spell familiar consonant sounds before exploring words from the Year 3/4 word list. We will also focus on ensuring that our handwriting is joined and legible.
In Maths, we are continuing our focus on Addition and Subtraction before moving onto look at Multiplication and Division. We will continue to focus on our 2x, 5x and 10s table to build our fluency in recalling facts from these multiplication tables.
In Science, we will be exploring Forces and Magnets. We will investigate which materials are magnetic, how magnets are used in real life as well as how they affect each other. We will also learn about forces and identify their effect on objects. Look at the knowledge organiser in the Curriculum Documents tab above for more information about our Science learning.
Wider Curriculum Work
Our History topic this term is Stone Age to Iron Age. We will explore how life changed during this time period.
Our French we will be developing our vocabulary by looking aspects including; colours, clothes and days of the week. In PE will be focussing on Hockey and Dance. In DT, we will be exploring different levers and linkages. We will make several mechanisms and choose one to include in our own Christmas cards. Our learning in RE will explore Islam and how Muslims show their submission and obedience to Allah. In Music lessons we will be focussing on traditional/folk music before moving on to explore symmetrical rhythms.
Please have a look at the Knowledge Organisers in the Curriculum Documents tab above to find out more about our learning this term.