Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
I am so excited to welcome you to Year 3 for a fantastic year of learning, discovery, and fun! In Year 3, you'll explore new topics, develop your skills, and make wonderful memories with your friends. Our classroom is a place where curiosity and creativity thrive, and I can't wait to see you grow and shine. Get ready for an exciting adventure—your Year 3 journey starts here!
Miss Powell (Class Teacher)
Timetable
Each day, the children will focus on the core subjects in the morning - Writing, Guided Reading, Maths, Spelling and Times Tables. Foundation subjects are spread out throughout the week.
Important sessions to note:
Monday - Hymn Practice, Homework will be sent home
Tuesday - Class Prayer
Wednesday - Gospel Assembly, PE (Gymnastics with PE coach), Music (with Mrs Allen)
Thursday - Homework due in, Spelling and Arithmetic Tests, Class Prayer
Friday - Praise Assembly, PE (Problem Solving with Miss Powell)
Please remember to have your PE kit in school on your PE days. Children need to be in full school uniform, and will get changed at school, prior to their lesson.
Homework
Homework will be set and sent home on a Monday and should be returned by a Thursday. Children should spend 20 minutes on each piece of homework. Children do not need to complete all their homework in one go. Little and often throughout the week is key! English and Maths homework will be sent on a 3-week rotation.
English Homework - reading or writing
Maths Homework - consolidation of the week and / or timetables
Times Tables Rockstars and Spelling Frame - all children have personal logins. Children need to practise every day in preparation for their arithmetic and spelling tests on a Thursday.
Reading - children need to read every day and have their reading diary signed.
What will we learn during Spring 2?
Writing
In our literacy lessons, we will be exploring the following texts;
Flood by Alvaro F. Villa (Fiction)
The children will develop their writing skills through sentence-stacking lessons and build up to an independent writing task.
The independent writing tasks this half-term will be to retell the story in the first person.
Key websites to support with developing writing
Grammar, punctuation and spelling - KS2 English - BBC Bitesize
Reading
During our guided reading lessons this half-term, Year 3 will be reading and analysing the following:
Secrets of the Stoneage by Mick Manning (Non-fiction)
Our lessons will focus on reading fluency, understanding word meanings in context, summarising and answering retrieval questions. We will also focus on building independent inference skills to delve deeper into the different themes, characters and events in each of the texts.
Maths
In Maths, we will begin looking at Fractions and Mass and Capacity.
We continue to use White Rose Maths, firstly developing the children's fluency and building on the application of mathematical knowledge to deepen their understanding, master concepts and apply what they have learnt to a range of problem-solving and reasoning.
Videos to support key methods in maths
Multiplication and Division
Times Tables
The children have dedicated time to learn and practise their times tables to ensure they are increasing in accuracy and speed.
Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
RE - Desert to Garden
During this unit, the children will explore the key events during Jesus' journey to the cross. The children will focus on identifying the key people, how they reacted and what this meant for Jesus, and therefore what it means to us today.
Science - Plants
We will be learning about the parts of a flowering plant and the role they play. We will carry out a range of investigations to find out what plants need for successful, healthy growth and how water is transported.
We will be visiting Ness Gardens as part of our topic to explore different plants as well as learning about the process of pollution.
Geography - Settlements
Why do we live where we live?
We will be looking back on what we learnt during Autumn Term and the first people to settle next to the River Nile. We will look at how this has influenced where we settle today and the different types of place we can settle. We will also be exploring and comparing the population of settlements.
DT - Cooking and Nutrition
Physical Education - Problem-Solving and Invasion Games
Computing - Data and Information
Take a look at what we've been up to in Year 3!