Welcome to Year 3!!!

The Year 3 team:

3 Crystal  - Miss Higginbotham (You can call me Miss H) 

3 Lion -  Mrs Smith

with Mrs Bedford, Mrs Brookes, Miss Connolly and Mrs Greenfield

Important information:

Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Please remove earrings for these days or send in a small pot if children can take them out themselves. Plasters are not allowed instead of removal and we are not permitted to take them out for children.

Bring a water bottle with a sports top each day.

Reading diaries and reading books should be in school every day.

Reading book change day will be Thursday. (This may change.)

Spellings will be set weekly on Doodle (usually on a Friday). The children should aspire to remain in the green zone by working on the little but often principle. We expect them to complete maths and spelling weekly. Rewards will be given for staying in the green zone as well as a bonus award for 1000 stars. 

English

Creative writing will be out first focus this term, with wishing stories. We will be basing these around Tinga Tinga tales, and our model text is about how Elephant got his trunk. 

We are reading The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson and The Boy With Wings by Lenny Henry this term. Some of our book talk sessions will be based around these books. Children have their reading scheme book and may also borrow a book from the library. Book change for reading scheme books will usually be on a Thursday. We encourage the children to record their own reading in their Reading Diary - pages read and short reviews would be lovely to see. We also encourage adults to record in this diary when hearing children read.

Our Reading River is our reading rewards system in Year 3. Children will move along the river each day they read at home. Rewards will be given to those children whose reading diary is signed by an adult to acknowledge that this reading at home has taken place. Five signatures from the weekend to the Friday are what we are looking for.

We are progressing through our KS2 spelling scheme as well as picking up on any gaps in phonics.

Maths

We are continuing with our learning about Fractions this half term, building on our work from spring and finding fractions of amounts, as well as drawing links with dividing. Then we will visit money and then time, then we will be off to do some more work with shape, and we will finish with Statistics.

To support in maths, please work on number bonds and times tables, specifically 2,3,4,5,8 and 10. We are also challenging the children to learn their square numbers this year. Using money and telling the time are also valuable activities that can be practised at home. Pizza or cake cutting can easily reinforce our work on dividing equally and fractions.

Our RE question will be- 'What do different people believe about God?'. We will think about how Christians, Muslims and Jewish people describe God and will learn what humanists believe as well as the term atheist.

In PSHE, we will be thinking about our why we should eat well and look after our teeth.

In Science, we will be studying plants. We will find out the names of parts of plants and how they reproduce. Through DT, we aim to cook cheese twists and will be preparing curried tuna pitta breads as well, we will welcome an expert to tell us more about bridges. In ART we will be doing printing and clay-work.

Our geography topic this term asks "Is it better to holiday in the UK or abroad?" We will be looking at a range of holiday locations in the UK as well as throughout the world. We will be learning about capital cities and landmarks with both physical and human geography.

Our ICT lessons will be about desktop publishing and we will finish the term with some work on coding, looking at events and actions. 

In French, our unit is called Je peux (I am able to) and will talk about hobbies. Lessons for Music will include fostering enjoyement through improvisation in music.

In PE the children will be learning tennis skills, and basketball during the six weeks they are not at forest schools.