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.
Summer Term 2
Our focus text in English this term is ‘The cloud Tea Monekys’ by Mal Peet.
Our English this term will link with our Culture theme focusing on India. We will explore stories from India and use these to inspire our own writing. We will also look at using persuasive skills to produce a leaflet to encourage the reader to buy tea from India.
Alongside this we will continue to focus on our sentence level work, working on writing different sentence types and using words for effect, as well as learning spelling rules and patterns.
We will continue to focus on our sentence level work, focussing on writing different sentence types and using words for effect. We will look at various spelling rules and patterns including vowel sounds, prefixes and suffixes.
We will continue to encourage the children to join their letters together and use a consistent letter size.
Maths we will be focusing on mass and capacity before moving on to money, time and shape.
We will continue to develop the skills of our whole school approach of using ‘APE’ (Answer, Prove, Explain) as part of problem solving and reasoning.
We also solve word problems using these measures. We will continue to work on our multiplication and division facts for the 3s, 4s and 8s.
In Science, pupils will consolidate their previous learning through a range of practical investigations that bring together the knowledge and skills they have developed throughout the year. This will include concepts from our topics on rocks and soils, as well as nutrition and movement.
Wider Curriculum Work
Our Geography topic this term is India. We will use primary and secondary sources to find out about everyday life in India and its human and physical features.
Our French will be learning how to talk about our friends and family, as well as our pets. We will also look at spelling our names.
In PE will be focussing on orienteering and rounders.
Our learning in RE will explore Judaism and the key question 'the promises Jews make with God?’
In Music lessons we will be looking at patterns in music and explore a variety of ways that music is composed .
Please have a look at the Knowledge Organisers in the Curriculum Documents tab above to find out more about our learning this term.