Welcome to Year 3!

Welcome to our Year 3 page!

  The team is Mrs Stols, Miss Yates, Mrs Cain, Miss Olive, Mrs Hussain & Mrs Saeed. 

Welcome to Year 3.

This half-term we will be learning about the Stone Age in History and Geography, rocks and stones in Science and in English we will write a description of a Stone Age Setting. The children will begin French lessons with Madame Barnes and they will design and make a toy in DT.

PE

PE  is on Wednesdays and Fridays. All children should come in PE kit – black or navy shorts and plain T- white t-shirt and trainers  on those days. Please make sure that your child is in socks not tights on PE days and that they are not wearing earrings. Hijabs will need to be short for safety.

English

We will be describing a Stone Age Setting and practising using lots of narrated sentences, while children who are ready will be writing with more independence. Handwriting is a big focus in Year 3 ready for when we  begin to join our letters later this year.  Children will read every day and there will be fluency and phonics groups for those who are  assessed as needing extra support.

Book Study

In book study we will learn comprehension skills, fluency skills and begin to ‘scan and skim’ to find answers to comprehension and inference questions. We will continue to build  the children’s vocabulary, learning words and applying them in different contexts. This year, we will also  begin to use dictionaries to support our understanding.

Here  are the texts we will use in English and Book  Study.

Maths

We begin maths with a recap of place value (hundreds, tens and ones) then move onto subtraction and addition. Each day we will practise times tables – it is a big year for times tables as there is a Statutory Times Tables Test in Year 4.

This year the children will need to know: their 4 and 8 times tables as well as 2, 3, 5, 10s. They need to be able to give answers to any times table question in any order. Please  practise  at home to give your child the best chance.

 Children will be given an  IXL and Times Tables Rockstars login each. Please let us know if your child has difficulty getting on. You will need to spell Phillimore Community Primary School correctly to log on to TT Rockstars correctly.

Recommended websites also include: timetables.co.uk , www.topmarks.co.uk (try hit the button for times tables practice) and whack a mole on ictgames.com. These are free and the games that we often play in class.

Homework

Spellings and maths homework will be handed out on Fridays.

Children need to complete this work. Spelling test for C7 is on Fridays and C8 on Thursdays. Homework club is at lunchtime and will be attended by children who do not complete their homework at home.

Please continue to read a little with your child each day. Books will be changed on  Friday and need to be returned to school on Friday in a bag – preferably a red school book bag  - but a plastic bag is acceptable too!

The documents below give more details of the curriculum this half-term. We look forward to working with you!