Welcome to Year 3!

Welcome to our Year 3 page!

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

This term, our global theme is Human Rights. Our big question is What are refugee children’s experiences and how does this impact on their human rights?

In Geography we will be learning about the sea, the dangers posed by the sea, features of the sea, coastal erosion and world oceans and seas around Europe.

In DT, we will be learning about food miles and the impact on the environment, and about different climate zones where food is grown and imported. We will be visiting Lidl to look at where our food comes from and to gather food to make a fruity dish .

In RE we will be learning about scriptures of different religions and the place of religious texts in all the major world religions.

Science

Science sees us learning about the body including the key bones and muscles and their functions. We will be investigating skeletons and measuring bones to find out if their length impacts on our physical abilities.                                                          

Book Study

Home ground is our book which is about football playing refugees who come to the country for a new life. There is so much for football fans in the book, which was especially enjoyed by the boys last year, who needed to explain the off-side rule to Miss Yates!

Maths

Our key areas of learning are multiplication and division as well as reasoning related to these core concepts. We will continue to learn our multiplication and division facts – up to and including 2, 5, 3, 4, 10 and 8s. Children will need to continue to learn their tables at home as they are essential for progress in this half-term. Year 3 teachers will let parents know which tables to practise with their child at home.

English

We will be writing a narrative about a refugee child’s experience in a refugee camp, continuing to support some children through narrated sentences. Most children will be writing with more independence, aiming to create paragraphs where they create empathy through strong narrative voice and varied descriptive sentences. They will work on including adverbs, commas and apostrophes in their work. 

PE

PE is on Wednesdays and Fridays (the proper PE uniform of a plain white top and plain black bottoms is necessary, no earrings or tights please!). Children should come wearing their PE kit. This half-term we will focus on gymnastics and football skills.

Please make sure that you have a red book bag which should come to school every day. Books will be changed on Fridays. Book bags can be purchased for a small fee from the school office.

Homework

• Spelling (every Friday for a test on the following Friday). Assignments for practising also set on Spelling Shed.

• Times tables – 3s, 4s, 8s, 2s, 5s and 10s. Please learn these inside out so that your child can answer any times table question in any order. You will also need to learn division facts for the times tables too. There is a times tables test each Friday in class.

• Please use TT Rockstars and other online games (for example Top Marks, Hit the Button) to practise. Your child also has an IXL login to practise maths learnt in class.

•  If you cannot find any of your child’s logins, we are happy to give them to you again or support you to get onto the games at home.

Happy New Year and lets make next half-term a good one!

Mrs Cain, Miss Yates, Mrs Saeed and Miss Hussain

The Y3 Team

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!