Welcome to Year 3!

Welcome to our Year 3 page!

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

This second Autumn half-term, our global theme is Power and Governance/

Our big investigative question this half term is How do humans gain and lose power? Has anything changed?

In History and Geography, we will be studying the Bronze and Iron Ages. We will compare ways in which power is lost and won today with how Bronze Age people gained power as their civilisation evolved. We will use primary and secondary evidence to find out facts about how the Bronze age developed. We will explore how people migrated and the changes in land use. We will investigate the Beaker people and the settlement at Must.

In Art, we will be investigating cave paintings. We will develop our sketching techniques and look at how to make tints and shades. We will also learn how to scale up a picture.

In RE we will be learning about moral code. We will reflect on what is right and wrong and how this is shown through different religions.

Science

Science sees us learning about forces and magnets. We will review our learning of pushes and pulls from KS1 and then we will look at which materials are magnet. We will also learn about the forces of attraction and repelling. We will also take part in investigations.

Book Study

In Book Study, we will be reading we will be reading the Iron Man. We will develop our inference and deduction skills to ensure a good understanding of the text. We will continue our echo reading to improve our fluency. 

Maths

Maths will see us develop our understanding of addition and subtraction. We will also be extending our multiplication and division skills, engaging in reasoning and problem solving as well as our mastery and fluency skills.  It is incredibly important that the learn our 2, 3,4,5, 8 and 10 times tables during this year, for speed and accuracy.

English

We will be writing a non-chronological report about woolly mammoths. We will practise using capital letters, commas, apostrophes, conjunctions, prepositions noun phrases and paragraphs.

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.

Book bags

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.

Looking forward to a great first Autumn Half-Term with Year 3!

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!