Year 3 - Autumn 2024

 

Welcome to our class page. The adults working in Year 3 are:

 

Mrs Foulkes, Mrs Londesborough, Ms Campion, Mrs Higham and Mrs Bowen

 

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English

We love reading and will be reading every day - choosing our own books, completing ‘repeated reading,’ sharing stories and reading in lots of our lessons. We will be continuing to use our phonics knowledge and learn to apply this to our spellings.

We will also continue to develop our comprehension skills, using our learning technique, VIPERS that teach the children to look at different styles of questions, such as prediction and retrieval.  Year three will be working on improving their handwriting as well as incorporating expanded noun phrases, conjuctions and adverbials within their writing.

 

 

As ever, we will have our dedicated library time each week. The more children can read at home, the more this will support the work we do in school. Why not become a member of The Meadows library services?

 

This half term our writing will be focussed on the book ‘Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura’ which will work alongside our History this term.  The writing will develop our understanding of writing in a diary and we will also complete a number of comprehension lessons building up our VIPER skills.

 

 

 

Maths

We will begin our day with morning maths. It is imperative that your child is punctual each day so as not to miss vital maths arithmetic skills. In our maths lessons, we are going to explore a range of strands such as place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. We will be improving our fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills throughout our lessons.

 

We will be working hard on our multiplication and division skills. Please can you ensure your child is practising their times tables via TTRS at least 3 times per week.

 

In year 3, we will be strengthening our arithmetic skills further and applying these to more reasoning based word problems.

 

 

Science

Our topic this half-term is Rocks and soil. The children will explore different rocks and their properties, collect and record data from tests, explore different rock families, recognise that soil comes from rocks, set up and carry out some investigations, find out how fossils are formed and draw conclusions from investigations.  The children will be presented with further opportunities to explore and handle different rocks and create their own fossils on our school trip to the Catalyst Museum.

 

History

We will be learning about the Stone Age.  The children will explore the ‘Stone Age’ and its different periods, use sources to identify distinctive features of the two time periods, compare change between the Neolithic period and earlier periods and learn about life in Neolithic times from investigating historical and archaeological sources.

 

Art and Design Technology

In art the children will continue to look at formal elements of art.  They will continue to increase their awareness and mastery of different kinds of art, craft and design by applying geometry to their drawing and will promote evaluation of their own and other's work.

 

Music

In Music, the children will be continuing to learn to play both the Djembe Drums and Ukulele.  They will experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.  The Children will then perform on both tuned and untuned instruments as part of a celebration assembly at the end of their lessons in December.

 

PE

In PE, the children will be working on Netball and Dance with Mr Glenn.  It is very important that the children come to school on Thursday’s and Friday’s dressed in their correct PE kits.  

 

R.E.

In R.E. we will looking at 'What it means to be a Hindu in Britain today!’ and how Hindus’ celebrate their religion within their homes and mandirs (temples). 

 

 

Homework

The children in Year 3 are expected to read at least 3 times per week at home as well as accessing Times Tables Rockstars online at least 3 times per week. Login details have been given to all children but please let us know if you need to be re-advised of this! 

When listening to your child read, we would kindly ask you to write a comment in your child's reading record. Once a routine has been established with the children, the children can swap their books as soon as they have finished.

 

We will collect all reading records in on a Tuesday in school. Please make sure your child has it in their bag every day just to help set a good routine.

 

 

Thanks for your support.

 

We are very excited about our new half term in school and are looking forward to sharing it with you. Please keep an eye on our school twitter page for more updates of our year 3 adventures and look out for letters coming home notifying you when the class’s performance will be!

 

Mrs Foulkes, Mrs Londesborough

 

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