Year 3
Welcome to Year Three
We are the Year 3 classroom teachers; Mr Coulson (3C) and Miss Hick (3H), alongside us are Mrs Bennet and Miss Ward (Teaching assistants). We are incredibly excited to be teaching your children this year in the Year 3. We practice an open door policy in our classrooms, which means if parents have any questions or need anything from us, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can also catch either of us at the end of the day. We aim to respond to any queries as soon as we can. We are so looking forward to working with your children this year, and we cannot wait to see the fantastic achievements that they are going to make.
In year 3 this half term there will be lots of learning taking place. In English, our focus will be on narrative writing on the story of Tadeo Jones. We will use Pie Corbett’s ‘Talk for Writing’ to retell the story of the Ancient Egyptian explorer. Following the Egyptian theme, we will be learning about the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. We will be writing a a diary entry and focusing on using emotive language to retell the events from that special day. In Maths we will be focusing on place value with numbers up to 1000. For our wider curriculum topics yes you guessed it, we have been learning all about Ancient Egypt! We will also be learning about much more, including forces and magnets (Science) What do Christians believe about a good life? (RE). Spanish numbers to 10 and basic greetings (Spanish) Key throwing and catching in Dodgeball (PE) and finally making healthy choices (PSHE).
P.E Day
Year 3 PE lessons are on a Monday and Tuesday (3C) and Tuesday and Wednesday (3H) . Please make sure your child is wearing their school PE kit.
Reading app
This year we are going paperless! We will use a digital reading record app through go-read.co.uk to monitor reading records. Parents can download the BoomReader app to share information with school and no more worry about finding lost record books! We are in the final stage of setting up the accounts for your child. Please look out for more instructions in the coming week.
Times Tables Rockstars
Year 3 children all around the country will be tested on their times tables knowledge. Being confident with times tables helps children in many areas of maths curriculum such as short division, multiplication, word problems, and many more. In class, we support the learning of times tables regularly. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. We, therefore, strongly recommend you encourage your child to practice their times tables at home regularly or better still every night! All your hard work and theirs will make them a Times Tables Rock Star! You can find a copy of the times tables at the bottom of the class page.
Autumn 1
In Year 3 this half term there will be lots of learning taking place. In English, our focus will be on narrative writing on the story of Tadeo Jones. We will use Pie Corbett’s ‘Talk for Writing’ to retell the story of the Ancient Egyptian explorer. Following the Egyptian theme, we will be learning about the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. We will be writing a a diary entry and focusing on using emotive language to retell the events from that special day. In Maths we will be focusing on place value with numbers up to 1000. For our wider curriculum topics yes you guessed it, we have been learning all about Ancient Egypt!
We will also be learning about much more, including forces and magnets (Science) What do Christians believe about a good life? (RE). Spanish numbers to 10 and basic greetings (Spanish) Key throwing and catching in Dodgeball (PE) and finally making healthy choices (PSHE).
Autumn 2
In Year 3, we have some wonderful work planned for the upcoming half term! In our English topic, we have two amazing stories we are going to be learning about. Firstly, we are going to be looking at the discovery of Tutankhamun and using Pie Corbet’s talk for writing, we are going to write our very own diary entry as if we are the archaeologists who discovered it. The second English topic we are going to look at is the Polar Express (we have a fantastic trip booked on Thursday 8th December). This wonderful winter themed story will whisk us away to the North Pole, where again, we will be using Pie Corbet’s talk for writing to write our own magical winter themed story. In Maths, we are going to be focusing on deepening our understanding of multiplication and division facts, as well as looking at what different methods we can use to solve problems. In Science, our new topic is ‘Light and Dark’. We will be looking at different light sources and observing which objects light does/does not travel through.In our new Geography topic, we will be learning all about Egypt. We will delve into where it is located and its wonderful physical and human features – this will help us to create an ‘All About Egypt’ fact file.Finally, in RE, we will be focusing on how different religions express spirituality. The Year 3 team have been amazed by the effort of all the children in the first Autumn half term and look forward to another amazing half term before Christmas!
Spring 1
Spring One term has been very busy in both year 3 classes and all of the staff have been impressed with the children's hard work and effort during the half term. In maths, we looked at length, distance, mass and volume. The children learnt how to convert length using millimeters, centimeters and meters.
In English, we had a full half- term focusing on a fictional story of Clock Close by Ted Hughes. Firstly, we retold the story using 'Pie Corbett's Talk for Writing' method. We produced some outstanding pieces of writing about our own dystopian future, the children have really enjoyed this unit and have produced some outstanding independent pieces of writing.
In our reading lessons we have been looking at a book called 'Flat Stanley' by Jeff Brown. The children I have really enjoyed reading about Stanley's adventures in the world after accidentally becoming flat as a pancake.
In Science, we learnt all about animals including humans. We looked at different types of skeletons as well as why humans and animals need one.In RE we have looked at how we experience spirituality and how other religions experience spirituality, the children have created some amazing Muslim art patterns during this topic. For History Year 3 have been transported back to the Stone Age where have been delving deep into what life would have been like for our pre-historic ancestors! We even had the Art Room come into school to work with year 3 to create our own cave painting using merino wool! For P.E, we enjoyed handball for our game’s lessons and gymnastics for our indoor gymnastics lessons where we have made a dance routine in small groups using equipment such as benches and hoops. In computing we have been working with Mr Flynn who has taught us all about social media, we have even designed and created our own avatars! In PSHE year 3 have just fished our online safety unit looking at how we can stay safe online we even created our own anti-cyber posters!Finally, we enjoyed our Spanish lessons with Mrs. Outram learning about families and pets, as well as our music and singing lessons with Mrs. Leadbeater.
Well done for a fantastic half term year 3, enjoy you week off and we look forward to seeing you all back on the 20th of February.
Spring 2 promises to be a fun filled term for Year 3, In math's we will be learning all about money. English we will be starting the term off looking at features non-chronological reports followed by using Pie Corbet’s talk for writing. Guided reading we will be taking a look at the Hodgeheg wrote by a very famous author D. King Smith. In science we will be learning all about rocks and soils, we will be using our scientific brains to learn how different rocks are formed and where we might find these rocks in our everyday life. For history we will be traveling closer to the present (not too close) to the Bronze and Iron Ages with one of our main focuses being the mystery that is Stonehenge. In RE we will be discussing what makes a good leader? We will be looking at good leaders across religion and what makes a good leader. For gymnastic we are going to be looking at the Spanish dance the Flamenco, this will link perfectly with our Art topic where we are looking at the famous Spanish artist Antony Gaudi.All PE and homework days are staying the same for Spring 2.