In Year 3, our teacher is Jacqui who is assisted by Lindsay Temple and Hayley Walker. You can find out more about our staff on our Meet The Staff page.
Useful documents for Year 3
Year 3 Long Term Overview 2023 2024
What we are learning in Year 3 this half term…
Our topic is: Stone Age to Iron Age– History based topic
Literacy
In Literacy, this half term, we will be reading ‘The Stolen Spear. This is a fun adventure book based in the Stone Age with themes of strength, bravery and self-belief. We will be basing our writing around this story this term using it to write descriptions, diary entries and letters.
Maths
We will continue to follow White Rose Maths. This term we will cover multiplication and division.
In Science our topic this term is:
Animals including humans during which we will be looking at a healthy diet in both humans and animals, the skeleton and the muscles and the importance of fitness.
Foundation subjects
In History, we will be looking at Stone Age to Iron Age looking at Britain’s first settlers and builders, and landmarks around the country that give us clues about the early settlers way of life.
In Computing, we will be looking at creating media using animation as well as the importance of Online relationships in E-safety.
In DT, we will be designing and making a small cushion.
In PSHE, we will looking at how to celebrate difference in our relationships with family and friends as well as the wider world.
In French, we will be learning about classroom objects.
How you can help your child…
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support you child in the following:
Reading- Reading any texts with your child will help improve their fluency and knowledge. We will send home a reading book assessed at their current reading level. We will send home a book for pleasure that can be enjoyed with your child.
Number skills- Basic number skills are a great way to help improve your child’s confidence in maths. We would ask that you support them to play Numbots/ Times Table Rockstars as this will really help their basic skills. We have relaunched our use of Numbots and Times Table Rockstars. If your child is still unable to log on please let us know so we can help you. Could you also use any spare time, i.e when you are walking or on car journey’s, to chant times tables and ask your child questions related to times tables. We have now worked on the 2’s, 5’s and 10 times tables. These skills will support them in all areas of numeracy.
Spellings- Each week the children will learn a new spelling rule. You could support your child with understanding these rules by helping them to practice them. You could do the look/cover/ write/ check method or even play games such as letter scramble ( mix all the letters up and then put in the correct order) or hangman. Please use the spelling sheets on Tapestry each week to practice the relevant ones linked to the week’s work. Please don’t worry about working on all of the spellings every week, pick a few and focus on those. We will revisit them again later in the year.
Keeping homework fun helps to engage your child and not add any pressure to home life.
If there is anything we can support you with, please let us know.
Thanks
Jacqui, Lindsay and Hayley.
Other useful information:
P.E. (Gymnastics) every Wednesday and Hockey every Thursday. Please ensure your child has their P.E kit in school all week.
Class trips/ enrichment experiences:
We will visit the Hindu Temple and Baltic Museum in November. Please see additional information on Tapestry.