Hello and welcome to the Year 3 webpage!

Staff
 

3 Spruce Mrs McDade (Year Group Leader and Teacher) Miss Furniss, Miss Murphy and Mrs Maltby

3 Yew Mrs Myers (Teacher) Miss Dobson

Reading

Reading at home is very important. Please encourage your child to read aloud on an evening and discuss what they have read. You can support your child by asking them questions about what they have read, help them to make predictions and explore what a character is thinking and feeling. 

Please add a brief note (in the reading record) detailing the date and the page they have reached. 

Homework

Spellings are set each Friday and should be practised at home for the test the following week.

It is really important that pupils work on their multiplication facts (times tables) at home. When working with your child, please remember that each fact must be learnt – For example:  3x5=15, 4x5=20.

We will be continuing to practise our recall of these times table facts in our Maths lessons. It would be really helpful if your child could practise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables at home to support their learning in class. 

Please note: Each child has an account on ‘Times Tables Rockstars’ (login details can be found in the front of your child’s reading diary) that they can access at home - there is also a 'Times tables Rockstars' app that you can download to your phone or tablet https://www.ttrockstars.com. 

PE

Tuesday (Outdoor), Thursday (indoor)

Please note: Children should come to school in their PE kits on PE days and will spend all day in these. Children must take their earrings out for PE lessons.

Summer 1 - Ancient Greece 

Curriculum

English

In English, we will be reading a variety or Greek myths. We will be writing our own narratives based on a Greek myth. We will also write a setting description about life in Ancient Greece and create persuasive letters to Zeus. 

Maths

 In Maths, we will continue to revise our knowledge and understanding of the four operations and practise our rapid recall of times tables facts. We be learning about adding and subtracting fractions and finding a fraction of an amount. We will also be learning about how to add and subtract money and how to work out the correct amount of change. 

Science

In Science, we will be learning about animals including humans. We will learn about the importance of nutrition and how humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Humanities

In History, we will be learning about Ancient Greece. We will find out who the Ancient Greeks were, where they lived and what life was like for them at the time. We will also consider the impact that the Ancient Greeks have had upon us and how they are still remembered today.

Art / Design technology

In DT, we will be planning and making a Greek salad. We will be practising different skills for making food safely and then planning and making our own Greek salad to eat and evaluate.

PE

In indoor PE, we will be learning about dance. We will practise and put together a performance using facial expressions and props. In outdoor PE, we will be learning how to work as part of a team and use clear communication to develop our orienteering skills.

Computing

In Computing, we will be looking at databases, specifically branching databases. We will analyse what a branching database is, explore different branching databases and then create one of our own.

Other -

In music, we will re-cap what we know about musical notation and compositions. We will listen to some English folk songs, and we will practise making different rhythmic patterns using the recorder.  We will also create our own compositions and perform our own songs.

In Spanish, we will re-visit our knowledge of counting to 10 and build upon this to count to 20. We will also learn about basic greetings, days of the week and months of the year.

In Religious Education, we will be learning about the idea of leadership and the characteristics that leaders have. We will learn about important leaders for different faiths, why they are inspirational and how they teach key elements of their faith through stories.

In PSHE, we will learn about how to work cooperatively with others. We will be focusing on understanding that people often need to play / work together to reach a shared outcome and to share their opinions on things that matter to them. We will also be learning to understand and respect the differences and similarities between people, including the biological differences between boys and girls.

Spelling (from the Emile Scheme)

Maths Curriculum