Hello and welcome to the Year 3 webpage!

Staff
 

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

Wednesday (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.

Spring 2 - Egypt

Curriculum

English

We will be reading Alice and Wonderland, and we will use this text to inspire us to write our own adventure stories and to create own our chapter for the story. We will also focus on writing character descriptions for our own made-up characters. We will then write our own non-fiction texts and use headings and sub-headings to organise our ideas.

Maths

We will be continuing to revise our knowledge and understanding of the four operations and practise our rapid recall of times tables facts. We will also consolidate our work on measurement before moving on to learn all about fractions.  

Science

We will be learning about plants. We will identify and describe the functions of different parts of a plant, understand what plants need in order to grow and we will also carry out investigations to find out how water is transported in plants.

Humanities

We will be developing our locational and place knowledge as we learn all about Egypt. We will use a map to locate where this country is within the world, and we will identify examples of key physical and human characteristics.

Art / Design technology

We will finish our unit of work on Egyptian Hieroglyphs. We will use Styrofoam to practise mark making and we will experiment creating basic shapes. For our final piece of work, we will create our name using Hieroglyphs and we will print this on calico material. 

PE

In indoor PE, we will be doing gymnastics. We will identify the similarities and differences in sequences. We will develop our movement skills and learn how to create different shapes and balances. In outdoor PE, we will be learning about different throwing skills to play cricket.

Computing

We will be learning about touch typing. We will learn about touch typing and develop our understanding of the keyboard and how to type effectively.

Other -

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

In PSHE, we will be learning about drug, alcohol, and tobacco education. We will understand what is meant by the term drug and identify when drugs might be harmful. We will also learn about the effects and risks of smoking tobacco and what help is available for people.

Spelling (from the Emile Scheme)

Maths Curriculum