Year 3
Welcome to Year 3’s class page
"Welcome to our classroom, where the fun never stops and the adventures never end."
Miss Hilton and Mr Ratcliffe
Welcome Back!
Myself & Mr Ratcliffe are so excited to welcome you all back to school after the May Half Term holiday. We hope you made some wonderful memories with your families and friends and had a well-deserved rest! We can’t wait to find out all about it!
The classroom is ready for your return, and we are so excited about starting the second half of the Summer Term together.
Our Creative Curriculum
Autumn Term – Stone Age to the Iron Age
Spring Term – Romans & Natural Disasters
Summer Term – The Potteries
What can you find on our class page?
Below we will share information about our curriculum and class routines and provide resources for children to use to enhance and further their learning at home.
We will also share photographs of our work throughout the year for you to see!
Our Class Saint – Saint Sebastian
During our transition sessions in July, Year 3 chose Saint Sebastian to be their class Saint. They chose him because he was a very brave man and spoke so beautifully about Jesus that others became Christians. We were excited about inviting parents to school on Tuesday 23rd January as we celebrated the feast day of Saint Sebastian with a special assembly. During this summer term we will be linking the life of Saint Sebastian to the Gospel Values of being eloquent and truthful. We have already learnt how St Sebastian spread the word of God, which was his truth, and we can follow his example.
He is the patron saint of athletes and soldiers. His Feast Day is 20th January.
Home Reading
Reading helps children with their knowledge, understanding and language. Children are taught to read in school. However, it is important that you encourage your child to read at home daily and listen to them read a couple of pages of their book every night. Our goal is to achieve 100% reading each week - remember the class with the highest reading % wins a treat!
Reading books will be changed every Tuesday and every week the children will also choose a library book to read over the weekend.
Click the video link below for tips on how to support your child by reading at home.
Parents, you must sign your child’s reading diaries, so your children can be rewarded with a stamp for their efforts.
Spellings
Each week children will receive spellings from the Year 3 National Curriculum to practice in class and at home.
New spellings will be stuck into your child’s reading diary every week on a Wednesday.
We are now using the Emile spelling app for spelling homework. All children have a login in which will be stuck into the front of their reading diary in September.
Please help your child to practise their spellings at home and over the weekend as their main test will be each Tuesday.
Homework
Homework is to be completed in the provided exercise book or fluency book each week. Children will be given 3 pieces of maths in their fluency books and 1 piece of grammar in their homework book. The grammar will be handed out every Wednesday (to be completed by the following Monday). Fluency books will go out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Children also log in to Times Table Rockstars and are expected to practise their times-tables weekly.
Click the link below to access our school login in page. Then log on using your child’s username & password, it will also be stuck in your child’s reading diary.
Please help your child to learn and practise their timetables. They will be tested every Monday during the Summer 2 Term to help them prepare for the Y4 timetable check next year.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/12628
What will we be learning this term?
Summer Term 2
R.E
Unit K: Pentecost
- Children will know the story of Pentecost and recognise the change the Holy Spirit brought to the lives of the Apostles.
- Understand that in the celebration of the Sacraments the Church celebrates the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Unit G: Prayer
- The children will know that Jesus valued his relationship with God his Father in prayer.
- They will understand that people can pray in different ways and will be able to talk about different styles of prayer and some symbols used to help people to pray.
Gospel Values
Learned & Wise
Children will be planning and delivering collective worship based around the Gospel Values each week.
Prayers
The children will be writing their own prayers in which they will have time to pray during quiet and peaceful moments using candles, a focal point and music.
English
Poetry – The Magic Box by Kit Wright
- Alliteration
- Using adjectives creatively.
- Writing our own versions of the Magic Box based upon the same structure.
Narrative - Book focus: Alice in Wonderland
- Character and setting descriptions.
- Writing an alternative ending for Alice in Wonderland.
Non-Fiction – Letters
- Formal/Informal language
- Writing letters in the role of Alice to different characters in the story.
Guided Reading: The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd
We will focus our reading skills around:
- The way characters relate to one another.
- Knowing which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.
- Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.
- Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.
- Recognise inverted commas.
- Explain the difference that the precise choice of adjectives and verbs make.
Maths
Angles and Properties of Shape
Children will be learning about:
- Turns and angles
- Right angles in shapes
- Comparing angles
- Measuring and drawing accurately
- Horizontal and vertical lines
- Parallel and Perpendicular lines
- Recognise, draw and describe 2D shapes
- Recognise and describe 3D shapes
- Making 3D shapes.
Statistics
Children will be learning how to;
- Interpret and draw pictograms
- Interpret bar charts
- Collect data and present the data in a bar chart.
- Read simple 2-way tables.
Science: Helping Plants to Grow
The children will be able to -
- Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.
- Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.
- Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.
- Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.
Click the link below to learn about plants and how they grow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy66fg8
Geography - The UK
Children will –
- Use maps, atlases, globes and digital mapping to locate countries, capitals, counties and cities.
- Know what a region and a county is
- Ask and answer geographical questions about the physical and human characteristics of places in the UK and use a range of resources to identify these.
- Compare and contrast two different counties identifying their human and physical features including hills, mountains, cities and rivers.
- Use the 8 points of the compass, four figure grid references, symbols and key to communicate knowledge of the UK and the wider world.
- Know key geographical features and land use patterns in the UK and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time.
DT: Savoury Scones
Children will –
- Evaluate an existing product
- Describe how food ingredients come together
- Explain how to improve a finished model
- Know how to be both hygienic and safe when using food
- Design a product and make sure that it looks attractive
- Follow a step-by-step plan, choosing the right equipment and materials
- Bring a creative element to the food product being designed
- Prove that a design meets a set criterion
French: Circle of Life
Children will be able to –
- Source new vocabulary from the dictionary and apply the appropriate indefinite article (un/une)
- Build a range of sentences from a model, selecting appropriate vocabulary.
- Recognise key vocabulary and structure clues, and use scientific understanding to solve a puzzle.
- Attempt to decode new sentences by using their context and sentence structure.
- Apply understanding of the sentence structure to generate new phrases.
Computing: We are opinion pollsters!
- Session 1 - To collect information
- Session 2 - To design and create content
- Session 3 - To present information
- Session 4 - To search for information on the web in different ways
- Session 5 - To use technology respectfully and responsibly
- Session 6 - To know different ways I can get help if I am concerned
PSHE: Relationships/Ten: Ten
Week 1 – Keeping myself safe online
Week 2 – Being a Global Citizen
Week 3 – Celebrating my web of relationships
Week 4 – TRANSITION WORK
Week 5 – A Community of Love (Ten: Ten)
Week 6 – What is the Church? (Ten: Ten)
Week 7 – How do I love others? (Ten: Ten)
Music:
Mrs Wallace will continue to teach our music lessons.
This half term we will continue to practice using knowledge of the dimensions of music to discuss the pieces that we listen to with a focus on music written for instruments. We will concentrate our singing on our concert piece. On the recorder we will continue to practice using ensemble playing skills and perfect some of the more difficult fingering transitions.
P. E:
Athletics & Striking and Fielding (Rounders)
P. E kits are needed on a Tuesday and Wednesday morning please.
Athletics (Tuesdays)
In Athletics, children will -
- Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
- Demonstrate effective sprinting techniques, displaying an understanding of key teaching points.
Striking & Fielding (Wednesdays)
In Striking and Fielding, children will -
- Throw and catch displaying control and accuracy, in isolation and varied environments.
- Demonstrate changes of direction, speed & level during performances or in competitive environments.
- Use the fundamentals of movement to employ simple tactics in varied environments.