Class Teacher: Mrs H Mitchell
Class Teacher: Miss G Whyte
Learning support: Mrs S Ford (Mon – Wed) & Mrs S Spencer (Thurs & Fri) – Robins
Mrs G Williams – Wrens
PE Days: Monday & Friday
Our PE days will be on a Monday and Friday for the Autumn term – our Monday session will be indoors and our Friday session will be outdoors. Children should wear full PE kit (a white t-shirt or their house colour t-shirt, black leggings / skirt / shorts / jogging bottoms, white socks and plimsolls or trainers – football kits and other tracksuits are not permitted).
Library Day: Friday
The children will be given an opportunity to visit our school library once a week, during which time they will be able to select two reading books of their choice.
We will read daily in class and there will be opportunities for independent and paired reading throughout the week.
We suggest that the children bring one library book home, to share with you, and keep one at school for.
School Reading Book (Bug Club or Spot Book): Daily
The children will be able to change their school reading book once a week. We recommend re-reading books if they are finished before this time.
Longer texts, that require more than a week, can be kept until they need to be exchanged.
Outside Achievements: Tuesday & Friday
Previously known as ‘show and tell’, we love hearing about what the children get up to outside of school, whether it is a sporting achievement, a competition, Brownies, Cubs or an exciting excursion. We invite the children to share their news with the class on a Monday afternoon.
Celebration Assembly: Friday
As a school, we host our celebration assemblies on a Friday afternoon. Our ‘star of the week’ will receive a certificate in this assembly and their parents/adults are invited to join us. We also award two children with a ‘great job’ certification every day – these certificates are to recognise and celebrate those children who have shown great enjoyment, perseverance and success – in line with our school values.
Science (Physics) – Light!
Geography – The United Kingdom
Computing – Creating Media using Publisher
RE (Christianity) – Angels and the Holy Trinity
PSHE – Health & Wellbeing
DT – Picture Frames
Music – Singing & Christmas Celebration
PE – Dance (Indoor) and Netball (Outdoor) – Our PE days will remain on a Monday and Friday.
Spanish – Numbers
Writing
This half term, Year 3 will explore ‘Where We Live and Dream’, discovering a world of dreams, aspirations, different perspectives and magical possibilities. Our learning will be inspired by the short animation Dream Giver and the fictional text Imaginary Fred, alongside The BFG, The Tear Thief and Lost Happy Endings in our Whole Class Reading sessions.
In writing, we will revisit and secure our understanding of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, possessive apostrophes and how to use speech effectively. In reading, we will continue to develop our key comprehension skills, focusing on vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, summarising and sequencing.
Through these imaginative texts, we hope to inspire curiosity, creativity and a love of reading and writing as we explore the magic of stories and the power of dreams.
Whole Class Reading
This half term, we will be focusing on fluency and reading
stamina. The children have access to new text exerts daily, where the key
skills of retrieval, inference, prediction, summarise, and sequencing are built
upon.
There will also be a range of guided texts during group
reading where children can share their ideas and practise reading in small
groups. We will also continue to develop the children’s reading stamina by
ensuring that there is free-reading time each day and encouraging the children
to read widely and often both in and outside of school.
This half term, we will be focusing on addition and subtraction before moving onto multiplication and division. We will be covering the following learning objectives in each of these units:
Addition & Subtraction
Pupils develop their ability to:
Multiplication & Division
Pupils learn to:
Please be aware these are end of year 2 expectations.
Please find the PDF attached – we would love for the children to share their Home Learning projects on the last week of term.
These tasks are not compulsory however we always encourage the children to share their learning and topics at home and look forward to seeing what they come up with!
We strongly encourage times table practise on TT rockstars but please do ask your child’s class teacher if you’d like some physical worksheets.
We strongly encourage reading with your child daily whether this be your child reading or you reading to them.
For more information about the Year 3 curriculum please click here.