Year 3 2023 - 2024

Welcome to Year 3 with Mrs Metcalfe, Mrs Cardy and Mrs Nichol

 

Reading bags should be brought into school daily with reading records, reading book, library book and spelling books (on Mondays to receive new spellings for the week).

Children are encouraged to regularly access Times table Rockstars to help support them with their knowledge of table facts, and build speed with their recall of these. To access this please click the icon above.

 

Homework is set every Friday and will be a maths 10 minute workout.

PE Kit is white t shirt, navy blue or black tracksuit bottoms (no logos) and school jumper or plain hoodie. PE days for Year 3 are: Monday and Wednesday (3N) and Monday and Thursday (3CM)

Autumn Term 

Literacy

Stone Age Boy: Amazon.co.uk: Kitamura, Satoshi, Kitamura, Satoshi:  0787721953272: Books

This term, we will be reading the story Stone Age Boy, linked to our History topic Stone Age. We will step back 15,000 years, as a modern boy enters a Stone Age village and learns a few prehistoric tricks of the trade.

One day a boy falls down a hole, and an amazing thing happens - when he wakes, he's in a camp full of people wearing animal skins!

We will also be looking at a range of non fiction texts including 'Why do Leaves Change Colour', 'All about light' and producing reports and explanation texts around these topics.

Maths

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This term, our focus is Place Value within 100, Addition and Subtraction and Multiplication and Division. We will have a Daily Maths times table focus (3 and 4 times table) and continue to use TTRS with children for their fast recall.

Other Subjects

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Science will include looking at plants, their growth over time and what they need to survive. We are so excited to start our Geography topic where we will be looking at our local area and comparing it to other localities. Aswell as this we will continue to enjoy Music, PE, French and our Fridays are themes every week!

 

Spring Term

Literacy

Escape from Pompeii : Balit, Christina: Amazon.co.uk: Books

This term, we will be reading the story 'Escape from Pompeii'. This fantastic text links with our up and coming Geography topic 'Active Planet!' The story is based on a boy named Tranio who tells the story of what happens when Mount Vesuvuis errups in the city of Pompeii. It is such an exciting story which we know the children will love!

Alongside this, children will be exploring lots of other amazing texts capturing their imagination to give them real purpose for their writing!

 

Maths

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This term, our focus is recalling our multiplication facts and using these to multiply 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers mentally and in a formal method. We will also be learning how to divide a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number. We have many other maths focuses this term, including money, interpreting data and measurement.

 

Other Subjects

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It's a great term for the other areas of the curriculum. Children will be learning about our 'Active Planet' how and why vocanoes are formed. We will be looking at volcanoes from around the world, making a erruting volcano in DT and learning what to do if we lived in a country with an active volcano!

Science links fantastic to our learning exploring rocks: Different types of rock and how they are formed. Force and Magnatism will be in the second half of the term!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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