Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Mrs Smith
Oak Class Teacher
Miss D-J
Chestnuts Class Teacher
Vicky Over
​LSA
Leigh-Anne Archer
​LSA


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Pascaline Kesteloot​
​LSA

PE Days

Outside PE for both classes: Wednesday
Indoor PE for both classes: Friday

This Half Term

Project - Where we live, Buckinghamshire.

We will be learning about:​
  • The levels of traffic outside the school at different times of the day.
  • What a key is and how to use it to identify features of a map.
  • The features of Buckinghamshire by using a key to find them.
  • How to plot on a map of Norfolk the features of the county.
  • How to use a grid reference to find a location on a map.  

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit different landmarks around Milton Keynes.
  • Carry out your own traffic survey outside your house.
  • Look at different types of maps.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write a Non-Chronological report about Brick Kilns.
  • Apply the different features of a Non-Chronological report to our writing.
  • Understand what chronology means.
  • Use fronted adverbials for Where, when and how.
  • Accurately self and peer assess a piece of writing identifying corrections and opportunities to improve sentences.
To support your child at home you could:​.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. Access Spelling Frame games to help.

Meeting Tale.
​Text Map

​This is our WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) which we learn together as a class and use throughout our writing as a model to up-level the language,  imitate  the style and then innovate from to create new stories of our own. 

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Convert different units of measure using our knowledge of mm, cm and m. 
  • Add and subtract different lengths.
Fractions
  • Understand what makes a whole.
  • How to find a tenth, count in tenths and convert tenths into decimals.
  • Find fractions of a set of objects.
  • Put fractions onto a number line.
Time
  • Recap oclock, half past, quarter past and to.
  • Recite the months and years.
  • Tell the time to the nearest minute.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Go on Doodle Maths daily to keep up streaks and earn stars to make your own Robot. Please let your child do this independently as this program uses algarythms to ensure the correct levels are being accessed.
  • ​Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise times tables​.
  • Go on Top Marks Maths games and play lots of number games.

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use the program Scratch to program a sequence of movements.
  • Use the program Scratch to program ​music.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning



To support your child at home you could:

Science
This half term we will be learning all about Magnets. We will be learning that:
  • A magnet is a material or object that produces an invisible magnetic field.
  • Magnetic fields pull on only a few other metals (e.g. iron) and attracts/repels other magnets.
  • A magnetic field is strongest at a pole (e.g. the ends of a bar magnet.)
  • Magnets have north and south poles.
  • Opposite poles attract.
  • Similar poles repel.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could allow your child to:

Music

This half term we will be playing the recorder.  We will learning to:
●       Pick out tunes by ear that they play.​
●       Copy patterns which include rests and syncopation.
●        hold a recorder correctly.
●       Play a note and  Identify notation on bars.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to different pieces of sung music and see if you can hear any different parts or voices 
  • Sing songs together in the car or around the house
  • Try singing a song in a round starting at different times.

PE


PE days are Wednesday and Friday for Year 3.
​This half term we will be:
OAA
●      Learning to read a map.
  • Learning to work as a team.
  • Learning how to follow an orienteering course.
Please ensure children have appropriate clothing in case of cold weather such as jumpers and jogging bottoms. Children will be wearing PE kit on PE days for the whole day so these must be suitable for the weather.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the benefits of physical exercise and the effect that it has on our bodies.
  • ​Discuss the benefits that physical activity has on our over all health and wellbeing.
  • Encourage your child to be physically active.

PSHE - Relationships

This half term we will be learning to:
​Changing Me
​
  • Express how I feel when I see babies of baby animals.
  • Express how I might feel if I had a new baby in my family.
  • Recognise how I feel about changes happening to me and know how to cope with those feelings.
  • Express how I feel when my ideas are challenged and might be willing to change my ideas sometimes.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about the changes that will happen to their bodies.
  • Discuss how these changes make your child feel.
  • Discuss the differences between boys and girls.

RE - Islam

This half term we will be learning:
Focus: Islamic rights of passage
  • To understand what Islam is.
  • To know what the five pillars of Islam are.
  • To explore Muslim birth ceremonies and naming days.
  • About the Islamic marriage ceremony.
  • About Muslim funeral ceremonies.
  • Understand the importance of Hajj.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Discuss different stories relating to Islam.
  • Provide opportunities for your child to develop positive attitudes towards religion.​