Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Mr Shipton
Chestnut Class Teacher
Mrs White 
Chestnuts Class Teacher
Miss Wilkins 
​LSA
Miss Byrne
​LSA


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Miss Pearson
​LSA

PE Days

Indoor PE for Chestnut: Monday
Indoor PE for Oak: Tuesday
Outdoor PE for both classes: Wednesday 

Term 6

Geography - Why do people live near volcanoes?

We will be learning about:​
  • The 4 layers of the earth
  • How mountains are formed
  • Mountain ranges and where they are
  • Tectonic plates

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research different volcanoes 
  • Go on a rock hunt and discuss where they have come from
  • Look at different types of maps.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to use in our writing of Persuasive Letters and Recounts:
  • ​Range of simple sentences
  • Rhetorical questions
  • Repeated words
  • Powerful verbs and strong adjectives that appeal to the reader
  • Adverbs of manner
  • Conjunctions of cause (because, consequently, therefore, as a result, so
  • Prepositions of time (time conjunctions) and place that are used at the beginning of a sentence
  • Use fronted adverbials for time
  • 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.

Persuasive Letter
​WAGOLL

 ​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:
  • Tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes. 
  • Convert minutes and seconds into seconds and vice versa. 
  • Understand turns and right angles.
  • Recognise different angles. 
  • Understand and draw 2D shapes. 

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:
  • Explain what is meant by ‘field,’ ‘record,’ and ‘data.’
  • Compare paper and computerised databases.
  • Put values into a spreadsheet.
  • Sort, filter and interpret data in a spreadsheet.
  • Create a graph.
  • Explain the purpose of visual representations of data.

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:
  • Plan a pattern seeking enquiry 
  • To gather and record data
  • To use date to inform design 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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

    Conduct your own experiments about grip size 

Music - Recorders

  • This half term we will be continuing our journey with the Recorders.
  • We will be learning to:
  • ​·read crotchets, minims, semibreve's and quavers on stave lines
  • ·identifying different note pitches on a staff: B, A, G, E
  • ·understanding how pulse, tempo and dynamics are represented on a musical stave and applying these to my performances.​· 
  • understanding that a duet is played by two players and sometimes the two melodies will create a harmony.
  • perform in front of an audience in a group
 

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.
  • Explore other 'wind instruments' of the orchestra.
  • Watch part of this years 'BBC Proms'.

PE


​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.​