Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

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


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Miss Hegarty
​LSA

PE Days

PE Days

Chestnut: Monday and Wednesday
Oak: Tuesday and Wednesday

Resources


Key Dates
Monday 29th April 2024 - Whole School Maths Day.
Monday 6th May 2024 - Bank Holiday (School closed).
Monday 13th May 2024 - Home learning due in.
Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Home Learning Gallery in the hall at 2.45pm (All families welcome). 
Friday 24th May 2024 - Last day of term.
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Term 5

Project - Would you prefer to live in the stone age, bronze age or the iron age?

We will be learning about:​

●       How farming using tools changed life for hunter-gathers in the Stone Age.
●       Where Skara Brae is and begin to understand where on a timeline this settlement would have been. (2000BC)
●       Investigate what the remains of Otzi the Iceman can tell us about the Stone Age.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read books about the stone age.
  • Research Skara Brae, Otzi the Iceman or Skara Brae
  • Create stone age artwork using things you have gathered such as fruit, plants or mud.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write a meeting tale.
  • Build suspense within our story.
  • Correctly punctuate direct speech.
  • Use fronted adverbials for where, when and how.
  • Accurately self and peer assess a piece of writing identifying corrections and opportunities to improve sentences.
  • Write instructions correctly
To support your child at home you could:​.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. Access Spelling Frame games to help.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Add and subtract fractions.
  • Find unit and non-unit fractions of amounts. 
  • Recognise different coins and notes to understand the value of money. 

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 algorithms 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:
  • Create our own trailer
  • Add text to a video
  • Add a voice over
  • Create a storyboard 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning



To support your child at home you could:

Science- 
This half term we will be learning all about Plant. We will be learning that:
  • Identify what plants need to grow healthily.
  • Describe the structure and function of the parts of flowering plants.
  • Investigate how plants transport water.
  • Describe the life cycle of a flowering plant.
  • Explain seed dispersal methods.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could allow your child to:
  • Go on a walk and collect different plants - attempt to classify them when you get home.​
  • Grow your own plants and see where they grow best

Music - Playing the recorder: musical notation.

This half term we will be playing the recorder:
We will be learning to:
  • Hold a recorder correctly, how to make a sound and different pitches of note.
  • Understand how to play 'notes' on the tooty flute.
  • That 'notation' is used to write down music, so that the tooty flute can be played to create a melody.
  • When music is written on a stave, in bars and has a time signature.
  • Know how to play 'in time; with the music
  • How to play  dynamics  (loud and soft) when playing a simple melody.
  • Note values of crotchets, quavers, minims, paired quavers, rests come together to create a melody.
  • To know how dynamics (loud and soft) are written under stave lines to give music performance directions for playing.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:

PE


PE days are Tuesday (Oak class), Thursday (Chestnuts class) and Wednesday for both classes. 
​This half term we will be:
Striking and Fielding
  • ​stop a ball when fielding
  • throw a ball under arm accurately 
  • hit a ball from a tee or feed
  • develop batting technique
  • work as a group when fielding
  • catch a ball and stump a post quickly
Athletics
  • running at speed over short distances
  • sustain a running pace to run for a longer period of time
  • investigate throwing styles
  • over-arm throwing technique
  • hopping, jumping and landing control
  • sprinting over objects (hurdles)
  • work as team to score points in an athletics circuit

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.
  • Investigate and watch different athletics
  • Watch sports that contain striking and fielding e.g cricket, rounders, baseball.

PSHE - Relationships

This half term we will be learning to:
​Relationships
​●       Know how to make friends.
●       Try to solve friendship problems when they occur.
●       Help others to feel part of a group.
●       Show respect in how others are treated.
●       Know how to help themselves and others when they feel upset or hurt.
Know and show what makes a good relationship. ​

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about the importance of friendship.
  • Talk about how exercise is good for both your physical and mental wellbeing.
  • Discuss  with your child how to contact the emergency services and what would be considered an emergency.

RE - Christianity 

This half term we will be learning:
Focus: Christianity
  • What the Bible is and why it is important to Christians.
  • How Christians use the Bible at home and in Church.
  • What the different types of writing are in the Bible and why each are important.
  • What makes books special to different people.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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