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

Resources


Key Dates
Thursday 3rd March - World Book Day
Tuesday 8th March - Parents' Evening
Thursday 10th March - Parents' Evening 
Monday 28th March - Home Learning due in
 Friday 8th April - break up for Easter Holidays​

This Half Term

Project - Rivers

We will be learning about:​
  • To understand how Egyptians live off rivers.
  • To know that the Nile is 6,650 kilometres long.
  • Understand and compare the length of The Nile to other rivers.
  • To know in addition to Egypt, the Nile runs through ten other African countries.
  • To recognise some of the vegetation that grows in and around The Nile.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Take your children to a local river. What wildlife can you find?
  • Draw some pictures of the wildlife that you have found while visiting the river.
  • Discuss why civilizations such as The Ancient Egyptians would have needed the river to survive.
  • Discuss the importance of rivers as trading routes.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write a Non Chronological Report.
  • Use a title
  • Use subheadings
  • Use paragraphs.
  • Use captions and pictures
  • Use formal language
  • 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 different information text.
  • Support your child writing their own non-chronological report about something they like.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. Access Spelling Frame games to help.

Non-chronological Report.
​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:
  • Divide by sharing and grouping.
  • Divide 2 digits by 1 digit.
  • Divide 2 digits by 1 digit with remainders
  • Recapping counting money.
  • Identify pounds and pence.
  • Convert pounds and pence.
  • Add and subtract money giving change.

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:
  • Create, structure and use branching databases.
  • Use close  ended questioning.
  • Group different things together.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning



To support your child at home you could:

Science
This half term we will be learning all about plants. We will be learning that:
  • Green plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis.
  • Flowers are the reproductive organs of the plant.
  • Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma to produce new plants.
  • Identify different types of seed dispersal.
  • Know that roots help collect water, minerals and nutrients that help plants grow.
  • Know the stem is a support structure and can be used to store nutrients.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could allow your child to:
  • Grow their own plant from a seed.
  • measure it as it grows.
  • Attempt to grow a plant in the dark - have a look at how this effects the way the plant grows.​

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand musical terminology of singing and what effects are created: Rounds, Ostinato, Canon.
  • Know the values of notes and rests in 4/4 time including crotchet rests.
  • Know the vocabulary to describe dynamics:
          pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo
  • Listen to and understand that there are different ‘genres’ of singing e.g classical, opera, pop, jazz, rap and that our music ‘popular culture’ has changed over time.

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:
Dance – Machines
  • Use changing dynamics, rhythmic and expressive qualities clearly and with control.
  • Moving in unison, in canon, meeting and parting, going over, under and round a partner.
  • Copying and following, change of levels, on own, with a partner and in groups.
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 - Dreams and Goals

This half term we will be learning to:
​Healthy Me
  • Understand how exercise affects my body and know why my heart and lungs are such important organs.
  • Know that the amount of calories, fat and sugar I put into my body will affect my health.
  • Explain my knowledge and attitude towards drugs.
  • Identify things, people and places that I need to keep safe from.
  • Know some strategies for keeping myself safe, who to go to for help and how to call emergency services.
  • Identify when something feels safe or unsafe.
  • Understand how complex my body is and how important it is to take care of it.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about the importance of eating a healthy balanced diet.
  • 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 - Judaism

This half term we will be learning:
Focus: Judaism
  • That Judaism is one of the oldest religions.
  • That Jewish people believe in God.
  • What Passover is and how it is celebrated.
  • What Hanukah is and how it is celebrated.
  • The story of Esther and its significance to Jewish people. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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