Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

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


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Miss Hegarty
​LSA

PE Days

Outside PE  - Oak (Tuesday)  Chestnut (Thursday)
Indoor PE for both classes: Wednesday

Resources

Key Dates
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Return to school
Wednesday 6th March 2024- Books at Bedtime
Thursday 7th March 2024- World Book Day
Monday 18th March 2024-  Home learning due
Monday 18th March 2024- Parents evening
Wednesday 20th March 2024- Parents evening
Wednesday 20th March 2024- Voice in a million

This Half Term

Project - What are rivers and how are they used? 

We will be learning to:​
- Identify water stores and processes in the water cycle.
-Describe the three courses of a river.​
- Name the physical features of a rive,
Name some major rivers and their location
-Describe different ways a river is used.
-List some of the problems around rivers.
- Describe human and physical features around a river.

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 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:
  • understand, compare and order fractions on a numberline
  • count in fractions and find equivalent fractions on a numberline.
  • understand the whole and compare and order non unit fractions
  • use scales
  • measure mass and add/subtract mass in grams and kilograms, also find their equivalents
  • measure, capacity and volume using litres and millilitres.
  • Add, subtract and find equivalents of capacity and volume.
  • compare amounts off mass, capacity and volume.

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 - Journey inside a computer 

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise inputs and outputs and that the computer sends and receives information.
  • Explain that the parts of a laptop work together and the purpose of each part.
  • Explain what an algorithm is.
  • Suggest what memory is for inside a computer.
  • Make comparisons between different types of computer.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning



To support your child at home you could:
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Science
This half term we will be learning all about plants. We will be learning that:
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  • Identify different parts of plants and what they need to grow.
  • Investigate how water moves throughout a plant.
  • Dissect a flower and identify individual parts of it.
  • Understand the life cycle of plants. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could allow your child to:
  • Go on a plant hunt and identify different types of plants.
  • Explore what a plant needs to grow by giving plants different conditions at home.
  • Look at different life cycles and compare them. 

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • · Exploring and listening to ragtime music
    · Playing on the ‘off beat’ and sing a syncopated rhythm.
    · Playing a call and then improvise a response.
    · Improvising and composing a scat singing performance with sounds and words.
    · Composing and playing a jazz motif fluently, using swung quavers.
    · Playing a swung rhythm using a tuned percussion         instrument.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to different Jazz 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


​This half term we will be:
Dance 
  • 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.

Netball:
  • ​Passing, throwing, catching skills.
  • Moving and passing.
  • Pivoting on a spot
  • Being able to accurately 'shoot' into a net.

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 - Healthy me

This half term we will be learning to:
​Healthy Me
  • Make healthy choices and how to live a balanced lifestyle.
  • Identify different types of drugs and how to understand the difference between medicine and a drug.
  • Keep ourselves safe using the emergency services.
  • Respect our bodies and help others to do the same. 
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss food choices at home and why it is important to eat food groups such as fruit and vegetables.
  • Discuss the use of medicines within the family- how do you know that this is safe?
  • Discuss scenarios where you are required to keep yourself safe. 

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. 

French

We will be learning to:
  • Recognise up to ten instruments in French with the correct article/determiner.
  • Understand articles/determiners in French.
  • Learn to say ‘I play an instrument’.
  • Order and structure a sentence appropriately. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • Learn the names of musical instruments in English.
  • Discuss what different instruments sound like.
  • Practise speaking common French words and translate instruments into French. 

​Reading

We will be learning to:
  • Use a text to retrieve relevant information.
  • Make inferences based on what is said and done.
  • Read different poetry and how to perform it.
  • Create a written response to text that we have read. 

​Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • Share stories by Roald Dahl.
  • Look at different poetry and videos about how to act it out.
  • Practise reading aloud using expression and intonation. 

​Art & DT

This half term we will be:
  • Know the difference between organic and geometric shapes.
  • Use simple shapes to form the basis of a detailed drawing.
  • Use shading to demonstrate a sense of light and dark in their work.
  • Shade with a reasonable degree of accuracy and skill.
  • Blend tones smoothly and follow the four shading rules.

​​Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home:

-Research different artists.
- Have a go at drawing a picture of objects at home and what shapes they can see within an object.