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


Indoor PE for Chestnut Class: Monday
Indoor PE for Oak Class: Tuesday
Outside PE for Chestnut and Oak Class: Wednesday  

This Half Term

Project - Ancient Egypt

We will be learning about:​
  • ​The achievements of the earliest civilizations.
  • Ancient Egypt in depth.
  • Howard Carter: who he was and what he discovered.
  • The artefacts found in Tutankhamun's tomb and what they tell us about his life and death.
  • what may have caused Tutankhamun's death.
  • the length of the time of the Ancient Egyptians from about 3100BC to 332 BC

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • learn about an Ancient Egyptian God or Goddess.
  • Look at where Egypt is found on maps and a globe.
  • Look at the course of the river Nile and how it supports all the people in Egypt.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write a traditional tale
  • Use paragraphs.
  • Use fronted adverbials for time and place
  • Use subordinate conjunctions to add more detail to our sentences.
  • Use preposition 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 different traditional tales.
  • Support your child writing their own openings to a traditional tale.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. Access Spelling Frame games to help.

The Egyptian Cinderella.
​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:
  • Estimate using knowledge of number.
  • Check answers using inverse operation method.
  • Multiply using repeated addition, equal groups and arrays.
  • 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
  • Division by sharing and grouping.

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:
  • Learning how to log in and out of emails.
  • Writing an email including a subject, ‘to’ and ‘from’.
  • Sending an email with an attachment.
  • Replying to an email.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning



To support your child at home you could:
  • Encourage them to play Times Table Rockstars.
  • Test your coding on Hour of Code.
  • Encourage them to play Spelling Frame.
  • Look at and talk about newspaper layouts.
  • Look at and talk about magazine layouts.
  • Create a page of information using cut out pieces of pictures and text and change the layout manually to choose a preferred layout.

Science
This half term we will be learning all about Rocks and Soils. We will be learning :
  • describe the appearance of rocks
  • group rocks based on absorbency, hardness and reaction to acid rain (vinegar).
  • describe fossil formation and identify fossils in rocks.​

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could allow your child to:
  • research palaeologists  .
  • observe the appearance of rocks closely, using a magnifying glass. ​

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​.Explain what ragtime music is.
  • Play on the ‘off beat’ and sing a syncopated rhythm.
  • Play a call and then improvise a response.
  • Improvise or compose a scat singing performance with sounds and words.
  • Compose and play a jazz motif fluently, using swung quavers.
  • Play a swung rhythm using a tuned percussion instrument.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research some famous Jazz Musicians.
  • Listen to different pieces of music and see if you can hear any instruments in the music. 
  • Use basic instruments or objects at home to create your own music.
  • Listen to the different noises around you and  comment on how the sounds different
  • Use a recording app to create a 'soundscape'.

PE



​This half term we will be:
Indoor - Fitness
Outdoor - Invasion games

 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:
  • Respect and admire people who overcome obstacles and achieve their dreams and goals (e.g. through disability).
  • Imagine how I will feel when I achieve my dream/ambition.
  • Break down a goal into a number of steps and know how others could help me to achieve it.
  • Know that I am responsible for my own learning and can use my strengths as a learner to achieve the challenge.
  • Manage the feelings of frustration that may arise when obstacles occur.
  • Share my success with others.​

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about different people who have overcome something to achieve a goal or dream
  • Talk about how it feels to be successful.
  • Set a goal together and work out some steps to help achieve it.

RE - Christianity

This half term we will be learning to :
  • Retell stories about Jesus healing someone.
  • Identify some questions people ask about Jesus’ healing miracles.
  • Explain what people think of as miracles.
  • Explain one Christian viewpoint about one of Jesus’ healing miracles.
  • Compare stories about Jesus’ miracles.
  •  Discuss what we know about Jesus already and discuss other people's view of Jesus.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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