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Year 3

Top Marks Maths Games

Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Miss Devereux-Jones
Chestnut Class Teacher
Mrs Smith
Oak Class Teacher
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Mrs Clarke
​LSA
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Mrs Mutchell
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​Mrs McQuillan 
​LSA

PE Days

PE for both classes: Monday
​Forest School for both Classes: Thursday

Resources

Year 3 Induction Powerpoint
AUTUMN ONE Curriculum Overview
AUTUMN ONE Home Learning
AUTUMN TWO CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
autumn TWo Home Learning
SPRING ONE CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
SPRING ONE HOME LEARNING
Google Classroom
Summer One Curriculum Overview
Summer One Home Learning
Key Dates
  • Monday 12th April 2021- Return to school 
  • Monday 3rd May 2021 - Not in School due to May Day Bank Holiday
  • Friday 28th May 2021 - End of half term 
  • Monday 17th May 2021 - Home Learning due to be shared with class

This Half Term

Project - Stone Age 

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We will be learning about:
●       Know how what a hunter-gatherer was and how people ate in the                    Stone Age.
●       Know where Skara Brae was inhabited in time 2,000bc (just after the           Egyptians)
●       Explain how farming using tools changed life for hunter-gathers in              the Stone Age.
●       Know Stonehenge was built 5,000 years ago and was contemporary              with the pyramids in a time line.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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To support your child at home you could:​
  • Watch the information video on Skara Brae.
  • Watch the information video about Avebury Circle.
  • Watch the information video about Stone Henge.
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Stone Henge
Skara Brae
Avebury Circle

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:

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We will be learning how to:
  • Create a range of exciting pieces of writing each week using grammar skills learnt throughout the week
  • Adverbs express time and cause.
  • Apostrophes used on nouns to show possession.
  • Subordinate clauses cannot stand alone as a complete sentence; they add additional information or description
  • Paragraphs group related material.
  • Identify and use expanded noun phrases to make writing more exciting. 
  • Accurately self assess a piece of writing identifying corrections and opportunities to improve sentences.
Our Class Text This Half Term
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To support your child at home you could:
  • Use Spelling Frame to learn your weekly spellings
  • Practise your handwriting at home using the resources on Google Classroom
Spelling Frame
Karate Cats - Grammar Game

Maths

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This half term we will be learning to:
  • Find and write fractions of discrete set of objects for unit fractions and non unit fractions with small denominators.
  • Find unit and non unit fractions of tenths.
  • identify the connection between tenths and decimals.





Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise times tables​.
  • Go on Purple Mash and play some maths games to increase fluency and speed.
  • Whilst shopping, mentally calculate some of the items in your trolley.
TT Rockstars (requires login)
Top Marks Maths Games

Science

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This half term we will be learning all about Rocks. We will be Learning that:
  •  The Earth is at least 4.800 million years old and the oldest rock is about 4,000 million years old.
  •  Younger rocks are usually on top of older ones.   
  • Sedimentary rock is formed when sediment is deposited and builds up in layers.      
  • Igneous rock begins as molten magma.
  • Metamorphic rocks are rocks that have been changed by heat or pressure.
  • Soil is formed by weathering rocks into small particles that mix with dead plants and animals, water and air.
  • Fossils are prehistoric remains of plants or animals usually preserved under layers in sedimentary rock.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at the soil in your garden, sieve and separate it. what is the soil made up of?

PSHE

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This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify dreams and goals.
  • Overcome challenges to achieve our ambitions.
  • Enjoy new learning challenges.
  • Follow our school ROOTS and values.
  • Recognise obstacles that may hinder achievements and take steps to overcome them. 
  • Evaluate your learning process and how best to improve. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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To support your child at home you could:
  • Explain strategies you use to manage differences of opinion with other people.
  • Share what unique qualities make you special.
  • Encourage them to think about what unique qualities make them special.
  • Discuss favourite places and places which make you feel calm.
  • Discuss challenges you or people you know have faced in their life and how they work towards overcoming these.

PE

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PE day is Monday for Year 3.
This half term we will be learning to:
●       Develop and consolidate skills and apply the principals relating to putting, short game and long game.
●       Apply skills to suit different elements of golf.
●       Use given criteria to analyse performance.
●       Identify specific exercises as part of warm up/fitness routine for golf.
●       Show control of aim, distance and balance when playing a variety of shots.
​ 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

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To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the benefits of physical exercise and the effect that it has on our bodies.
  • Practise throwing and catching a ball between people or against a wall to improve hand-eye co-ordination.
  • Research how different speeds of movement are used in different sports for a variety of reasons.
  • Watch and comment on different dances (ranging from ballet to the Haka).
  • Research different techniques used for throwing (such as javelin, discus and shot put).

RE

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This half term we will be learning to:
​• Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers.
• Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and build vocabulary and knowledge.
• Articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
• Give well-structured descriptions and explanations
• Participate actively in collaborative conversations
• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
• Participate in discussions, presentations, performances and debates
• Consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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To support your child at home you could:​
  • Read different stories about the deities in the Hindu religion
  • Talk to your child about how they may be special in different ways to different people.

French

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This half term we will be learning to:
  • Read, write and recognise numbers to 20
  • Say hello and ask people how they are feeling
  • Ask people their name and say yours
  • Know colours
  • Be able to read, recognise and say animal names in French

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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To support your child at home you could:
  • Play the videos (below) and see what words you recognise
  • Play the online French game
  • Make sock puppets and hold conversations between them
  • Make a poster of animals, colours and numbers 
virtually there - BBC Clips
French games

Computing

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This half term we will be learning to:
  • Type effectively using a keyboard.
  • Record data in spreadsheets.
  • Use basic coding.
  • Identify and correct errors in lines of code.
  • Change the format of word documents.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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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.
  • Draw bar charts and re-create these on Purple Mash.

Location

Office Contact: Julie Newton

​Great Linford Primary School
St Leger Drive
Milton Keynes
​MK14 5BL
01908 605027

​If you would like a paper copy of any of the information displayed on our website, please contact the office. 
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