Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Mrs C O'Brien
Class Teacher
​Chestnuts Class
Name
Mrs E White
​Oak Class
Emma Barton
​LSA
Steph Butler
​​LSA
Danielle Heggerty
​​LSA
Caitlin Byrne
​​LSA
PE Days:
Chestnut Class:   Monday (hall) and Wednesday  (outside)
​Oak Class:  Tuesday (hall) Wednesdau (outside)
Children come to school in PE kit on PE days. If your child cannot remove earrings themselves, please ensure they are not worn on PE days.
Key Dates
  • 4th September - Return to school (ROOTS week)
  • 11th September - After School Clubs start​
  •  Tuesday 12th September - Year 3 Parent Curriculum Meeting​
  • 26th September - Individual Photos
  • 20th October - Last day of Term 1
  • 1st November - First day back in Term 2

During Term 1

Project - Ancient Greece

We will be learning:
●       Ancient Greece period was 700-480 B.C.
●        BC stands for Before Christ and AD stands for Anno Domini.
●        Greece is located in Europe; made up of 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Seas.
●       Athenian and Spartans had an on-going conflict.
●      How Athenians developed modern day democracy.
●      How Ancient Greeks developed the Olympics games.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Watch the information video on Hoplite Soldiers.
  • Complete one of the suggested activities on the Home Learning Sheet.
  • Visit a museum showcasing Greek artefacts.
  • Create some Greek Art at home.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
​●       Consolidate our punctuation, tense, sentence types, noun phrases from our learning in previous years,
●      use fronted adverbials (words and phrases) add information explaining where, when or how.
●       create and use expanded noun phrases use adjectives and prepositional phrases to add detail to a noun.
●       use paragraphs group related material.
●       use adverbs describe verbs explaining how things happen.
●       use prepositions within our writing to tell you where or when something is.
●       use coordinating conjunctions join two related phrases.
  • use determiners ‘a’ or ‘an’ are used with nouns.


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
  • Read the model text and practice your talk for writing actions.

Reading

This half term our class text is:
​Greek Myths -  by Marcia Williams. 

We will be learning how to:
  • Read with expression
  • predict what might happen within a story
  • take part in book discussions
  • read for a sustained period of time
  • identify language and the structure of Greek myths.
  • identify common themes within texts.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read Greek Myths at home
  • ​Act out parts of a greek myth
  • ​Log In to MyOn and read some greek myths.
  • Read regularly with your child.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Represent numbers to 100
  • Partition numbers to 100
  •  Number line to 100
  •  Hundreds
  • Represent numbers to 1,000
  • Partition numbers to 1,000
  • Flexible partitioning of numbers to 1,000
  • Hundreds, tens and ones
  • Find 1, 10 or 100 more or less
  • Number line to 1,000
  •  Estimate on a number line to 1,000
  • Comparing numbers to 1,000
  •  Order numbers to 1,000
  • Count in 50s

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise times tables​.
  • Use Doodle Maths to assist and enhance curriculum learning.
  • Whilst shopping, mentally calculate some of the items in your trolley.
  • Use math skills in every day activities - e.g time, spending money.

Science

This half term we will be learning all about Our Skeleton. We will be Learning that:
​●       Bone is a living tissue.
●       Skeletons provide support, protection and allow movement.
●       The ribs form a protective structure around the heart and lungs; the skull protects the brain.
●       Inside bone is a spongy tissue called bone marrow.
●       Elastic groups of fibres known as ligaments join bones together.
●       We are born with around 300 bones but as we age, some fuse together. Adults only have 206 bones.
●       An exoskeleton is an external skeleton.
●       There three main types of joints: sliding, hinge and ball and socket.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at pictures of the humn skeletal structure.
  • Look at pictures of animal skeletal structure.
  • Research which animals have an exoskeleton. 

PSHE

This half term we will be learning to:​​
​●       Recognise my worth and identify positive things about myself and my achievements.
●       Know how to face new challenges positively.
●       Understand how to make responsible choices and ask for help when needed.
●       Understand why rules are needed and how they relate to rights and responsibilities.
●       Understand how actions can affect me and others.
Know how to make responsible choices.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

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


Outdoor PE is Wednesday
Indoor PE is  Monday or Tuesday
This half term, during outdoor PE, we will be learning to:
●       Perform basic skills of throwing, catching 3-4 metres apart.
●       Throw and catch a variety of ways with control and confidence, sometimes on the move.
●       Perform bouncing into a target area, catching and dribbling.
●       Be able to throw, catch, move into space and score.
●       Be able to perform ball handling skills accurately, showing awareness of space and team mates.
Play the game successfully outwitting the opponents to score.
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This half term, during indoor PE, we will be learning to:
●       Slide on back, front and from tuck sit to pike sit.
●       Travel (T arms, releve walk, battement walk).
●       Balance using different points of contact.
●       Spin on bottom in tuck shape, on front, on back and complete a half and full spin on one foot.
●       Roll (dish, log, egg, teddy bear, forward/backward).
●       Accurately and safely leap (split, cat, stag, scissor), jump (1/4, 1/2, full, tuck, star, straight) and land.
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​ 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.
  • 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

This half term we will be learning to:
  • explore the meaning of signs and symbols
  • find out how symbolic food can be use to remember important events
  • explore and interpret religious metaphors
  • learn that religious beliefs and ideas can be expressed in different forms
  • learn about some common symbols within a place of worship.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Discuss different religions with you child
  • discuss different symbols of religion that they may have seen before.

French

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

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 

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • how to be safe on the internet and protect ourselves online
  • how to report/action any concerns using the internet
  • explain that digital devices accept inputs and produce outputs
  • model a simple process and design a digital device
  • recognise similarities between digital and non digital devices
  • know hat a computer network is made up of a number of devices
  • know how information can be transferred between different devices,

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • talk about the devices you use at home and in school
  • how to be safe online, protect ourselves from online threats

Music and Performance

This half term we will be learning to:: Tell stories through music.
  • Discuss stylistic features of different genres, styles and traditions.
  • Use musical vocabulary. 
  • Listen and recognise instrumentation.
  • Begin to use musical vocabulary to describe music.
  • Listen to and repeat a short, simple melody by ear..
  • select and create longer sequences of appropriate sounds with voices or instruments to represent a given idea or character.
  • Sing short songs from memory, with melodic and rhythmic accuracy.
  • Copy longer rhythmic patterns on untuned percussion instruments, keeping a steady pulse.
  • Perform expressively use dynamics and timbre to alter sounds as appropriate.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Listen to different genres of music
  • learn about and explore different instruments
  • explore how to make a musical instrument out of day to day objects.

Art, Design and Technology

This half term in Design Technology we will be learning to:
construct a castle ​
  • Use the equipment and media with increasing confidence.
  • Use shape, form, model and construct from observation and / or imagination with increasing confidence.
  •  Have an understanding of different adhesives and methods of construction
  •  Begin to have some thought towards size
  •   enabe simple discussions about aesthetics
 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • use different media to create temples and castles.
  • go to an Art museum such as the Tate Modern 
  • think about famous structures across England​
  • look for 3D shapes in buildings.

Unique Information for Year 3 - Caldecotte Residential Trip 2024

This our our Year 3 residential trip is to Caldecotte Xperience  in  July  staying overnight in the accommodation provided there.
More information can be found below about some of the activities the children may have a chance to do.
For more information about this upcoming trip, please attend our meeting after school on  To be confirmed