Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Miss Devereux-Jones
Chestnut Class Teacher
Mrs Smith
Oak Class Teacher
 Pascaline Kesteloot
​LSA
Leigh-Anne Archer
​LSA
Vicky Over
​LSA

PE Days

Outdoor PE for both classes: Wednesday
Indoor PE for both classes: Friday

Resources

Key Dates
  • Monday 6th September - Home learning is launched.
  • Monday 11th October - Home learning is due in.
  • Monday 11th October - Parents Evening.
  • Thursday 14th October - Parents Evening.
  • Thursday 21st - Spooky disco 5pm until 6pm (KS2)
  • Friday 22nd October - End of Autumn One term
  • Monday 2nd November - Start of Autumn Two term

This Half Term

Project - Ancient Greeks

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

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
​●       Consolidating years 1 and 2 (punctuation, tense, sentence types, noun phrases).
●       Fronted adverbials (words and phrases) add information explaining where, when or how.
●       Expanded noun phrases use adjectives and prepositional phrases to add detail to a noun.
●       Paragraphs group related material.
●       Adverbs describe verbs explaining how things happen.
●       Prepositions tell you where or when something is.
●       Coordinating conjunctions join two related phrases.
  • 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

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise the place value of hundreds, tens and ones.
  • Compare objects.
  • Compare numbers up to 1000.
  • Order numbers up to 1000.
  • Count up and down in 50s.
  • Find 1, 10 and 100 more or less than a given number.

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.

Science

This half term we will be learning all about Rocks. 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 Friday
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.
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:
​• 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

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Discuss with your child the Hindu religious festival Divali.
  • Talk to your child about how they may be special in different ways to different people.

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:
  • 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

To support your child at home you could: