Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Mr Jenkins
Chestnut Class Teacher
Mrs Hall
Oak Class Teacher
Mrs Clarke
​LSA
Mrs Mutchell
​LSA
​Mrs Martin
​LSA

PE Days

PE for both classes: Thursday

Resources

Key Dates
  • Tuesday 5th January 2021 - Return to school 
  • Friday 12th February 2021 - End of half term 
  • Tuesday 5th January 2021 - Home Learning available on Google Classroom
  • Monday 1st February 2021 - Home Learning due in school to be shared with class

This Half Term

Project - Ancient Egyptians 

We will be learning about:
  • The achievements from the earliest civilization.
  • Using artifacts to ask questions about the past.
  • Placing events, artefacts and historical figures on a timeline using dates in chronological order. 
  • Mapping key information using an atlas.
  • The process of mummification.
  • Hieroglyphics and how to write like an Egyptian. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Research many different artifacts from this time period, ask questions and find your own answers.
  • Compare a map of Egypt today with one of Ancient Egypt. 
  • Research into mummifying fruits and vegetables and have a go yourself at home.
  • Investigate into the civilization of Ancient Egyptians. 

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Create a range of exciting pieces of writing each week using grammar skills learnt throughout the week
  • Use prepositions to show direction, location, time or place.
  • Use conjunctions and subordinate conjunctions accurately.
  • 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.
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:
  • Interpret data from tallys, bar charts, pictograms and tables.
  • Collate your own data and represent it as a tally, bar chart, pictogram and table.
  • Answer and solve two-step problems using statistics.
  • Measure, compare, add and subtract different lengths in cm, m and mm.
  • Measure and calculate perimeters in cm, m and mm. 

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 light and shadow. We will be:
  • Learning that we need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
  • Noticing that light is reflected from surfaces
  • Recognising that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes
  • Recognising that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object
  • Finding patterns in the way that the size of shadows change. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Measure your own shadow or that of an object throughout the day to see if you can discover any patterns.
  • Explore what objects allow light to pass through them.
  • Research ways in which you can protect yourself from the sun. 
  • Explore using shadows to create your own images. 

PSHE

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

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

PE day is Thursday for Year 3.
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Develop throwing skills using different items of equipment.
  • Improve our jumping technique including standing long jump and triple jump.
  • Improve our running technique over short distances.
  • Improve skills of travelling, jumping, turning and changing shape, size, level and direction.
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:
  • Investigate the true meaning of miracles and what this means to Christians.
  • Compare and learn different miracle stories from the bible.
  • Understand if stories have to be true to be meaningful.
  • Answer our key question on whether Jesus really did perform miracles and what this means.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Discuss what the word 'miracle' means to you.
  • Investigate a variety of stories about miracles, including those from the bible.
  • ​Discuss if you believe in miracles and why this is.
  • Discuss what stories have a meaning to you, what that meaning is and why it is important. 

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: