Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Mrs Smith
Oak Class Teacher
Miss D-J
Chestnuts Class Teacher
Vicky Over
​LSA
Leigh-Anne Archer
​LSA
Pascaline Kesteloot​
​LSA

PE Days

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

Resources

Key Dates
​Monday 1st November - Home Learning is launched.
Monday 6th December - Home Learning is due in.
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This Half Term

Project - North and South

We will be learning about:​
  • ​The Northern and Southern Hemisphere and how they have opposite seasons.
  • What longitudinal and latitudinal lines are and how the earth is split into a grid using these lines.
  • Greenwich meridian and the reason different countries have different time zones.
  • The climate and weather at both the North and South pole. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • discuss the different features of the seasons.
  • watch frozen planet (which is PG).
  • discuss how if you go on holiday you could be in a different time zone due to the longitudinal line that runs through the country.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write letters for different purposes
  • Use paragraphs.
  • Use abstract nouns
  • 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 types of letters.
  • support your child writing their own letter to thank someone for something they have been sent.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. Access Spelling Frame games to help.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Add 3 digit numbers crossing and not crossing ten or hundred.
  • Subtract 3 digit numbers exchanging and not exchanging.
  • Estimate using knowledge of number.
  • Check answers using reverse operation method.
  • Multiply using 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:
  • ​Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise times tables​.
  • Go on Purple Mash and play some maths games to increase fluency and speed.

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create our own stop gap animation using an app on the chrome books.
  • Understand that stop gap animation is made by making tiny changes.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:

Science
  • This half term we will be learning all about Nutrition. We will be learning to:
  • Write a food diary.
  • Understand the importance of a balanced diet.
  • Collect and corelate data about fruit consumption.
  • Identify the affects of too much sugar in the diet.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could allow your child to:
  •  Help prepare healthy meals.
  • Read labels on packaging.
  • discuss the importance of eating five fruit and vegetables per day and eat five portions.
  • Look at the change for life website.  

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use pitched percussion to create an ostinato.
  • We will explore rhythm with unpitched percussion.
  • listening to Fiinlandia by Sibelius.
  • Memorise Christmas carols. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • 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 water makes and  comment on how the sounds different

PE

PE days are Wednesday and Friday for Year 3.This half term we will be:
Indoor: 
  • Fundamental movements in dance.
  • How to move our body's in a rhythmic way to music.
  • traveling in different ways.
  • Pair work using action and reaction.
  • Canon, one movement after another.
  • Unison, moving at the same time.
Outdoor:
  • Jumping for distance.
  • Throwing for distance.

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

This half term we will be learning:
  • How to celebrate difference.
  • Understand that differences and conflicts happen among family members.
  • Recognise that some words are using in harmful ways.
  • Be able to give and receive compliments.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at your family tree.
  • Look at how your family came together (eg step, adoptive, extended family).
  • Discuss physical differences between people (for example,  eye, hair and skin colour, height, how big or small someone's nose or ears are) and that it is perfectly normal to be different from others.

RE

This half term we will be learning:
  • The importance of Christmas to Christians.
  • About Christian and non Christian traditions around the celebration of Christmas.
  • Has Christianity lost its true meaning?

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Partake in non Christian traditions around Christmas such as visiting Santa.
  • Make a Christingle.
  • Write Christmas cards.
  • Write a letter to Santa to tie in with our letter writing in English.