Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Mrs O'Brien
Chestnuts Class Teacher
Mrs White
Oak Class Teacher 
Mrs MacKay
Fri Chestnuts Teacher
Isabelle Wilkins
​LSA
Caitlin Bryne
​LSA
Kirsty Austin​
​LSA

PE Days

Outside PE for both classes: Wednesday
Indoor PE for both classes: Chestnuts on Monday Oak on Tuesday

Resources

Key Dates
Sunday 12th November - Diwali
Wednesday 15th November books at bedtime
Friday 17th November- Dress up day for children in need
Friday 1st December Non uniform day - in return for a raffle prize donation.
Monday 11th December Home learnings due in.
Wednesday 13th December 2.30 Carol Festival @ St Andrews Church. 
Thursday 14th December- Christmas Lunch in the hall.
Thursday 21st December Home Learning Gallery from 2.30 onwards.
Friday 22nd December- Last day of term 

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This Half Term

Project - A Journey of Endurance 

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).Look at Jimmy's farm  - Polar Bear rescue!
  • 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 2 and 3 digit numbers crossing and not crossing ten or hundred.
  • Subtract 2 and 3 digit numbers exchanging and not exchanging.
  • Estimate using knowledge of number.
  • Number bonds to 100.
  • 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:
  • Use the program Scratch.
  • To build interactive games and animations.​

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Encourage them to play Times Table Rockstars.
  • Create flipchart animations using post it notes.
  • Try - https://scratch.mit.edu/starter-projects 

Science
​To know some examples of contact and non-contact forces.
To know that some forces are a result of contact between two surfaces, but some
forces can act at a distance (e.g. magnetism).
To know the North and South poles of a magnet.
To know some examples of magnetic materials, including iron and nickel, and how
they react to a magnet and each other.
To know some different examples of magnets, including bar, horseshoe, button  and ring,
To know some uses of magnets

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could allow your child to:
  • Talk about the force you're using when you move round the house... eg. When you open the door is it a push or pull force?
  • Use a magnet - check for magnetic items around the home.

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use pitched percussion to create a rhythm.
  • Create a composition to tell a story.
  • We will explore rhythm with unpitched percussion.
  • We will perform as a group around the theme of Chinese new year.
  • Memorise Christmas carols; sing in unison, learn about pitch and diction; contribute to solos and duets - perform to an audience.

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 around you and  comment on how the sounds different
  • Use a recording app to create a 'soundscape'.

PE

PE days are Monday (chestnuts) Tuesday (Oak) and Wednesday for both classes in  Year 3.
​This half term we will be:
Indoor: 
  • Fundamental movements creating shapes in gymnastics
  • How to move our body's in a rhythmic way to music.
  • travelling in different ways.
  • Pair work using action and reaction.
  • Canon, one movement after another.
  • Unison, moving at the same time.
  • Linking shapes together through repeated patterns and movements
Outdoor:
  •  Striking Skills (football)
  • Dribbling, pass, turning and shooting the ball.
  • How to combine these skills to play football.
  • Work as a team.
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:
  • About the importance of Christmas to Christians.
  • Explain what the nativity story tells Christians about Jesus (given to the world by God).
    Describe some different ways Christmas is celebrated by Christians and non-Christians.
    Explain that Christians believe Jesus was God in human form.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​​. 
  • Create a model nativity scene.
  • Create an information leaflet about Bethlehem. 

French

This half term we will be learning about:
  • The spoken names for animals in French.
  • How to use articles and determiners in French.
  • How to spell animal names in French.
  • The present 'I am'.....

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

  • Discuss learning within the classroom
  • Use online resources to help aid the development of French

Art and Design Technology

How to Support Learning at Home
  • Draw and label a simple castle that includes the most common features.
  • Recognise that a castle is made up of multiple 3D shapes.
  • Design a castle with key features which satisfy a given purpose.
  • Score or cut along lines on the net of a 2D shape.
  • Use glue to securely assemble geometric shapes.
  • Utilise skills to build a complex structure from simple geometric shapes.
  • Evaluate  work by answering simple questions
  • Have a look at castles in books from the library or on the internet
  • Talk about 2D and 3D shapes with your child