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

Outside PE for both classes: Monday
Indoor PE for both classes: Thursday

This Half Term

Project - The River Nile

We will be learning about:
  • How Egyptians live off rivers.
  • That the River Nile is 6, 650 kilometres long.
  • The length of The Nile compared to other rivers.
  • The other ten countries that The Nile run throughs in addition to Egypt. 
  • Some of the vegetation that grows in and around The Nile.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Go for walks by rivers and think about how they are formed and the habitats they provide for wildlife. 
  • Complete some map work, identifying rivers, following them from the  source to their final destinations. Identify how many countries they go through.
  • Compare rivers from all around the world, thinking about their differences and similarities. 

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write a non-chronological report about Egypt.
  • Use paragraphs.
  • Use subheadings to label our paragraphs.
  • Use subordinate conjunctions to add more detail to our sentences.
  • Use preposition for where, when and how.
  • Accurately self assess a piece of writing identifying corrections and opportunities to improve sentences.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Research Egyptian images. Create your own art work and write a description of what you have drawn or painted.
  • Research the ancient Egyptian gods and write a fact file about one.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. Access Spelling Frame games to help.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Multiply using equal groups and arrays.
  • Divide by making equal groups and sharing.
  • Multiply and divide in 2's, 5's and 10's.
  • Multiply and divide in 3's, 4's and 8's.
  • Your 3, 4 and 8 times table facts. 

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:
  • 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:

Science

This half term we will be learning all about plants. We will be:
  • Learning the different parts of a flowering plant.
  • Explaining the different functions of the different parts of the flowering plants
  • Exploring what plants need in order to grow well .
  • ​Investigating the way that water is transported within a flowering plant. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Plant a seed and watch it grow.
  • Allow your child to water an existing plants that you have in your home.

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Select appropriate sounds for a composition.
  • Compose a response to a chosen stimulus.
  • Create our own rhythms.
  • Understand how syllables in words can link to rhythm.
  • Identify how changes in a chosen musical stimulus can be interpreted.

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 differ.
  • Create music using Purple Mash.

PE

PE days are Monday and Thursday for Year 3.
This half term we will be Continue to encourage physical activity during lockdown by:
  • Discussing the importance that physical activity has on our over all wellbeing.
  • Participating in weekly yoga sessions to help both our body and our minds to stay healthy.
  • Learning about how high intensity cardio is good for our heart by participating in circuits using household objects such as a step or a chair.
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 participate in the weekly PE sessions which are set on google classroom.

PSHE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Set your own fitness goals and challenges.
  • Know what it feels like to make healthy choices.
  • Identify how you feel towards drugs.
  • Express how being anxious or scared feels.
  • Respect your body and appreciate what it does for you. ​

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.

RE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Suggest how a person may rescue/help others who are in difficult situations.
  • Ask questions about The Last Supper and Jesus' Death.
  • Explain why Christians believe Jesus' death is important. 
  • Reflect on whether you agree with Christian beliefs about Jesus' death.
  • Recall key events in the Easter story. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Discuss how you celebrate Easter or not and how this compares to other friends or family members who may do different things.
  • Visit a building of worship.
  • ​Discuss what common beliefs and values you hold as a family.
  • Investigate how beliefs surrounding Easter celebrations have changed over time. Which traditions are old and which are modern?
  • Investigate the meaning behind the traditions people have during the Easter time.