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

Resources

Key Dates
2nd November - Home learning Launched
Week beginning 2nd November - Spelling Bee Launched
9th November - Anti bullying week
13th November - Children In Need Day 
Week beginning 16th November Spelling Bee Class Quiz
26th November - Spelling Bee semi-final
7th December - Home learning due in 
11th December - Christmas Jumper Day. Christmas Lunch Day
18th December - Last day of school

This Half Term

Project - Journey of Endurance

We will be learning about:
  • The northern and southern hemispheres.
  • What the equator is. 
  • Longitude and latitude.
  •  The Artic and the Antarctic.
  • What type of settlements and land uses are found at the poles.
  • How the seasons are different in the northern and southern hemisphere.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Investigate how to use the different points on a compass to navigate around your house.
  • Write a set of instructions to direct someone else from one location to another in your house, garden or across a local park.
  • Find different countries on maps (paper or electronic) and see where they are on the globe in relation to us.
  • Create your own holiday brochure advertising a boat cruise to a location in the northern and southern hemisphere.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write a letter using first person.
  • Use fronted adverbials to link between ideas and across paragraphs.
  • Use considered adjective choices to add detail.
  • Use persuasive techniques in a letter.
  • Write a setting description of a polar landscape.
  • Accurately self assess a piece of writing identifying corrections and opportunities to improve sentences.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Research polar images. Create your own art work and write a description of what you have drawn or painted.
  • Research Ernest Shackleton and his three expeditions towards the Antarctic.
  • Create your own diary entries imagining you are Shackleton on his third expedition, stranded in Antarctica and trying to get home.
  • 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 and subtract 3 digit numbers and 1 digit numbers (including crossing 10).
  • Add and subtract 3 digit numbers and 2 digit numbers (including crossing 100).
  • Identify patterns in number sequences.
  • Use column method to show calculations when adding or subtracting.

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.

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 nutrition. We will be:
  • Researching the different food groups.
  • Exploring what a balanced diet is.
  • Explaining the effects of a good and bad diet on animals, including humans.
  • Conduct a survey on nutritional choices and analyse the results.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Keep a food diary for a week to track your own nutritional choices.
  • Explore the nutritional information on the back of your favourite foods: do any ingredients or sugar contents surprise you?
  • Research the five main food groups and then design a dinner meal thinking about balancing the main food groups.

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 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).

PSHE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Celebrate differences.
  • Give and receive compliments.
  • Manage differences or conflicts.
  • Follow our school ROOTS and values.
  • Understand the importance of Anti-Bullying week.
  • Explain how democracy works in relation to Parliament week.

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:
  • Investigate the true meaning of Christmas to Christians.
  • Compare whether and how we celebrate Christmas to how others celebrate it.
  • Understand the meaning of different items to the Christmas period.
  • Retell the Christmas story.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Discuss how you celebrate Christmas 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 Christmas celebrations have changed over time. Which traditions are old and which are modern?