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

Resources

Key Dates
Friday 9th October - Home Learning Due.
Monday 12th October - Parents Evening phone meetings.
Wednesday 14th October - Parents Evening phone meetings.
Thursday 22nd October - Last school ​day for Autumn 1 half term.
Monday 2nd November - First day back for Autumn 2 half term.

This Half Term

Project - The Ancient Greeks

We will be learning about:
  • A timeline of Ancient Greece 700-480BC.
  • The geographical makeup of the Greek mainland and islands.
  • The conflict between Athens and Sparta.
  • Democracy in Ancient Greece.
  • The development of the Olympic Games.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research famous ancient Greek buildings such as the Parthenon.
  • Investigate different gods which the Ancient Greeks believed in.
  • Read Greek myths and look for common morals.
  • Look at ancient Greek pottery and create your own decorated vase.

Writing

We will be learning how to:
  • Write a Greek myth.
  • Use fronted adverbials to vary sentence openers.
  • Use considered adjective choices to add detail.
  • Write a character description of a mythical creature.
  • Write a diary report.
  • Understand when to use first person and third person.

Suggested activities to support learning:

To support your child at home you could:
  • Draw your own mythical creature and write a description of them.
  • Read Greek myths and look up the meaning of new words you find.
  • Use fact books/internet to create your own fact file on Ancient Greece.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule.
  • Access Spelling Frame games to help learn weekly spellings.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Discuss place value up to thousands.
  • Use number lines up to 1,000.
  • Compare numbers and objects to 1,000.
  • Add and subtract including 3-digit numbers.
  • Add and subtract 1s, 10s and 100s from a given number.
  • Count in 50s.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Group every day items into equal groups. 
  • Create posters for your walls showing the 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
  • Learn counting forwards and backwards in 5s, 10s and 100s. 
  • Use lego blocks to find different ways of making a number.
  • Add up the price of items when out shopping.
  • Accurately measure ingredients at home following a cooking recipe.
  • Play Times Table Rockstars!

Computing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Type effectively using a keyboard.
  • Record data in spreadsheets.
  • Use basic coding.
  • 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 skeletons including animals and humans. We will be:
  • Learning the names of different bones in the human body.
  • Exploring skeleton types including endoskeletons and exoskeletons.
  • Discovering how animals with different skeletons move.
  • Investigating whether people with long legs can run faster.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research why some animal skeletons look different.
  • Create your own 3D skeleton and label as many bones as you can.
  • Investigate whether the person with the longest legs in your family also has the longest arms.

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.
  • ​Record how music conveys emotions.

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.

PE

PE days are Monday and Thursday for Year 3.
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Improve skills of travelling, jumping, turning, stillness, gesturing; changing shape/size/level/direction.
  • Increase the range of body actions; compose, practice and perform actions with control.
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).

PSHE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise when and how we effect the feelings of others.
  • Help others to feel welcome.
  • Understand everyone's right to learn.
  • Work well as a team.
  • Follow our school ROOTS and values.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • 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.
  • Discuss places where we can learn such as school, home and libraries. What environment helps us to learn best?

RE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Investigate what happens during the festival of Divali.
  • Discuss how beliefs and values can create a feeling of belonging.
  • Understand what it is to have an identity.
  • Retell the story of Rama and Sita.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Discuss different stories from different faiths and how they hold similar morals.
  • Visit a building of worship.
  • ​Discuss what common beliefs and values you hold as a family..