Welcome to Year 3 

The Team

Mrs Smith
Oak Class Teacher
Miss D-J
Chestnuts Class Teacher
Mrs Clarke
​LSA
Mrs Mutchell
​LSA
​Mrs Martin
​LSA

PE Days

Outside PE for both classes: Wednesday; this has changed this term.
Indoor PE for both classes: Thursday

This Half Term

Project - Where we live, Buckinghamshire 

We will be learning about:
  • The levels of traffic outside the school at different times of the day.
  • Features of Buckinghamshire and use a key to identify them.
  •  How to plot on a map of Norfolk the features of the county.
  •  Identify where Norfolk is on a map using the grid reference. 
  • ​How to compare the two different counties that we have been studying.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Go for walks in the local area and see if you can spot any landmarks.
  • Visit different places around the county and identify any differences or similarities to where you live.
  • Do some map work; find out which other counties surround Buckinghamshire.

Writing

Suggested activities to support learning:
We will be learning how to:
  • Write a poem based on The City of Silence
  • 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 poems.
  • support your child writing their own poem about something they enjoy.
  • Read daily at home.
  • Learn your weekly spelling rule. Access Spelling Frame games to help.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise and describe 2d and 3d shapes.
  • Identify parallel and perpendicular lines in shapes.
  • Identify horizontal and vertical lines in shapes.
  • Identify right angles in shapes.

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 Forces and Magnets. We will be learning:
  • A magnet is a material or object that produces an invisible magnetic field.
  •  Magnetic fields pull on only a few other metals (e.g. iron) and attracts/repels other magnets.
  • A magnetic field is strongest at a pole (e.g. the ends of a bar magnet.)
  • Magnets have north and south poles.
  • Opposite poles attract.
  • Similar poles repel.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Find things in your home that are magnetic.
  • What types of objects do magnets attach themselves to?

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 have a tennis coach in on a Thursday and the children will also be doing OAA.
​During these lessons the children will be learning:
  • Fundamental movements
  • How to send and receive a moving ball with hands and rackets.
  • how to participate in rally's and small games.

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:
  • Changes from young to old.
  • The way boys and girls bodies change  inside and outside as they become adult
  • To understand that changing and growing up is normal.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Answer any questions that your child may have regarding changes to their bodies.​
  • Ensure they understand that all changes are normal.

RE

This half term we will be learning:
  • The importance of the River Ganges to Hindu's
  • The importance of water in everyday lives.
  • The importance of religious pilgrimages. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • ​Visit a local river, what do you see there?
  • How many ways do you use water at home?
  • Discuss ways that you could save water at home.