Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
We are so excited to welcome you to Year 3 for a fantastic year of learning, discovery, and fun! In Year 3, you'll explore new topics, develop your skills, and make wonderful memories with your friends. Our classroom is a place where curiosity and creativity thrive, and we can't wait to see you grow and shine.
Get ready for an exciting adventure—your Year 3 journey starts here!
Spring 1 Weekly Timetable
Each day, the children will focus on the core subjects in the morning – Writing, Whole Class Reading, Maths, Spelling and Times Tables. Foundation subjects are spread out throughout the week.
Important sessions to note:
Monday (Miss Powell) - Singing, Homework will be sent home
Tuesday (Miss Powell) - Class Prayer
Wednesday (Mrs Taylor)- Gospel Assembly, PE with Mrs Taylor
Thursday (Miss Powell) - Class Prayer, Homework due in, Spelling and Arithmetic Tests
Friday (Miss Powell) - Praise Assembly, PE with Coach Danny, Spanish with Mrs Bellas
Please remember to have your PE kit in school on your PE day. Children need to be in full school uniform, and will get changed at school, prior to the lesson.
Homework
Homework will be set and sent home on a Monday and should be returned by a Thursday.
Children should spend 20 minutes on each piece of weekly homework. Children do not need to complete all their homework in one go. Little and often throughout the week is key! E
English and Maths homework will be sent on a 3-week rotation, unless there is a particular 'Themed' homework that week. We have been providing a homework club twice a week, which has been a real success. Please contact the school office if you would like your child to attend.
English Homework - reading or writing (one piece on a three-week rotation)
Maths Homework - consolidation of the week and / or timetables (one piece on a three-week rotation)
Themed homework - if there is a significant event happening, we will use homework as a chance to explore these, instead of English or Maths.
Times Tables Rockstars and Spelling Frame - all children have personal logins. Children need to practise every day in preparation for their arithmetic and spelling tests on a Thursday. (Daily for 10 minutes)
Reading - children need to read every day and have their reading diary signed. (Daily for 10 minutes)
What will we learn during Spring 1 ?
Writing
In our literacy lessons, we will be exploring the following texts:
Christmas Dessert (Non-fiction - Persuasive Post)
The Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura (Fiction - Adventure)
Click on the image to listen to the story
The children will develop their writing skills through sentence-stacking lessons and build up to an independent writing task.
The independent writing tasks this half-term will be to create a social media persuasive post and to retell a story with an alternative character.
Key websites to support writing development
Grammar, punctuation and spelling - KS2 English - BBC Bitesize
Reading
During our guided reading lessons this half-term, Year 3 will be reading and analysing the following:
The Fossil Hunter (Non-fiction - Biography) The Twits by Roald Dahl (Fiction - Comedy)
The Stone Age by Ben Hubbard (Non-fiction - Non-chronological Report)
Our lessons will focus on reading fluency, understanding word meanings in context, summarising and answering retrieval questions. We will also focus on building independent inference skills to delve deeper into the different themes, characters and events in each of the texts.
Maths
In Maths, we will study Multiplication and Division and Length and Perimeter.
We continue to use White Rose Maths, firstly developing the children's fluency and building on the application of mathematical knowledge to deepen their understanding, master concepts and apply what they have learnt to a range of problem-solving and reasoning.
Videos to support key methods in maths
(To be added)
Times Tables
The children have dedicated time twice a week to learn and practise times tables to ensure they are increasing in accuracy and speed. This needs to be supported daily at home for at least 10 minutes.
Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
RE - Galilee to Jerusalem
In this branch, the children will encounter the Gospel of St Matthew. The children will be able to retell the visit of the Magi and what the gifts they bring show us about Jesus. We will look at scriptural texts based on the miracles of Jesus and parables. We will look at what these texts teach us and how they link to the Kingdom of God.
Science - Light
The children will be exploring the following:
- Light helps us to see
- Light from the sun can be dangerous
- Light reflects on different surfaces
- Shadows occur when light is blocked
- Shadows can change in size
Hisory - Prehisotic Britain
The children will be exploring the following:
- What is meant by 'Prehistory'
- What life was like in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.
- How people lived in the Bronze and Iron Age
DT - Mechanisms
In DT, the children will explore mechanisms through our unit on Levers and Linkages Posters.
The children will focus on the following:
- How linkages move and how to create diagrams to show this
- Design a moving poster with at least one linkage
- Make and test a mechanism
- Evaluating how successful a product is against a design criteria
Physical Education -
