Year 3
Timetable
Each day, the children will focus on the core subjects in the morning - Writing, Guided Reading, Maths, Spelling and Times Tables. Foundation subjects are spread out throughout the week.
Important session to note:
Monday - Hymn Practice, Homework will be sent home
Tuesday - Class Prayer
Wednesday - Gospel Assembly, PE (Gymnastics with PE coach), Spanish (with Mrs Bellas)
Thursday -Homework due in, Spelling and Arithmetic Tests, Class Prayer
Friday - Praise Assembly, PE (Midfulness with Miss Powell)
Please remember to have your PE kit in school on your PE days. Children need to be in full school uniform, and will get changed at school, prior to their lesson.
KS2 Afterschool Sports Clubs:
Wednesday - Basketball
Thursday - Street Dance
Friday - Glow in the Dark Mixed Sports
Please sign up to these clubs, along with all other after-school clubs, via the school office.
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 homework. Children do not need to complete all their homework in one go. Little and often throughout the week is key!
English Homework - reading or writing
Maths Homework - consolidation of the week and / or timetables
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.
Reading - children need to read every day and have their reading diary signed.
Spring 1
Writing
In our literacy lessons, we will be exploring the following texts;
Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura (Fiction - Adventure)
My Strong Mind by Niels Vab Hove (Non-fiction)
Click the images to listen to each text
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 retell a story with a new character and an instruction piece.
Key websites to support with developing writing
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 Twits by Roald Dahl (fiction)
The Stone Age by Ben Hubbard (Non-fiction)
Smile by Mike Milligan (Poetry)
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 begin looking at Multiplication and Division as well as 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 methods for Multiplication and Division
Times Tables
The children have dedicated time to learn and practise their times tables to ensure they are increasing in accuracy and speed.
Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
RE - Galilee to Jerusalem.
Science - Light
History - Prehistoric Britain
DT - Cooking and Nutrition
Physical Education - Mindfulness and Gymnastics
Computing - Data and Information