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!
Autumn 2 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, PE with Coach Danny, Spanish with Mrs Bellas
Friday (Miss Powell) - Praise Assembly
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! English and Maths homework will be sent on a 3-week rotation. We have been providing a homework club twice a week, which has been a real success.
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 Autumn 2?
Writing
In our literacy lessons, we will be exploring the following texts:
Wolves in the Walls (Fiction)
Click on the picture for a read aloud
Christmas Dessert (Non-fiction - Persuasive Post)
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 a story retell where we will changes a signifcant characters and writing a persuasive post to buy our new Christmas pudding!!
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 Whatiffs (Poetry)
An Alien in a Jam Factory (Fiction - Adventure)
The Fossil Hunter (Non-Fiction - Biography)
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 Addition and Subtraction and Multiplication and Division
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 to learn and practise their times tables to ensure they are increasing in accuracy and speed.
Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
RE - Prophecy and Promise
In this branch, we will start to understand the importance of Mass and how Catholics celebrate.
We will introduce the prophet Isaiah and the work he was sent to do.
The children will begin to explore the promises made to Mary and Joseph and how these were fulfilled as we move into Advent and the preparation for the birth of Jesus.
Science - Forces and Magnets
We will be learning about 'Forces and Magnets', identifying what a force is and how these forces act on objects. We will also explore what a magnet is, different types of magnetic material and how the strength of magnets can change.
This unit of work allows for lots of opportunities to plan and investigate in a practical, hands-on way, allowing the children to learn from the results they collect.
Geography- Spatail Sense
In our topic 'Spatial Sense', the children will be learning about compasses and how we can use these to determine direction. The children will also begin to explore symbols on an OS map and how to use coordinates to find familiar places on a map.
Art- Painting
We will be starting a new art topic this half term - Painting.
We will use the work of Claude Monet to influence and guide our learning.
Physical Education - Dance and Game Sense Invasion
Computing - Creating media- Stop Frame Animation
