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 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
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.
During Autumn 1, the children will begin their swimming lessons with 'Pools to Schools' in the purpose-built swimming pool on the playground.
This was an amazing success last year, and we are thrilled to be able to provide this for the children again.
Swimming will begin on 15th September.
All children will need:
- A swimming costume / swimming trunks or shorts
- A towel
- A swimming cap
- Flip flops / sliders to move from changing to the side of the pool
More details will follow in the first weeks of September.
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)
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 1?
Writing
In our literacy lessons, we will be exploring the following texts:
Star in the Jar by Sam Hay (Fiction)
Click on the picture for a read aloud
I asked the little boy who couldn't see (Non-fiction - Poetry)
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 and writing a poem.
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 Iron Man by Ted Hughes (Fiction)
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl (Fiction)
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 Number and Place Value and Addition and Subtraction.
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 - Creation and Covenant
‘The heavens are telling the glory of God’ (Ps 19:1).
In this branch, we will encounter the God who creates and calls people.
We will explore the revelation of Christian belief and that it all comes from God, the Creation accounts in Genesis, and scientific explanations of the process of Creation.
We will explore the call of God and his covenantal relationship with his people through Abraham.
Science - Rocks
We will be learning about 'Rocks and Fossils', identifying differences and how they are formed.
History - Ancient Egypt
We will be learning about the History of Ancient Egypt and its people.
We will look at the location of Ancient Egypt in place and time.
We will explore the way of life in Ancient Egypt as well as how we can use artefacts to help us learn about the past.
The children will be visiting The World Museum, Liverpool on Wednesday 1st October as part of this topic.
DT - Food and Nutrition
Physical Education - Swimming and Gymnastics
Computing - Computing systems and networks - Connecting computers
