Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
I am 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 I can't wait to see you grow and shine. Get ready for an exciting adventure—your Year 3 journey starts here!
Miss Powell (Class Teacher)
Weekly 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 sessions to note:
Monday - Hymn Practice, Homework will be sent home
Tuesday - Class Prayer, PE (Athletics with Miss Powell)
Wednesday - Gospel Assembly
Thursday - Class Prayer, Homework due in, Spelling and Arithmetic Tests
Friday - Praise Assembly, PE (Basketball with Luke - Coach), Spanish with Mrs Bellas
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.
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 and Maths homework will be sent on a 3-week rotation.
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.
WB: 21st April - Comprehension Task based on Earth Day, Daily TTRS, Daily Spelling Frame, Daily Reading
What will we learn during Summer 1?
Writing
In our literacy lessons, we will be exploring the following texts;
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold (Fiction)
Click on the book cover to listen to Hannah Gold introduce you to her fabulous book.
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart (Non-fiction - Letter)
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 character description and letter writing.
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 Nothing to See Here Hotel by Steven Butler
The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepher
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 Mass and Capacity, Fractions and Money.
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
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 - To the Ends of the Earth
During this unit, the children will study the events that flowed from the Resurrection and Ascension in the coming of the Holy Spirit and the work of the apostles and early Church. They will also learn about the Catholic Church today as the apostolic Church and how its liturgy and structures flow from the early Church.
Science - Animals including Humans
We will be learning about different food groups and their nutritional value. 
We will sort animal skeletons into groups, discussing the patterns, similarities and differences between these skeletons.
We will investigate how the human skeleton supports movement and explain how bones and muscles work together to create movement.
History- History Heroes
We will be learning about different historical figures and how they have impacted the history of Britain.
We will study the lives of Elizabeth Fry, Winston Churchill, Lord Shaftesbury, Mary Seacole and Emmeline Pankhurst.
DT - Mechanisms
Physical Education - Athletics and Basketball
Computing - Creating Media - Desktop Publishing
Take a look at what we've been up to in Year 3!