Welcome to Year 3!

Class Teachers:

Maple: Miss Marten-Long

Spindle: Mr Gook

Support Staff: 

Miss Adams

Miss Gallagher

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Thursday. Please ensure your children come to school in full PE kit.
• During Spring 1, Year 3 children will have access to Forest School in the afternoons. Your child will have the opportunity to visit Forest School as part of a small group once a week. Please ensure your child has appropriate outdoor coat and wellies/spare shoes with them.
• Water bottles should contain water only.
• Children need to be reading at least 3 times a week and recording it on Boom Reader.
• Children need to be playing TTRockstars at least 3 times a week.

What are we learning in Year 3 this term?

Autumn

Reading

These are the texts that we cover throughout the year:

At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! We teach a daily reading session based on a  Curriculum for Unity School’s Partnership (CUSP) text.

This term, our core text is 'Leon and the Place Between' by Angela McAllister and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' by Clement-Clarke Moore. The core texts are supplemented by a variety of additional texts, to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.

Writing

At St Margaret's Primary Academy we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. The CUSP curriculum is a vocabulary rich, knowledge based approach to help develop pupils' retrieval, vocabulary and deepen learning. During the Autumn term Year 3 will be learning to write poetry, first person narratives, non-chronological reports, formal letters; perform poetry; and use dialogue through narratives.

Maths 

At St Margaret's Primary Academy we adopt a Mastery approach to teach maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include ‘Flashback 4’ where children recap 4 previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This half term we will be covering place value, length and perimeter, and addition and subtraction.

Children will have the opportunity to practice and develop their multiplication tables knowledge daily.

This term we are focusing on our 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables.

History

In history, we will be stepping back in time to study the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. We will be focusing on:

• What were the three ages on the Stone Age
• What were Paleolithic times like? How do we know?
• What were Mesolithic times like? How do we know?
• What were Neolithic times like? How do we know?
• What was different between the different Stone Age periods?

Science

This half term, children will be learning about animals, including humans. They will identify that  animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat. They will also identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

French

This year we will be learning to speak French!

We will be looking at numbers, colours and emotoins.

We will know:

• How to count up to 10
• Primary colours
• Words to describe our emotions

We will be able to:

• Spell numbers correctly
• Read written numbers
• Recite numbers up to 10
• Recognise primary colours
• Name seven colours
• Identify positive and negative emotions
• Describe we feel

PSHE

At St. Margaret's Primary Academy, we follow JIGSAW as our PSHE scheme of learning.

This half term we will be "Celebrating Differences".

We will be:

• Accepting that everyone is different
• Including others when working and playing
• Knowing how to help if someone is being bullied
• Trying to solve problems
• Trying to use kind words
• Knowing how to give and receive compliments

RE

During this half term we will be studying the Christian religion. Our learning question and enquiry will focus around, "Has Christmas lost its true meaning?"

We will be focusing on:

• Talking about what the Christmas celebrations or holidays mean to me
• Explaining why certain Christmas items or symbols might be meaningful to Christians
• Explaining why kindness might be meaningful to Christians at Christmas
• Considering how a Christian might explain why Jesus was sent to Earth
• Explaining that Jesus was God in human form and why God gave him to the world
• Explaining what Christmas means to me and talk about what gift I would like to give to the world

Home learning

We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged on Boom Reader. If you need support with Boom Reader, please come and speak to a member of the Year 3 team who will be more than happy to help. 

Children are expected to practice their times tables at home regularly using 'Times Tables Rockstars' (TTRS)

https://ttrockstars.com/ 

If you need support with logging into TTRS or are unaware of your child's login, please reach out to a member of the Year 3 team.