Welcome to Year 3!

Class Teachers:

Maple: Miss Marten-Long

Spindle: Mr Herrington

Support Staff: 

Miss Lewis and Mrs Cleveland 

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Friday. 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.
• 4th March - Roman Dress-up & Craft Day
• 6th March - World Book Day
• 14th March - Reading Cafe 

Maple 9:00-9:45am 

Spindle 2:30-3:15pm

• 6th May - Math's Cafe

Spindle 9:00-9:45

Maple 2:30-3:15pm

• 8th May - Stone Age Dress-up & Craft Day!
• 22nd May - 11B411 'Go on a Hike' Trip (Weather Permitting)

What are we learning in Year 3 this term?

Summer 1&2

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 'The Dancing Bear' by Michael Morpurgo and 'The Magician's Nephew' by C.S Lewis. 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 summer term Year 3 will be learning to write third person narratives (animal stories), non-chronological reports, advanced instructional writing, first person narratives focusing on description and performance poetry. 

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 Mass and Capacity, Fractions, Money, Time, Shape and Statistics.

Children will have the opportunity to practice and develop their times table knowledge daily.

This term we are focusing on our 8x table and the relationship between the 8x and the 4x table.

Geography 

In geography, the children will be studying OS Map skills and Fieldwork.

History

In history, we will be stepping back in time and revisiting the Stone Age and the changes in Britain between the Stone Age to the Iron Age. 

Science

This half term, children will learn about Plants & Light. They will learn further knowledge about the parts of a plant and the importance behind features like their leaves and how sunlight, water and carbon dioxide are turned into food by a process called 'Photosynthesis'. They will learn about how light is reflected across surfaces and how shadows are formed by the light.

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.