Welcome to Year 3!

Class Teachers:

Maple: Mrs Wright

Spindle: Mr Gook

Support Staff: 

Miss Adams

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Thursday. Please ensure your children come to school in full PE kit.
• Tuesday 19th May - Year 3 Fitness and Health Day.
• 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?

Spring

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" written by Michael Morpurgo. This core text is 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 a third person narrative, use dialogue within a narrative and formal letters to complain.

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 begin with a recap on foundational skills, ensuring those gaps are covered and recapped. This half term we will be focusing on multiplication and division before moving onto an introduction into fractions.

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

This term we are focusing on our 4 and 8 times tables, whilst revisiting our 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.

History

In history, we will be studying the Roman Empire. We will be focusing on:

• Who were the Romans?
• What was it like to live in Rome?
• Remember the Celtic people: what was it like to live during the Iron Age?
• When did the Romans invade Britain?
• Who resisted the Roman invasion?
• Technology: how did Britain change under Roman rule?
• Review session can be used to elaborate or catch up study
• Belief: how did Britain change under Roman rule?
• SUMMARISE IT: so, what was the impact of the Roman Empire on Britain?

Science

This half term, children will be learning about plants and revisiting animals, including humans.

We will be focusing on the following concepts:

• How does water move through a plant?
• What do flowers do?
• What is pollination?

And for animals, including humans:

• What effect does the food we eat have?
• Where is my skeleton and what does it do?
• Where are my muscles and what do they do?

French

This half term during French we will be looking at introductions and questions.

Pupils will know:

• The French words for different sports
• When to use faire and when to use jouer
• How and when to use prepositions au, a, la or a l'
• How to to plan, rehearse and perform a short play

Pupils will be able to:

• Read verbs and match them to actions or images
• Read questions and give both affirmative and negative answers
• Write short questions
• Following a simple playscript of a playground conversation
• Use future tense

PSHE

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

This half term we will be looking at "Relationships".

We will be taking a deeper look at:

• Family roles and relationships
• Friendship
• Keeping myself safe online
• Being a Global Citizen
• Celebrating my web of relationships

RE

During this half term we will be studying the Sikhism religion. Our learning question and enquiry will focus around, "Why do Sikhs admire their Gurus?"

We will be focusing on:

• I can recognise a leader and identify some of the responsibilities a leader might have.
• I can identify the special qualities in Guru Nanak and share what made him a special leader.
•  I can identify the ten Gurus and share how their beliefs or actions contributed to the Sikh religion.
• I can share how Guru Gobind Singh contributed to the Sikh religion and how his actions impact Sikhs today.
• I can talk about the Sikh Gurus and share some of their beliefs.
• I can celebrate and value the special qualities of leaders around me.

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.