Welcome to Year 3!

Class Teachers:

Maple: Mr Gough

Spindle: Miss McLellan 

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Thursday. Please ensure your children come to school in full PE kit.
• 20th October - Y3 Stone Age Day. Children are encouraged to come into school dressed in Stone Age theme.
• Spindle will visit the school library on a Tuesday, while Maple will visit on a Wednesday. Please ensure your child has their school library book with them. 
• Children need to be reading at least 3 times a week and recording it in their reading record
• Children need to be playing TTRockstars at least 3 times a week.

What are we learning in Year 3 this term?

Autumn 1

This half term, Year 3 will be developing their skills across a broad and engaging curriculum. In English, we will be studying a range of high-quality texts including Greta and the Giants and Pebble in My Pocket, using these to develop our reading comprehension, inference and writing skills.

In Mathematics, we will focus on place value and addition and subtraction, developing a secure understanding of numbers up to 1,000 and applying this knowledge to problem solving. In Science, we will investigate rocks and fossils, exploring how rocks are formed, different types of rocks, soil composition and how fossils are created.

Our History learning will take us back to the Stone Age, where we will discover how people lived during the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods and examine how life changed over time.

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 "Greta and The Giants" written by Zoë Tucker. 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.

Science

This half term, children will be learning about light.

We will be focusing on the following concepts:

• Do we need light to see things?
• How are shadows formed?
• What happens to the size of a shadow when the object moves closer to, or away from, the light source?

PSHE

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

This half term we will be looking at 'Being me in my world'. 

We will be covering: 

- Getting to know each other

- My nightmare school

- My dream school

- Rewards and Consequences 

- Our learning charter 

Our contextual safeguarding theme for this half term is 'Safety in our Community'.  

Home learning

We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged in their Reading Record. 

Children are expected to practise 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.