Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
Class Teachers:
Maple: Miss Marten-Long
Spindle: Miss Porter
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
What are we learning in Year 3 this half term?
Spring 1
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 half term, our core text is 'Sam Wu is not afraid of the dark by Katie and Kevin Tsang. 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 Spring 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 multiplication and division, and length and perimeter.
Children will have the opportunity to practise and develop their times table knowledge daily.
Geography
In geography, the children will be studying counties and regions of the United Kingdom.
History
In history, we will be learning all about the Romans, as well as concluding our unit learning about changes in Britain from The Stone Age to the Iron Age.
Science
This half term, children will learn about forces and magnets. They will learn how objects move on different surfaces, explore the nature of contact and magnetic forces, and investigate how magnets attract or repel materials. They will also identify magnetic materials, understand that magnets have two poles, and predict the behaviour of magnets based on their poles.
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 practise their times tables at home regularly using Times Tables Rockstar.
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.