In Year 3, our teacher is Laura Tomlinson assisted by Rachel Walker . You can find out more about our staff on our Meet The Staff page.
Useful documents for Year 3
What we are learning in Year 3 this half term…
English
In English- this term- we will be reading- The Creakers by Tom Fletcher along with some classic Christmas tales such as “Twas the Night Before Christmas” and “A Christmas Carol”
Writing skills:
- Writing in paragraphs
- To express time and cause using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions.
- expresses time, place and cause using;
adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon, therefore)
prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because, of)
- begins to understand subordinate clauses
- uses a varied and rich vocabulary
- Assessing the effectiveness of own and others’ writing
- proof reads for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors and self-corrects
Maths
In Maths, we will be following White Rose Maths. We will focus on addition and subtraction and learning more about our times tables. It would be helpful at home if children use Time Tables Rockstars and Numbots to help secure their knowledge. If you need a reminder of your child’s username and password, please let us know.
Science – We are investigating Rocks. We are going to look at different types and use some of the skills we have learned in our rock workshop to learn how rocks can tell us stories from over the ages.
In Computing, we will be looking at media and animation.
In DT, we are looking at information sharing and creating an electronic poster.
In PSHE, we will looking at Me and my relationships.
In French, we will be learning simple phrases and greetings.
In RE, we will be looking into advent and how it is important for Christians.
In P.E., our topic will be dance.
All children will require a full P.E. kit consisting of shorts, school t-shirt, trainers/sandshoes as well as jogging bottoms and a hoody as we will hopefully be outside for P.E. during this half term. P.E. is on Wednesday and Thursday.
How you can help your child:
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support you child in the following:
Reading- Reading any texts with your child will help improve their fluency and knowledge. We will send home a reading book assessed at their current reading level. We will send home a book for pleasure that can be enjoyed with your child.
Number skills- Basic number skills are a great way to help improve your child’s confidence in maths. We would ask that you support them to play Numbots/ Time Table Rockstars as this will really help their basic skills. Could you also use any spare time, i.e when you are walking or on car journeys, to chant times tables and ask your child questions related to times tables. We have now worked on the 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, 3’s, 4’s and 8 times tables. These skills will support them in all areas of numeracy.
Spellings- Each week the children will learn a new spelling rule. You could support your child with understanding these rules by helping them to practice them. You could do the look/cover/ write/ check method or even play games such as letter scramble (mix all the letters up and then put in the correct order) or hangman. Please use the spelling sheets on Tapestry each week to practice the relevant ones linked to the week’s work.
Keeping homework fun helps to engage your child and not add any pressure to home life.
If there is anything we can support, you with then please let us know.
Thanks
Laura and Rachel W
