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 Boy who stole The Pharaoh’s Lunch by Karen McCombie.
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 multiplication and division and length and perimeter 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 their username and password, please let me know.
Science – We are investigating different foods and looking at the food groups. We will look at keeping our body and bones healthy.
In History, we are looking at ancient Egyptians. We will be looking at how they built the pyramids, why Pharos were so important, their different gods and how people lived back then, especially the development of early writing (hieroglyphics).
In Computing, we will be looking at coding using the program Scratch.
In Music and E-Safety we are combining the two as we are looking at online relationships and learning a song about being safe online.
In Art, we will be using Modroc to create sculptures.
In PSHE, we will looking at keeping myself safe and understanding danger and risk.
In French, we will be learning simple phrases and greetings including days of the week and months of the year.
In R.E, we will be looking into how Christians worship.
In P.E. our topic will be gymnastics.
All children will require a full P.E. consisting of shorts, school t-shirt, trainers/sandshoes as well as jogging bottoms and a hoody as we will hopefully be outside for PE during this half term. P.E. is on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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, 5, 10, 3, 4 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 practise 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
