In Year 3, our teacher is Jacqui Evans assisted by Joanna Grundy . You can find out more about our staff on our Meet The Staff page.
Useful documents for Year 3
Year 3 Long term overview 2024 25
What we are learning in Year 3 this half term…
Literacy
In literacy this term, we will be basing our work on George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. We will be writing diary entries, instructions on how to make potions as well as narrative writing about the characters and settings.
Numeracy
In maths, we will be following White Rose Maths. This term we will cover place value to 1000, addition and subtraction before moving on to multiplication and division. We will be consolidating the children’s knowledge of the 2’s, 5’s and 10 times tables.
Science
Our science topics will begin with plants – dissecting and labelling flowers. Seed dispersal and fruits. We revisit and extend our plants topic again later in the year.
After half term, we will be learning about Animals & Humans – food & food groups, bones and muscles.
Foundation subjects
In Geography we will be asking the question “Is the UK the same every-where?” Covering UK mountains, rivers and landmarks as well as the weather.
In French we will begin with basic introductions and number to 10.
In Art we will be learning different shading techniques.
Our first topic in PSHE will be ‘Me and My Relationships’ which thinks about friendships, feelings, and pressure.
In P.E. our topics will be athletics and general fitness. Our P.E. days are Monday and Thursday.
All children will require a full P.E. consisting of shorts, school t-shirt, trainers/sandshoes as well as jogging bottoms and a hoody in case we can go outside for this half term.
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 journey’s, to chant times tables and ask your child questions related to times tables. We have now worked on the 2’s, 5’s and 10 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
Thank you!
Jacqui and Joanna
