Hello and welcome to Year 3.
We are now in Key Stage 2.

The staff in Year 3 are Mrs Perrett, Miss Ward and Mrs Smith. We are really looking forward to the new year and excited to see your children grow and mature in their learning. 

Mrs Perrett

Class Teacher

Miss Ward 

Class Teacher

Mrs Smith

Teaching Assistant

This is an overview of events throughout the year. All of these dates are provisional and may be subject to change.
Further details regarding the events will be sent out nearer the time

Spring Dates

Developing reading skills

Our first class novel is Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. Through this gentle story we will be ensuring the children's understanding of new vocabulary and identifying with the feelings of each character.

We will teach reading every day through choral reading for fluency, checking the understanding of vocabulary and helping the children to understand and enjoy what they read.

The children will have a reading book that they bring home every night. Please could you ensure that they bring it in every day as they will read it every day in class. 

Developing writing skills.

During the first half of the Autumn term we will be helping the children to understand how important it is to understand sentence and grammar structures to write a variety of coherant sentences.
The children will be looking closely at key punctuation and ensuring they can write independent, coherent statements, questions, exclamations and commands.
They will also learn how to extend sentences using conjunctions, adjectives and adverbs.
As a part of the writing process, they will review their work and make changes and revisions.

Spelling
Spelling will be a key aspect of developing writing skills and will be taught daily. Twelve spellings, linked to phonics sounds, will be learnt each week and will be found in the homework section of our page, where you will find other words that children need to learn to spell whilst in Year 3. 

Spelling tests will take place on Friday and include the 12 words learnt that week plus 8 words from previous weeks work.

Handwriting.
Handwriting will be taught every day. The children will be expected to use joined handwriting in their independent work by the end of Year 3. It is a key component in developing children's writing.

Children will build on these fundamental building blocks to write longer pieces of work as we move into the end of the Autumn term.

Developing number skills.

During the Autumn term the children will be learning to order, read and manipulate numbers up to 4 digits. They will be developing and securing their addition and subtraction calculations and increase their recall of known facts, eg. number bonds to 20, number bonds to 100.

Multiplication is an important aspect and the children will need to remember their knowledge from Year 2 (2X 5X and 10x) and moving onto 3X 4X and 8X. By the end of Year 3 they will need to be able to recall all of their multiplication facts in readiness for the Statutory Multiplication Test at the end of Year 4. They will be working on multiplication daily and recieving multiplication homework every week. 

Please use this link to access handwriting resources to support you child at home.

Science: Biology -The Human Body and Cycles in Nature
              Biology Plants, Physics - Light, Chemistry - Rocks

Religious Education:

Theme 1: The Amrit Ceremony and the Khalsa
Religion: Sikhism

Theme 2: Christmas.
Religion: Christianity

Theme 3: Miracles
Religion: Christiaity

Theme 4: Easter
Religion: Christianty

Theme 5: Sharing.
Religion: Sikhism

PSHE: 

Theme 1 How can we be a good friend? 
Theme 2 What keeps us safe?
Theme 3 What are Families like?
Theme 4 What makes a community.
Theme 5 Healthy eating
Theme 6 Dental Hygiene

History: The Stone Age to the Iron age and Ancient Eygpt
              The Anglo Saxons.
              Law and Power

Geography: Spatial Sense and Settlements
                   Rivers and the South West of England
                   Western Europe

Computing: Coding and Online Safety
                    Online Safety and Spreadsheets
                     Communication

French: Introduction to French Vocabulary.
              Animals, Carnival, Using numbers, Easter.
              Fruits and Vegetables

Art: Line, Still Life and Form
       Art in Ancient Eygpt and Anglo Saxon Art.
       Architecture

Music: Rythmic patterns, singing, using tuned and untuned percussion and improvisation.

PE: Basketball and Football.

Forest School: Den building, bush craft and camp fire

Homework

Given on Friday.

We had a fabulous time at Symphony Hall listening to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

We enjoyed the different sounds and learnt so much about what makes an orchestra, we even enjoyed a little dancing!

Summer Term

Week Beginning 29.04.24

Spelling

obey
main
mail
eight
ashamed
major
became
holiday
midday
replace
male
mane

Summer Term

Week Beginning 6.05.24

Spelling

Please review past weeks summer spellings

Spring Term

Week Beginning 18.03.24

Spelling

write
rhyme
through
arrive
territory
terrain
strength
straight
fruit
breath
breathe
group

Summer Term

Week Beginning 8.04.24

Spelling

science
scene
scent
bicycle
possible
missed
describe
interest
disappear
perhaps
history
sentence

Summer Term

Week Beginning 15.04.24

Spelling

minute
attained
attitude
extreme
history
thought
heart
accept
naughty
height
taking
except

Summer Term

Week Beginning 22.04.24

Spelling

musician
magician
mathematician
issue
parachute
chef
discussion
permission
expansion
ensure
shoulder
extinguish

Spring Term

Week Beginning 5.02.24

Spelling

soldier
average
language
agenda
agent
agitate
religion
unjust
jumped
project
reject
eject

Spring Term

Week Beginning 19.02.24

Spelling

accurate
occasion
chemist
antique
unique
chorus
quadrilateral
quarter
increase
peculiar
acute
active

Spring Term

Week Beginning 26.02.24

Spelling

material
illegal
neutral
calendar
complete
build
cycle
bicycle
circle
bawl
ball
enable

Spring Term

Week Beginning 4.03.24

Spelling

command
comment
summary
thumb
temporary
impossible
demand
memory
marking
memorial
mourning
morning

Spring Term

Week Beginning 8.01.24

Spelling

Loose
cool
whose
brew
rule
through
who's
sooner
crew
fruit
tool
soonest

Spring Term

Week Beginning 15.01.24

Spelling

therefore
thought
caught
quarter
important
uniform
talking
ball
bawl
forward
reform
deform

Spring Term

Week Beginning 22.01.24

Spelling

photograph
photogenic
enough
biography
graphics
February
different
difficult
favourite
famous
shift
draft

Spring Term

Week Beginning 29.01.24

Spelling

aggressive
colleague
league
guard
guide
diagonal
hexagon
polygon
pentagon
greatest
regular
group

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 18.09.23

Spelling

cat
plait
imagine
salmon
guarantee
random
grab
acrobat 
acronym
flat
flatter
flattest

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 25.09.23

Spelling

denominator
favourite
capable
potatoes
reign
rain
nominate
separate
unsafe
grate
male
always

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 2.10.23

Spelling

empire
medicine
Remember
decade
breath
exercise
decathlon
extreme
spread
friend
friendlier
said

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 9.10.23

Spelling

recent
deny
material
decelerate
nativity
laboratory
busy
complete
believe
receive
meet
meat

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 16.10.23

Spelling

consider
signature
different
bicycle
difficult
decide
average
language
bargain
busy
business
misty

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 23.10.23

Spelling

lightning
occupy
rhyme
migration
library
biped
cycle
bicycle
arrive
recline
decide
incline

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 6.11.23

Spelling

prohibited
acronym
acrobat
microphone
telephone
suppose
globe
grown
groan
though
focus
go

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 13.11.23

Spelling

interrupt
prejudice
bankrupt
borough
thorough
kilometre
couple
labour
numerous
judge
unfair
undone

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 20.11.23

Spelling

actual
accurate
evaluation
individual
numerator
particular
schedule
acute
continue
newer
newest
few

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 27.11.23

Spelling

aeroplane
aerospace
aerial
various
variation
stair
stare
prepare
declare
their
there
they’re

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 4.12.23

Spelling

superior
series
volunteer
cheer
here
severe
appear
disappear
weariest
hear
spear
fearful

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 11.12.23

Spelling

certain
perhaps
transfer
quarter
answer
prefer
purpose
circle
centre
early
heard
work

3P have been looking closely at trees and leaves.

They used their sketching skills and remembered their colour mixing from year 2 to create these lovely pictures.

Well Done everyone!

In Science the children have been learning all about the skeletal system.

They worked in groups and drew around each other. They worked together to add bones to the body and label them with the bones name.

We found a funny way to remember the Patella - by rhyming it with nutella! :)

We are studying Stone Age to Iron Age in History.

This week we looked at Stonehenge and found out how the ancient monument might have been built.

Look at out gorgeous henge pictures. They are wonderfull!

The children showed grest respect and superb manners whilst tasting Prashad. 

Prashad is a sweet blessing from the Sikh faith.

The children had great fun learning about the digestive system. We used a knife to represent the teeth and cut up an apple. We added water to simulate saliva and used a food processor to break down the food as the stomac would do. Finally we added the pulp to the leg of a pair of tights to simulate the pulp travelling through the intestines. The 'intestines' took out the water and nutrients and left the rest as waste.

We have been studying line in our Art lessons. We looked at Katsushike Hakusai's work with block printing. The children made their our polystyrene printing tile and used used rollers and printing inks to print these images. 

What a fantstic set of keyrings the children made!

They developed their design and sewing skills to create a keyring for that special someone.

They even did their own photography!

Wow! What a busy day.

Good listening and concentrating were needed for this making job today. 

The children made their own 'pop-up' card with two steps on different levels.

Some very careful, independent work!

Beautiful trees!

Paper folding skills, perseverence and concentration needed for this lovely craft.

We used clay this afternoon to make the 'Great Sphinx'.

We used our rolling and shaping skills and learnt to join with scoring and slip.

Today we looked at the bust of Queen Nefertiti. We looked at her beautiful collar and then recreated our own necklaces using paper plates and pasta.

Fun Fact: Nefertiti means “A Beautiful Woman Has Come.”

We are botanists.

We enjoyed looking at flowers closely, with magnifying glasses and then we drew what we saw.

Lovely bunnies for our lovely mummies.

Happy Easter Everyone.

Look at what we created to celebrate!

Today we became Geologists. We examined 7 different types of rock. We could even examine some minerals.

Sandstone, limestone, pumice, chalk, marble, slate, and granite

We used words like sparkly, powdery, smooth, hard, crumbly, glittery, permeable, sandy, heavy.

As part of our work on architecture the children designed and made a clay tile. We based our designs on themes from nature.

What a creative bunch of children they are!