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

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

Miss Ward

Mrs Perrett

Mrs Turner

Mrs Northall

Our three school rules are:

• Be Ready
• Be Respectful
• Be Safe

We also have four listening skills that we actively teach across school. These are:

• Good listening is…sitting still
• Good listening is…staying quiet
• Good listening is…looking at the person who is talking
• Good listening is…listening to all of the words

Slides from the parents meeting 17.09.24

Developing reading skills

Our first class novel is The Midnight Fox. 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. The children will also bring home a reading record so that you can lets us know how your child is reading at home.

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. 

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: Gymnastics (Monday) and Football (Thursday)

Forest School: Den building, bush craft and camp fire during the spring term.

Homework

Given on Friday.

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Autumn Term

Week Beginning 9.09.24

Spelling

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

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 9.09.24

Spelling

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

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 23.09.24

Spelling

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

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 23.09.24

Spelling

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

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 7.10.24

Spelling

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

Autumn Term

Week Beginning 14.10.24

Spelling

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

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Games to enhance learning

The children completed work based on 'The Friendship Bench' by Wendy Meddour and Daniel Egneus in July when they met their new teachers. They are now on display in their new classrooms.

In Biology today we learnt about the skeletal system. 

We drew around each other and then added bones.

Which bones can you spot?

Today in RE we learnt more about how Sikhs make a commitment to God. 

We talked about visiting a Gurdwara and how a special sacred sweet called Prashad is given to worshipers. 

The children showed great respect when tasting the Prashad. They wore a head covering and thought carefully about the portion size they would take so that nothing was wasted.

In science we have been learning about systems of the body. This week we looked at digestion and how food passes through the body. We used a pair of tights to mimic the small and large intestine. We collected the waste in a bowl.