Welcome to Year 3

In Year 3, our teachers are Mrs Watkins and Mrs Hyland (Flamingos), Miss Scandrett (Macaws) and Miss Tyler (Toucans). We are supported by Teaching Assistants Mrs Oakley, Mrs Fenton, Mrs White and Mrs Smyth. Mr Ayers is the Year 3/4 Phase Leader.

New Class Videos - a "hello" from your new teachers!

Welcome to Flamingos from Mrs Watkins

Welcome to Toucans from Miss Tyler

Welcome to Macaws from Miss Scandrett

WELL DONE AWARDS

Friday 23rd October 2020

This weeks Awards go to:

Toucans - Alex B & Martha V

Flamingos - Betsy M

Macaws - Ryan F

FOR IMPORTANT DATES PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE CALENDAR

CURRICULUM

Please click here to view the Year 3 Curriculum Overview.

TOPIC

We have started our 'Land Before Time' topic, which covers Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. Children will be learning about how life in Britain changed during these eras and will refer to technical terms such as palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic. History lessons will focus on the skill of chronology and children will use and understand the terms BC and AD. Please see below for our full curriculum grid.

ENGLISH

Autumn term

In our English lessons, we are focusing on narrative writing. We are working towards writing our own version of 'Stone Age Boy'. Our English lessons will focus initially on sentence structure and basic punctuation before looking closely at descriptive writing and using expanded noun phrases.

MATHS

We began the year by looking at place value. We have now moved on to addition and subtraction using numberlines and the column method. We continue to practice using TTRS three times a week and often set tournaments between the three classes.

For more information, please see the White Rose yearly overview below.

Times Tables Rocks Stars - www.ttrockstars.com

Top Marks - http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games

HOME LEARNING

In order to minimise the amount of paperwork between school and home, we will trial setting homework on Seesaw. Children will be able to check their Seesaw for information about:

1) Spellings to learn for the week 2) The My Maths activity that has been set 3) The times table to focus on for the week

Children will also be able to use Seesaw as an online reading diary, recording what they have read throughout the week. Children are still expected to read 3 X a week and this will be monitored in school.

Banded reading books will be sent home for those children who are not free readers.

SEESAW

At the beginning of the year, a letter was sent home that outlined the expectations/usage of Seesaw. It also included an overview of the home learning plan for this academic year.

Please see below for the expectations/usage of Seesaw.

When using Seesaw, please only upload the following:

A record of reading (once per week, if possible, with three pieces of evidence)

SPELLINGS

There will be a weekly spelling programme during the term. For the first half of the term every child will be revisiting previously taught spelling patterns to consolidate their learning. During the second half of the term, we will complete five spelling sessions a week with the children. Taught spellings will alternate between Read Write Inc spelling units and the Year3/4 words.

Spellings (week beginning 19th October)

animal, crystal, equal, gradual, formal, magical, signal, pedal, whole, who.

Please click here to view the Year 3 and 4 Word/Spelling List.

PE

Please send your child into school wearing their PE kit on their PE day.

Tuesday - indoor PE

Wednesday - outdoor PE

For safety reasons, jewellery is not to be worn during PE lessons, therefore could you please ensure your child is able to remove it independently before the lesson or have it removed before coming into school.

For more information on what uniform is to be worn, please see the table below.

CURRICULUM EVENING 2020

Please click here to view the Curriculum Evening Presentation.

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT SCHOOL

Read with your child as much as possible as this helps with their fluency and understanding of texts as well as helping to increase their imagination for their own writing. Please ensure your child fills out their reading record for each book they read. We expect your child to read between 1 and 2 books from then school reading scheme per week.
Practise times tables. Revise 2, 5 and 10 times table from Year 2. By the end of Year 3, children are expected to know their times tables at speed and be able to rapidly recall the 3, 4, 8 and 11 times tables. In school, children practise times tables using Times Tables Rock Stars four times each week.
Encourage your children to play on the following educational websites:

Maths