Year 3

The Year 3 team is Mrs Biddlecombe, Mrs Finnegan and Mrs Nankivell

TLSA's - Mrs Harden

Welcome to Year 3

There is a Welcome to School presentation for each year group.

Welcome to Year 3 Parent Information evening September 2024

spring term 2025

Happy New Year from the Year 3 team! In English, each class shall be starting a new class shared reading text to continue developing vocabulary and key reading strategies such as inference, retrieval, and prediction. Spelling will continue to be set weekly and pupils are encouraged to apply the weekly words to the sentence writing challenge that is always set on the homework sheet. During English time, we shall be kickstarting the year by analysing a range of poetry before returning to fiction in Spring 2, as we move onto our year group author focus, Roald Dahl. In their new maths classes, the first half term will be focusing on multiplication and division outside of the known times tables (using the method explained at Parents' Evening). Don't forget that, within Year 3, children are expected to learn and rapidly recall the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication and division facts. In Spring 2, we will then move onto money, length and perimeter. Mathletics or TT Rockstars (when advised) homework will continue to be set weekly and will be linked to current learning. TT Rockstars can be accessed by the children as a further learning aid whether homework has been set on this learning tool or not. We are excited to take a trip back in time for our DPC Topic this term entitled, ‘Scavengers & Settlers’. During this unit, the children will find out what life was like during the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age and what evidence we have for this; whilst continuing to develop their sense of chronology. As part of art and design & technology time, pupils will be learning about the techniques and skills required to enable them to design, plan and make their own piece of Celtic jewellery and to recreate cave paintings. Science will explore the characteristics of rocks and their names. The children will carry out simple tests on different rocks, learn how fossils are made and develop a better understanding about the composition of soil. Our trip to Creswell Crags this term shall serve as excellent hands on learning within both our DPC and science units. RE, will firstly focus on what we know about Jesus through the faith of Christianity, before moving onto Judaism in Spring 2, with a focus on Jewish celebrations. In PHSE, we will firstly focus on ‘Dreams & Goals’ before moving onto ‘Healthy Me’ in Spring 2. Finally, on the sporting front, weekly P.E lessons (unless your child’s class has Forest School that half term) shall continue on Fridays. Please ensure your child wears their uniform compliant PE kit/Forest School long layers to school every Friday. Another exciting term of learning ahead!