Welcome to Year 3!
Year 3 Staffing
Mrs Gaunt - Teacher (Rex Class )
Mrs Coleman - Teacher (Rex Class)
Miss Jamil - Teaching Assistant (Rex Class)
Miss Prins- Teacher (Slinky Class)
Mrs Wall - HLTA (Slinky Class)
Mrs Barzinji - Teaching Assistant (Slinky)
Miss Begum - Teaching Assistant (Slinky)
Summer A - What is it like in South America?
In English - Our first text we will explore is the biography of David Attenborough. In terms of reading, children will be able to discuss and sequence events. Children will be able to raise and answer research questions. Children will be able to orally recount a series of events using time connectives and conjunctions. Children will be able to identify the purpose of paragraphs. Children will be able to describe the common layout features of a biography. Children will know and understand the features of biography. Children will be able to use a range of sources conduct research for a biography. Children will be able to select and organise information into appropriate sections. In their writing, Children will be able to write a biography including: - headings and sub headings. - paragraphs. - time connectives. - conjunctions.
The next text we will explore will be Aesop’s Fables by Michael Rosen. In their reading, children will be able to take account of punctuation; discuss key events; retell orally and in writing; predict events; infer thoughts, feelings and speech of characters; discuss themes; identify key points in a plot structure. Children will be able to develop own plot for a fable; explore what characters think, say and feel for the new story. Finally, Children will be able to write a fable with a series of events, which includes features and focus skills.
In Maths- We will explore a few different topics within our maths lessons this term. We will by continuing with our unit of Fractions B which will allow us to learn the skill of adding and subtracting fractions. Next, we will move on to the topic of money where we will learn to add and subtract money and learn how to find change of amounts. We will end the term by completing the unit of time where we will consolidate our existing knowledge and add on to it with new learning. By the end of term, we should be able to complete word problems about time!
Geography - Children will learn about South America and Rio. They will explore the location of South America and its key features including the location of the countries within it. Next, they will look at similarities and differences between Brazil and our own country. South East Brazil's trade links will be an area we look into and finally, children will discuss the similarities and differences there were for Brazil from hosting the Olympic games.
In Science- Our topic this term and next term will be plants. This unit will take the whole summer term as we will be going into more detail, working with practical resources such as real plants and we will be completing investigations to learn as much as possible about plants.
In RE - Our big question is- What does it mean to be Christian in Britain today?
In Music- We will learn the song 'Bring us together'.
In IT- We will learn about creating media and desktop Publishing
In PE –We will develop our ball skills and balances skills for outdoor PE. For indoor PE we will learn how to do Pilates.
MFL-We will learn how to say the names of fruit in Spanish.
DT- In DT we will create a moving toy with levers and linkages.
Homework
Children are expected to practise reading their reading book for ten minutes every day. A parent or carer will need to sign their reading record once they have listened to their child read. Children will be given weekly spellings each Friday and they will need to learn these spellings for their spelling test which will take place the following Friday. Children will also be given Maths tasks to complete and be expected to practice timetables on TT Rock stars daily.
PE Kits.
Children have PE once a week for 2 hours. This will incorporate an indoor PE session and then an outdoor session.
Both classes can come into school on Thursday in correct PE kit. This is plain black joggers/leggings, a plain white T-shirt and a plain black hoodie/jacket as well as plain black trainers. Shoes MUST NOT be worn for indoor PE due to safety reasons.
Keep up to date with news about this half term with our class newsletters.
Here are a few useful videos, very popular with year 3, that will help the children with various aspects of English & Grammar!
Nouns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldeqKZvBpNs
Verbs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caxLA9HWQ5M
Adjectives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bXWY1nioE
Adverbs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfenLGAYDeg
Inverted commas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHyHMfjh1us
Commas (lists) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVHbN26z9A
Here are a few useful videos, very popular with year 3, that will help the children with various aspects of Maths!
Counting to 100 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc
Counting in 3's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxPKnLtnus
Counting in 5's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxVL9KUmq8
Greater than, less than, equal to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Efzu2sl
