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 B - What are earthquakes?
In English - We will be studying biographies this term. Our focus text will be the biography of David Attenborough. Our reading outcomes will be for children to be able to discuss and sequence events, raise questions and answer research questions. Children will also learn to orally recount a series of events using time connectives. They will be able to identify the purpose of paragraphs and notice and analyse the common features of biographies and their layout. In terms of gathering content this unit will allow children to use a range of sources to research for biographies to then select key parts and organise the information in the correct layout. Children will be able to write their own biography at the end of this unit and will include headings, subheadings, time connectives and conjunctions.
Our second topic in English this term will be Aesop's Fables by Michael Rosen. For reading aims, 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 develop their gathering content skills by developing their own plot for a fable; explore what characters think, say and feel for the new story. By the end of this unit, children will be able to write a fable with a series of events, which includes features and focus skills.
In Maths- We will continue with our topic of time before moving on to shape where we will look at angles, different types of lines, learning and drawing 2D shapes and learning and making 3D shapes. We will finish this academic year with a statistics unit and a final consolidation unit.
Geography - Children will learn about earthquakes. Children will learn that: The Earth is made up of layers (the crust, core and mantle). The top layer, the Earth’s crust, consists of large slabs of rocks, called plates. The plates move as the hot mantle flows beneath them. The movement of the plates causes earthquakes. Most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries. A tsunami is a giant wave created by an earthquake under the sea. A seismometer measures the strength of an earthquake.
In Science- We will continue with our topic of 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 study Glockenspiel Stage 1 - This is a six-week Unit of Work that introduces children to learning about the language of music through playing the glockenspiel. The learning is focussed around exploring and developing playing skills through the glockenspiel.
In IT- We will learn about programming in our second unit which involves events and actions in programs
In PE –We will develop our athletics 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
