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Welcome to Year 3!

We will keep the Blog updated each week, to inform you about the children's learning. (Please look below!)  Also, please refer to the Home Learning section to see how you can support them with this learning too.  If you have any questions, please ask your child's teacher who will be happy to help.

Weeks Commencing 21^st and 28th November 2022

Home Learning

Please have a look at the information in our Home Learning yellow star which is in the Year 3 class pages menu.  As a school, we emphasise the value of daily reading. Your child has a home a reading record to support this – please ensure it is filled in and comes into school each morning.  We  also encourage regular practising of X table skills and number bond facts through Times Table Rock Stars and Numbots.  The link to these programmes is in the Home Learning yellow star.

Maths

We will be learning about multiplication and division.  This starts with a focus on arrays and then progresses to multiplying and dividing by 3  & the 3 X table;  this is then repeated for the 4 and 8 times tables.

Here are links to some White Rose videos which cover this learning.  We won’t be using these directly in class, but you may find them helpful for supporting your child at home.

Use arrays  https://vimeo.com/732395183

Multiply by 3: https://vimeo.com/732395341

Divide by 3: https://vimeo.com/732395377

3 X table: https://vimeo.com/732395412

Multiply by 4: https://vimeo.com/732395444

Divide by 4: https://vimeo.com/732395444

4 X table: https://vimeo.com/732395516

By the end of Year 2, children are expected to know their 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

In Year 3, we will continue to practise these, and will learn our 3, 4 and 8 times tables. 

We will finish writing our own Beasties story (using the skills of paragraphing; sub-ordinating conjunctions; expanded noun phrases and punctuating direct speech).

After this, we will begin ‘How Dogs Really Work’ by Alan Snow.  This is a fun explanation text.  We’ll spend a few lessons becoming familiar with the book and look at the text features and skills which the author has used.  Then we will spend several lessons learning these skills:

• Use headings and sub-headings
• Use a range of conjunctions to extend sentences
• Use adverbs
• Use pronouns to avoid repetition.

Reading

Your child should be bringing home a reading book from school each day, and a Reading Record booklet.    We really appreciate your support hearing your child read daily at home.   Please can you record the reading they have done in their reading booklet. We are using Accelerated Reader in school. Every half term, the children are tested on their reading and comprehension skills, and given a ‘reading zone’ of appropriate books to choose from.  Every time they finish a book, they complete a quiz which tests how well they have understood it.

 Science

We will be learning about rocks and fossils.  Over this fortnight we will go on a school fossil hunt and learn about what fossils are and how they are formed.  We’ll also learn about the work of Mary Anning.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘What is it like to follow God?  Having  learnt about the bible story of Noah, we will now focus on the Bible stories about Abraham. 

Design and Technology

This half term we will be creating levers and pulleys in cards, linked to our Stone Age theme!  We will be practising making different mechanisms which we will then use in a Jack and Jill book for Year 1.

History

Our History for this half term is all about the Stone Age.  We will learn about pre-history and how archaeologists use artefacts to find out what life was like in the past.

Weeks Commencing 7^th and 14th November 2021

Home Learning

Please have a look at the information in our Home Learning yellow star which is in the Year 3 class pages menu.  As a school, we emphasise the value of daily reading. Your child has a home a reading record to support this – please ensure it is filled in and comes into school each morning.  We  also encourage regular practising of X table skills and number bond facts through Times Table Rock Stars and Numbots.  The link to these programmes is in the Home Learning yellow star.

Maths

We will be learning how to add and subtract using the column method.

Here are links to some White Rose videos which cover this learning.  We won’t be using these directly in class, but you may find them helpful for supporting your child at home.

Add 2 numbers (no exchange)  https://vimeo.com/731049452

Add 2 numbers (with exchange) https://vimeo.com/731050814

Subtract 2 numbers (no exchange) https://vimeo.com/731049925

Subtract 2 numbers (with exchange) https://vimeo.com/731049925

By the end of Year 2, children are expected to know their 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

In Year 3, we will continue to practise these, and will learn our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.  Last half term we focused on the 4x table and this half term we will focus on the 3x table.

English

We will be learning how to punctuate direct speech using inverted commas (speech marks).   We’ll also continue our learning about sub-ordinating conjunctions and how to structure our writing using paragraphs.

Spellings

We are learning to use the pre-fix:   un / in / dis

The tricky words we are learning to spell are:  accident,  accidentally,  actual,   actually, address, answer

Reading

Your child should be bringing home a reading book from school each day, and a Reading Record booklet.    We really appreciate your support hearing your child read daily at home.   Please can you record the reading they have done in their reading booklet. We are using Accelerated Reader in school. Every half term, the children are tested on their reading and comprehension skills, and given a ‘reading zone’ of appropriate books to choose from.  Every time they finish a book, they complete a quiz which tests how well they have understood it.

 Science

We will be learning about rocks and fossils.  We will learn about the 3 main rock types:  igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.  We will investigate the properties of some of these rocks – are they hard / soft?  Are them permeable?

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘What is it like to follow God?  We will be learning about the bible story of Noah. 

Design and Technology

This half term we will be creating levers and pulleys in cards, linked to our Stone Age theme!  We will be practising making different mechanisms which we will then use in a Jack and Jill book for Year 1.

History

Our History for this half term is all about the Stone Age.  We will learn about pre-history and how archaeologists use artefacts to find out what life was like in the past

Week Commencing Tuesday 1st November 2021

Home Learning

Please have a look at the information in our Home Learning yellow star which is in the Year 3 class pages menu.  As a school, we emphasise the value of daily reading. Your child has a home a reading record to support this – please ensure it is filled in and comes into school each morning.  We  also encourage regular practising of X table skills and number bond facts through Times Table Rock Stars and Numbots.  The link to these programmes is in the Home Learning yellow star.

Maths

We will continue to develop our addition and subtraction skills.  

Here are links to some White Rose videos which cover the learning for this week.  We won’t be using these directly in class, but you may find them helpful for supporting your child at home.

Add and subtract 2 digit and 3 digit numbers not crossing the 100 boundary. https://vimeo.com/461352494

Add 2 digit and 3 digit numbers crossing the 100 boundary. https://vimeo.com/461794950

By the end of Year 2, children are expected to know their 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

In Year 3, we will continue to practise these, and will learn our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.  Last half term we focused on the 4x table and this half term we will focus on the 3x table.

English

We will be getting to know ‘The Beasties’ by Jenny Nimmo.  The book about a little girl who can’t get to sleep at night.  Each night a cute little Beastie tells her a story to help her sleep. It’s a lovely book, and once we become familiar with it, we will begin to write our own Beastie story.

Reading

Your child should be bringing home a reading book from school each day, and a Reading Record booklet.    We really appreciate your support hearing your child read daily at home.   Please can you record the reading they have done in their reading booklet. We are using Accelerated Reader in school. Every half term, the children are tested on their reading and comprehension skills, and given a ‘reading zone’ of appropriate books to choose from.  Every time they finish a book, they complete a quiz which tests how well they have understood it.

 Science

We will be learning about rocks and fossils this half term.  We will find out how much the children already know and will then look carefully at some igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock samples using the magnifying lenses.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘What is it like to follow God?  This week we will be having a look at the Bible and finding out how it is structured and what we might find in it. 

Design and Technology

This half term we will be creating levers and pulleys in cards, linked to our Stone Age theme!  We will start by looking at some books which use these mechanisms and consider what we will be able to design and make ourselves.

History

Our History for this half term is all about the Stone Age.  This week we will find out what the children think the Stone Age was like and begin to explore whether their ideas are.  For example, cartoon pictures may combine Stone Age people and dinosaurs, but dinosaurs died out 60 million years before the stone age!

Week Commencing 24th October 2022

_{Half Term Holiday}

We hope the children have a great half term break and look forward to seeing them back in school on Tuesday 1st November.

Weeks Commencing 10^th 17th October 2022

Home Learning

Please have a look at the information in our Home Learning yellow star which is in the Year 3 class pages menu.  As a school, we are currently emphasising the value of daily reading. Your child will be bringing home a reading record to support this – please ensure it is filled in and comes into school each morning.  We are also encouraging regular practising of X table skills and number bond facts through Times Table Rock Stars and Numbots.  The link to these programmes is in the Home Learning yellow star.

Maths

We will be focusing on on addition and subtraction skills.  

Here are links to some White Rose videos.  We won’t be using these directly in class, but you may find them helpful for supporting your child at home.

Add and subtract 3 digit numbers and 1’s not crossing the tens boundary: https://vimeo.com/459319169

Add and subtract 3 digit numbers and 1’s crossing the tens boundary:: https://vimeo.com/459365558

Subtract a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number crossing the tens boundary: https://vimeo.com/461351304

Subtract a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number crossing the tens boundary: https://vimeo.com/461351796

Add and subtract 3 digit and 2 digit numbers not crossing the tens boundary:: https://vimeo.com/461352494

By the end of Year 2, children are expected to know their 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

In Year 3, we will continue to practise these, and will learn our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.  We are continuing to sing the 4 times table and also to solve 4X table problems.

English

We will be reading and discussing ‘Beachcomber’ poem by George Mackay Brown.  Over the final 2 weeks of this half term, we will be writing our own poems in this style.  We will consider our choices of vocabulary, use of expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases and commas in a list.

Reading

Your child should be bringing home a reading book from school each day, and a new Reading Record booklet.    We really appreciate your support hearing your child read daily at home.   Please can you record the reading they have done in their reading booklet. We are using a Accelerated Reader in school. Every half term, the children are tested on their reading and comprehension skills, and given a ‘reading zone’ of appropriate books to choose from.  Every time they finish a book, they complete a quiz which tests how well they have understood it.

 Science

Our current Science unit is all about skeletons and muscles.  We’ll  investigate the role of muscles in helping us to move.  We will also measure how our heart rate changes with exercise and plot this on a bar graph.

 R.E.

Our current unit is: ‘What do Christians learn from the Creation Story?  This week we ask ‘Who were Adam and Eve and what did they do?’  We will be visiting the Church for Harvest Festival.

Art

We continue with our Cave Paintings by using hand prints.

Geography

Our Geography work this half term is ‘How can we live more sustainably?’ We are finding out the ways in which our school is carrying out sustainable activities, and how we could improve.

Week Commencing 2^nd October 2022

Home Learning

Please have a look at the information in our Home Learning yellow star which is in the Year 3 class pages menu.  As a school, we are currently emphasising the value of daily reading. Your child will be bringing home a reading record to support this – please ensure it is filled in and comes into school each morning.  We are also encouraging practising of X table skills and number bond facts through Times Table Rock Stars and Numbots.  The link to these programmes is in the Home Learning yellow star.

Maths

This week we will be focusing on adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100, including when crossing the 10s and 100s boundaries.  Here are links to some White Rose videos.  We won’t be using these directly in class, but you may find them helpful for supporting your child at home.

+ and – 1,10,100: https://vimeo.com/454675288

+ ones across a 10 boundary: https://vimeo.com/731046283

+ tens across a 100 boundary: https://vimeo.com/731046824

- ones across a 10 boundary: https://vimeo.com/731047347

- tens across a 100 boundary: https://vimeo.com/731048131

By the end of Year 2, children are expected to know their 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

In Year 3, we will continue to practise these, and will learn our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.  We are currently focusing on the 4 times table. 

English

We continue to study ‘Intriguing Animals’ by Ben Hoare. (A stunning book, with beautiful art work and lots of facts about different animals written to engage a young reader.)  This week we are writing our own information pages about a sea animal.

We will send the finished writing to Plymouth Aquarium.

We will continue to practise our joined handwriting and spellings.  We are currently finishing the Year 2 spelling programme (each class is at a slightly different point with this).  We will let you know when we begin the Year 3 programme and we will have a weekly focus across the 3 classes and 6 tricky words to learn each week.

We have added the Year 1 & 2 tricky words and the Year 3 and 4 tricky words as a document in the Blog so that you can see if there are any words from the Year 1 & 2 list which your child is still finding tricky.  These would be good ones to focus on.

Reading

Your child should be bringing home a reading book from school each day, and a new Reading Record booklet.    We really appreciate your support hearing your child read daily at home.   Please can you record the reading they have done in their reading booklet.

Science

Our current Science unit is all about skeletons and muscles.  This week, we’ll carry out an investigation which will link with our measuring skills in maths.  We will measure our height and the length of some of our bones.  Will the tallest children have the longest bones?

 R.E.

Our current unit is: ‘What do Christians learn from the Creation Story?  We began by exploring the school grounds and looking for awe and wonder, and then remembering the 7 days of the Christian Creation Story. This week we will consider what Christians do because they believe God is Creator.

Art

We are learning about cave paintings.  We have been drawing our own cave style animals and then scaling them up using charcoal.  Last week we made our own paints and this week we will be choosing and using different painting techniques.

Geography

Our Geography work this half term is ‘How can we live more sustainably?’ We’ve considered renewable and non-renewable resources, and have found out the different ways electricity can be made.  This week we will onsider what our school does to help us live sustainably.

Week Commencing 26^th September 2022

Home Learning

Please have a look at the information in our Home Learning yellow star which is in the Year 3 class pages menu.  As a school, we are currently emphasising the value of daily reading. Your child will be bringing home a reading record to support this – please ensure it is filled in and comes into school each morning.  We are also encouraging regular practising of X table skills and number bond facts through Times Table Rock Stars and Numbots.  The link to these programmes is in the Home Learning yellow star.

Maths

This week we will complete our learning of place value and then focus on addition and subtraction skills.  This week we will be focusing on comparing and ordering numbers, and counting in 50s.

Here are links to some White Rose videos.  We won’t be using these directly in class, but you may find them helpful for supporting your child at home.

Compare numbers: https://vimeo.com/457760511

Order numbers: https://vimeo.com/457760822

Counting in 50s:https://vimeo.com/457790310

By the end of Year 2, children are expected to know their 2, 5, and 10 times tables.

In Year 3, we will continue to practise these, and will learn our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.  We are currently focusing on  the 4 times table.

English

We are studying ‘Intriguing Animals’ by Ben Hoare. (A stunning book, with beautiful art work and lots of facts about different animals written to engage a young reader.)  This week we are learning to use apostrophes for possession and will begin to write our own information pages about a sea animal.

We will continue to practise our joined handwriting and spellings.  We are currently finishing the Year 2 spelling programme (each class is at a slightly different point with this).  We will let you know when we begin the Year 3 programme and we will have a weekly focus across the 3 classes and 6 tricky words to learn each week.

We have added the Year 1 & 2 tricky words and the Year 3 and 4 tricky words as a document in the Blog so that you can see if there are any words from the Year 1 & 2 list which your child is still finding tricky.  These would be good ones to focus on.

Reading

Your child should be bringing home a reading book from school each day, and a new Reading Record booklet.    We really appreciate your support hearing your child read daily at home.   Please can you record the reading they have done in their reading booklet. We are using a Accelerated Reader in school. Every half term, the children are tested on their reading and comprehension skills, and given a ‘reading zone’ of appropriate books to choose from.  Every time they finish a book, they complete a quiz which tests how well they have understood it.

Science

Our current Science unit is all about skeletons and muscles.  This week, we’ll carry out an investigation which will link with our measuring skills in maths.  Will the tallest children have the longest bones?

 R.E.

Our current unit is: ‘What do Christians learn from the Creation Story?  This week we consider whether believing in God, or having any other faith makes a difference to our lives and whether you need to have a faith to look after the planet?

Art

We are learning about cave paintings.  We have been drawing our own cave style animals and then scaling them up using charcoal.  This week we will make our own paints!

Geography

Our Geography work this half term is ‘How can we live more sustainably?’ This week we are looking at the different ways in which electricity is generated and how some of these ways are more sustainable than others.

Making Monster Book Marks !

Below here is last year's planning !

Weeks Commencing 11^th & 18th July 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be taking 2 weeks to learn about mass and capacity.  The key skills we are covering are shown in these video links:

measure mass: https://vimeo.com/556159306

add + subtract mass: https://vimeo.com/560858593

measure capacity: https://vimeo.com/560872737

add + subtract capacity: https://vimeo.com/564668883

English

We will be writing a persuasive letter and including these skills:

• Use paragraphs to structure.
• Use a range of conjunctions to link ideas within sentences.
• Use emotive noun phrases to persuade.

Greater Depth expectation: adapt vocabulary and grammatical structures so that they are appropriate for the intended reader.

Spellings

We have finished our Year 3 spelling programme for the year and so we will be now looking at the areas which come up in the children’s writing.  We will also be focusing on editing for spellings in English, using the Year1,2, 3 &4 spelling lists, and dictionaries.

Reading

Our whole class reading this half term is ‘Beasts of Olympus’ with an Ancient Greece theme.  We will be reading it together during our daily whole class reading sessions.

Science

We will be learning about forces and magnets this half term.  During the next 2 lessons we will be creating a magnetic game.

 R.E.

During the next 2 weeks we will be looking at pictures and mini biographies of Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and considering: Who were they? What did they do? what impact have they had?

DT

This half term, we are designing and making ‘seasonal tarts’.  We are planning and will be making our fruit tart to eat at a small Y3 picnic to celebrate the hard work children have put in to the year.

Weeks Commencing 27^th June & 4^th July 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be taking 2 weeks to learn about shape.  The key skills we are covering are shown in these video links:

Right angles in shapes: https://vimeo.com/549181115

Draw accurately: https://vimeo.com/553041402

Horizontal and Vertical: https://vimeo.com/553042103

Parallel and Perpendicular: https://vimeo.com/554200617

Recognise and describe 2D shapes: https://vimeo.com/554200872

Recognise and describe 3D shapes: https://vimeo.com/554201297

Make 3D shapes: https://vimeo.com/554201688

English

We will combine our plans for DT with writing recipe instructions for making a fruit tart.  The skills we are focusing on are:

• Use Imperative (‘bossy’) verbs.
• Use prepositional phrases to add detail.
• Use adverbs to sequence.
• Use adverbs to give the reader detail.
• Use an informative tone (Greater Depth)
• Use complex sentences to convey detailed information (Greater Depth

Spellings

We have finished our Year 3 spelling programme for the year and so we will be now looking at the areas which come up in the children’s writing.  We will also be focusing on editing for spellings in English, using the Year1,2, 3 &4 spelling lists, and dictionaries.

Reading

Our whole class reading this half term is ‘Beasts of Olympus’ with an Ancient Greece theme.  We will be reading it together during our daily whole class reading sessions.

Science

We will be learning about forces and magnets this half term.  During the next 2 lessons we will be focusing on magnets.

 R.E.

During the next 2 weeks we will be considering the 10 commandments and reflecting upon our personal responsibility for making good choices.  We will also be looking at the lives of different religious leaders and considering the difference they have made.

DT

This half term, we are designing and making ‘seasonal tarts’.  We have looked at which fruit and vegetables grow best in different climate zones, and how the UK fruit and vegetables are seasonal.  Now we are learning about food hygiene and safety and planning what we will put in our tart.  Our aim is to bake a fruit tart to eat at a small Y3 picnic to celebrate the hard work children have put in to the year.

Weeks Commencing Wednesday 8^th and Monday 13^th June 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

Time:   Please support your child to be able to tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks.  They also need to know time facts such as seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in each month…  They will learn about the 24 hour clock and how to calculate the duration of time from a start and finish point.

Months and years: https://vimeo.com/539560205

Hours in a day: https://vimeo.com/542519189

Telling the time to 5 minutes: https://vimeo.com/542519509

Telling the time to 1 minute: https://vimeo.com/542538362

am and pm: https://vimeo.com/542538987

24 hour clock: https://vimeo.com/545480332

Finding the duration: https://vimeo.com/545481698

English

We will be immersing ourselves in following and giving instructions!  We’ll do this with some art and outdoor P.E. style activities, before looking at some written instructions about ‘How to wash your elephant’, and working out what are the features and skills we will need to include when we begin writing our own instructions. 

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

possess, possession, probably, potatoes, pressure, possible

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the prefix ‘super-‘

Reading

Our whole class reading this half term is ‘Beasts of Olympus’ with an Ancient Greece theme.  We will be reading it together during our daily whole class reading sessions.

Science

We will be learning about forces and magnets this half term.  We will be using force meters to record the force needed to move objects on different surfaces.

 R.E.

This week we will be considering why the world is not always a good place.

Art

When we have finished our tie dye weaving from before half term, we will be moving on to our new DT project about making a Seasonal Tart.  We’ll begin by looking at seasonal and local produce.

This week, we will be taking a walk to the quay and around our local area to consider the changes that have taken place over time.  This is in the school day, and will only be for about 1 1/2 hours.  School uniform,  snack, water bottle and normal lunch arrangents.

On Friday afternoon the school is celebrating the Queen's jubillee.  Year 3 will be entertaining the other children and staff with Morris Dancing !   

Week Commencing 23rd May 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will spend a few weeks learning about time this week.  Any support you can give your child in being able to tell the time would be fantastic.   Also, they need to know:

• How many seconds in a minute, minute in an hour,  hours in a day ….
• The number of days in each month (and the order of the months)
• Be able to read the time in analogue and digital
• Know the 24hour clock   e.g.  1.30pm is also 13.30

 nglish

We will make sure we have finished our Blue John story and then we will edit a piece of writing to correct it for punctuation and spelling errors.  We will also try to improve some of the vocabulary which has been used to make it more interesting for the reader.

Towards the end of the week, our writing will link to the Queen’s jubilee celebrations. 

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

reign, remember, sentence, separate, special, straight

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the prefix ‘super-‘

Reading

Our whole class reading this half term is in the form of a carousel of activities.  Children explore a text during their first session, and then read this with their class teacher the next day.  Following this, they have questions to answer about the text.  The following 2 days they read for pleasure.

Science

We will be learning about light this half term.  We will learn about Thomas Edison and Lewis Latimer who led the development of the light bulb.

R.E.

This week we will be asking the children ‘What would you like to see in our World today?’

Art

This half term we will be tie dying and weaving.  We have tie died our material and are now weaving it.  Hopefully, it will be coming home soon!

Geography

We will be taking a short walk down to the quay and around our local area to consider what changes have taken place over time.

Week Commencing 16^th May 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

Fractions: We continue with our learning linked to fractions.

(Next week we will spend a week focused on learning about time.)

Fractions of a set of objects: https://vimeo.com/530231902

Fractions on a number line:  https://vimeo.com/527705765

Equivalent fractions:

https://vimeo.com/530232479 

https://vimeo.com/530232763     

https://vimeo.com/530232763

English

We are writing our own beginning of a story based on the book ‘Blue John’ by Berlie Doherty.  We are including similes and making interesting verb choices to interest the reader. 

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

ordinary, particular, peculiar, perhaps, popular, position

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the prefix ‘anti-‘

Reading

Our whole class reading this half term is in the form of a carousel of activities.  Children explore a text during their first session, and then read this with their class teacher the next day.  Following this, they have questions to answer about the text.  The following 2 days they read for pleasure.

Science

We will be learning about light this half term.  We will learn about shadows – how they are made and how their size changes during the day and with the distance from a light source.

 R.E.

This week we will be considering the role of a church in supporting it’s community.

Art

This half term we will be tie dying and weaving.  We have tie died our material and are practising weaving with paper, before we finally weave our tie dyed material and other fabrics.

Week Commencing 3^rd May 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

Fractions: We’ll be learning about tenths this week.

Find a third: https://vimeo.com/515216707

Making tenths: https://vimeo.com/521487313

Tenths as decimals: https://vimeo.com/521489678

English

Last week, we familiarised ourselves with our new book ‘Blue John’ by Berlie Doherty.  This week we will be looking at the author’s choice of verbs and similes.  We’ll have a go at writing our own similes.  We’ll video ourselves playing and then write a description using interesting verbs (making sure we use the correct verb tense too).

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

naughty, notice, occasion, occasionally, opposite, often

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the prefix ‘re-‘

Reading

Our whole class reading this half term is in the form of a carousel of activities.  Children explore a text during their first session, and then read this with their class teacher the next day.  Following this, they have questions to answer about the text.  The following 2 days they read for pleasure.

Science

We will be learning about light this half term.  We will learn about reflection, and we will test out how reflective different materials and surfaces are.

 R.E.

We will be exploring the questions ‘How did Jesus call his disciples?’

Art

This half term we will be tie dying and weaving.  We will continue our mood boards and tie dye our materials. 

Week Commencing 4^th April 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

This week we will be assessing the children’s learning of length, before beginning a unit of work on fractions.  We’ll begin by refreshing the children’s Year 2 learning.  These videos link with the first few lessons that we’ll be covering before the Easter holidays.

Find a half:  https://vimeo.com/511156128

Find a quarter: https://vimeo.com/513814593

Find a third: https://vimeo.com/515216707

English

We have finished our Grendel story and will have a few lessons about using adverbs in the lead up to the Easter holidays.  We will be focusing on adverbs which tell the reader how something is happening, e.g.  slowly, happily, carefully, quietly…

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

important, island, knowledge, length, learn, interest

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ion’

Reading

We will be finishing reading ‘The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales’ by S J King. 

Science

We will be consolidating ourlearning about food and nutrition in humans and other animals by creating a ‘schema’ for next year’s Year 3 children.   A schema is similar to a mind map, and helps the children’s learning to ‘stick’.  We use schema to show the children what they are learning in each unit, and re-visit it each lesson to help consolidate their learning.  We continue to learn the vocabulary:

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jews’    We will be learning about Moses and the Passover festival.

DT

This half term we have been designing and making cushions.  We hope to bring them home at the end of the week!

Thank you for the money you donated to the families of Ukraine when you came to our recent assembly.  We raised just over £100 in cash donations only.  More donations were made via the link in our newsletter.  Thank you so much !

We were all so proud of the children during their recent assembly.  We know that not everyone is able to get to these events during the school day, so the PowerPoint below will give you a flavour of the assembly's content.

Week Commencing 14^th March 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We have been learning about length. These videos will show you what the children have been learning:

Equivalent lengths (M and cm) https://vimeo.com/504467081

Equivalent lengths (mm and cm https://vimeo.com/504918866

Compare lengths  https://vimeo.com/506146737

This week, we will be using the NFER booklets to check in with how the children are progressing with their learning of Maths in Year 3. 

English

This week, we will remind ourselves about the rules for punctuating speech and apply these when we write the beginning of our own Grendel style story.

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

heard, heart, height, history, imagine, increase

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ly’

Reading

We are reading ‘The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales’ by S J King.  This week we will also be checking in on the children’s reading progress using Accelerated Reader and the NFER booklets.

 Science

We will be learning about food and nutrition in humans and other animals.  We continue to learn the vocabulary:

Nutrition, nutrients, carbohydrates, sugars, protein, vitamins, minerals, fibre, fat, water.

We will ask why we need protein and carbohydrates and what foods provide these. Then we will be looking at a variety of animals and considering what they eat.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jews’    We have talked about what we know about Judaism and watched a video clip of a child explaining what Judaism means to him.

This week, we will learn what happens at the Jewish New Festival of Rosh Hashanah.

DT

This half term we will be designing and making cushions.  This week, we will re-cap how to use a running stitch which we learned in Year 2 and will then try our hand with cross stitch.

Week Commencing 28^th February 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be continuing our learning about statistics with bar graphs and tables.  These video links will show you more:

Bar graphs: https://vimeo.com/502337848

Tables: https://vimeo.com/502338566

English

We will be writing a short story over the next 3 weeks, base upon the book ‘Grendel: a Cautionary Tale about Chocolate!’  by David Lucas.   It’s a lovely book, and we will spend our first few lessons reading it and getting to know it.   When we start writing, we will be learning about speech punctuation, and using? and! to punctuate sentences.

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

experiment, extreme, favourite, famous, February, forward

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ly’

It’s different if the root word ends in le. Then we swap the le for ly.

humble + ly = humbly

Here are some more words where we need to swap the le for ly:

Reading

We will return to whole class guided reading this term, focusing on ‘The Secret Explorers and the Lost Whales’ by S J King

Science

We will be learning about food and nutrition in humans and other animals.  This week we will re-cap our learning from Year 2, introduce our key vocabulary for this unit:

Nutrition, nutrients, carbohydrates, sugars, protein, vitamins, minerals, fibre, fat, water.

Then we will consider what purposes food has for humans.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jews’

This week, we will learn what happens at the Jewish New Festival of Rosh Hashanah.

DT

This half term we will be designing and making cushions.  This week, we will re-cap how to use a running stitch which we learned in Year

Week Commencing 14^th February 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be starting a 2week block of learning about statistics (pictograms, tally charts, and bar graphs). These video links will show you more about this week’s learning:

Make tally charts:    https://vimeo.com/500377891

Draw pictograms: https://vimeo.com/500379996

Interpret pictograms: https://vimeo.com/500378019

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English

We complete our journey down the Amazon, following the ‘Rough Guide to the Amazon’. During this Unit we have written a diary entry, letter and fact file, all about a new species of animal we have found on our journey down the Amazon.  The grammar skills we have particularly focused on are:

• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Prepositions

We’ve also continued to support the children to use the skills we have already focused on.  These include structuring the text with paragraphs, expanded noun phrases, writing sentences with more than one clause, subordinating conjunctions, and ensuring accurate punctuation (capitals, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks).

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

heard, hard, height, history, imagine, increase

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ion’

Reading

During whole class guided reading this half term, we will be running a 20 minute carousel of reading activities.  Our focus text for the next 2 weeks is a non-fiction book called about teeth.   Your child will rotate over 5 days, between these activities:

• Reading their Accelerated Reader book
• Reading of their own choice
• Pre guided activity linked to the focus text
• Guided reading group with their teacher
• Post guided activity linked to the focus text

Science

We will be completing our learning about plants and find out how much we’ve learnt.

• Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots; stem/trunk; leaves; and flowers.

 • Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.

• Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.

• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?  We’ll finish our learning this week and reflect on what we’ve learnt.

Art

This half term we will be using our painting skills with colour mixing and different brush strokes, to create a rainforest painting.  We are hoping to create a class painting and to add printing and collage skills towards the end.  This week we will be adding origami butterflies to complete our painting.

Week Commencing 31st January 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be focusing on money.    These video links will show you more:

Convert pounds and pence:    https://vimeo.com/497942634

Add money: https://vimeo.com/498286318

Subtract money: https://vimeo.com/498297373

Give change: https://vimeo.com/499227948

Next week, we will begin a few weeks of statistics, looking a tally charts, pictograms, tables and bar charts.

English

We continue our journey down the Amazon, following the  ‘Rough Guide to the Amazon’. Over the next few weeks we will write a diary entry, letter and fact file, all about a new species of animal we have found on our journey down the Amazon.  The grammar skills we are particularly focusing on are:

• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Prepositions

We will continue to support the children to use the skills we have already focused on.  These include structuring the text with paragraphs, expanded noun phrases, writing sentences with more than one clause, subordinating conjunctions, and ensuring accurate punctuation (capitals, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks).

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

forwards, group, grammar, fruit, guard, guide

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ly’

It’s different if the root word ends in le. Then we swap the le for ly.

humble + ly   = humbly

Here are some more words where we need to swap the le for ly:

Reading

During whole class guided reading this half term, we will be running a 20 minute carousel of reading activities.  Our focus text for the next 2 weeks is a book called ‘The Pea and the Princess’.   Your child will rotate over 5 days, between these activities:

• Reading their Accelerated Reader book
• Reading of their own choice
• Pre guided activity linked to the focus text
• Guided reading group with their teacher
• Post guided activity linked to the focus text

Science

We will be learning about plants.  These are the key things we will be learning about over the next few weeks:

• Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots; stem/trunk; leaves; and flowers.

 • Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.

• Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.

• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

This week we will continue to focus on seed dispersal, and will check to see how our broad bean investigation is going to explore the requirements of plants for growth.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?  We’ll start by exploring what we already know and then will begin to learn about the 5 Pillars of Islam. This week we continue to look  at Ramadan and Eid.

Art

This half term we will be using our painting skills with colour mixing and different brush strokes, to create a rainforest painting.  We are hoping to create a class painting and to add printing and collage skills towards the end.  This week we will be adding printed butterflies to our painted art work.

Week Commencing 24^th January 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be dividing 2-digit numbers by 1 digit.  These video links will show you more:

https://vimeo.com/489849543

https://vimeo.com/489844871

Next week, we will be focusing on money.

English

We begin our journey down the Amazon, reading ‘Rough Guide to the Amazon’.

We will get to know the book, and look at the different text types within it (diary, letter and fact file).

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

experiment, extreme, favourite, famous, February, forward

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ly’

It’s different if the root word ends in le. Then we swap the le for ly.

humble + ly   = humbly

Here are some more words where we need to swap the le for ly:

Reading

During whole class guided reading this half term, we will be running a 20 minute carousel of reading activities.  Our focus text for the next 2 weeks is a book called ‘The Pea and the Princess’.   Your child will rotate over 5 days, between these activities:

• Reading their Accelerated Reader book
• Reading of their own choice
• Pre guided activity linked to the focus text
• Guided reading group with their teacher
• Post guided activity linked to the focus text

Science

We will be learning about plants.  These are the key things we will be learning about over the next few weeks:

• Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots; stem/trunk; leaves; and flowers.

 • Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.

• Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.

• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

This week we will focus on seed dispersal, and will check to see how our broad bean investigation is going to explore the requirements of plants for growth.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?  We’ll start by exploring what we already know and then will begin to learn about the 5 Pillars of Islam. This week we will be looking at Ramadan and Eid.

Art

This half term we will be using our painting skills with colour mixing and different brush strokes, to create a rainforest painting.  We are hoping to create a class painting and to add printing and collage skills towards the end.  This week we will be adding detail to the large leaf shapes we painted last week.

Week Commencing 17^th January 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will consolidate using the grid and column method for multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit, including with exchange.  We will then begin to divide 2-digit numbers by 1 digit.  These video links will show you more:

https://vimeo.com/489849543

https://vimeo.com/489844871

English

Following reading of the book ‘How Dogs Really Work’, will be finish our explanations of how our chosen animals work.  The skills we will be using include:

• Use a range of conjunctions to extend sentences
• Use adverbs
• Use headings and sub-headings
• Use pronouns or nouns to aid cohesion and avoid repetition.

Spellings

This week, we are still continuing with last week’s spellings:

The tricky words to learn this week are:

eight, eighth, earth, enough, exercise, experience

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ous’

Reading

During whole class guided reading this half term, we will be running a 20 minute carousel of reading activities.  Our focus text for the next 2 weeks is a poem called ‘The Penguin in Lost Property’.   Your child will rotate over 5 days, between these activities:

• Reading their Accelerated Reader book
• Reading of their own choice
• Pre guided activity linked to the focus text
• Guided reading group with their teacher
• Post guided activity linked to the focus text

Science

We will be learning about plants.  These are the key things we will be learning about over the next few weeks:

• Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots; stem/trunk; leaves; and flowers.

 • Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.

• Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.

• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

This week we will focus on the life cycle of a plant,  and will check to see how our broad bean investigation is going to explore the requirements of plants for growth.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?  We’ll start by exploring what we already know and then will begin to learn about the 5 Pillars of Islam. This week we will be looking at the importance of mosques to Muslims.

Art

This half term we will be using our painting skills with colour mixing and different brush strokes, to create a rainforest painting.  We are hoping to create a class painting and to add printing and collage skills towards the end.  This week we will be colour blending and adding large leaf shapes to the background we painted last week.

Week Commencing 10^th January 2022

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers and introducing the column method for multiplication.  These video links will show you more:

https://vimeo.com/486513593

https://vimeo.com/489850121

English

Following reading of the book ‘How Dogs Really Work’, will be writing our own explanations of how our chosen animals work.  The skills we will be using include:

• Use a range of conjunctions to extend sentences
• Use adverbs
• Use headings and sub-headings
• Use pronouns or nouns to aid cohesion and avoid repetition.

Spellings

This is a continuation from the first few days back last week.

The tricky words to learn this week are:

eight, eighth, earth, enough, exercise, experience

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ous’

Reading

During whole class guided reading this half term, we will be running a 20 minute carousel of reading activities.  Our focus text for the next 2 weeks is a poem called ‘The Penguin in Lost Property’.   Your child will rotate over 5 days, between these activities:

• Reading their Accelerated Reader book
• Reading of their own choice
• Pre guided activity linked to the focus text
• Guided reading group with their teacher
• Post guided activity linked to the focus text

Science

We will be learning about plants.  These are the key things we will be learning about over the next few weeks:

• Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots; stem/trunk; leaves; and flowers.

 • Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.

• Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.

• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

This week we will focus on the functions of different parts of plants and will plant broad beans as part of a class investigation exploring the requirements of plants for growth.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?  We’ll start by exploring what we already know and then will begin to learn about the 5 Pillars of Islam. This week we will be looking at the focus of prayer.

Art

This half term we will be using our painting skills with colour mixing and different brush strokes, to create a rainforest painting.  We are hoping to create a class painting and to add printing and collage skills towards the end.  This week we will be creating a colourwash for the background.

Week Commencing 3^rd January 2022

Monday 3^rd January: Holiday

Tuesday 4^th January: Non-Pupil Day

Wednesday 5^th January: Back to School!

Home Learning

Please refer to our Home Learning Section of the Year 3 Class Pages.

Maths

We will be refreshing the children’s learning of their X2, X4 and X8; the link between multiplication and division; and related facts – how division facts can be understood from multiplication facts and how we can build on these facts to multiply and divide 2 larger numbers.   These video links will show you more:

Consolidate X2, X4, X8      https://vimeo.com/485432791

Link between division and multiplication   https://vimeo.com/485433674

Related facts  https://vimeo.com/486330232

English

We will refresh our memories about the book ‘How Dogs Really Work’ and will begin to write our own explanations of how our chosen animals work.  The skills we will be using include:

• Use a range of conjunctions to extend sentences
• Use adverbs
• Use headings and sub-headings
• Use pronouns or nouns to aid cohesion and avoid repetition.

Spellings

The tricky words to learn this week are:

eight, eighth, earth, enough, exercise, experience

Our spelling pattern this week is adding the suffix ‘ous’

Reading

During whole class guided reading we will be finishing ‘Cave Challenge’ by Bear Grylls.  The book combines a story with finding out Geographical and Scientific facts about caves.  It is part of a series, so if you child is enjoying it, you could head down to the library to look for more.

Science

We will be learning about plants.  These are the key things we will be learning about over the next few weeks:

• Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots; stem/trunk; leaves; and flowers.

 • Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.

• Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.

• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?  We’ll start by exploring what we already know and then will begin to learn about the 5 Pillars of Islam.

Art

This half term we will be using our painting skills with colour mixing and different brush strokes, to create a rainforest painting.  We are hoping to create a class painting and to add printing and collage skills towards the end.

Week Commencing 13^th December 2021

Here are a few things for you to know about this week!

1.  Our Christmas party is  Wednesday.  Children can bring party clothes to change into after lunch and an afternoon party snack for themselves (e.g. snack and biscuit). Please make sure it is nut free and provide for your child only as they will not be allowed to share food due to allergies.
2. Next Thursday is the school Christmas jumper (non-uniform) day and Christmas lunch.  We’re also celebrating our English and DT work.  The children want to have a pyjama party to share their fantastic stories!  Therefore, on Thursday, children can also bring pyjama bottoms to get changed into!

Thank you for your support and our Best Wishes for the Christmas holiday,

The Year 3 Team

Home Learning

Please continue reading during the Christmas holiday. Enjoy the Christmas break with family and have fun!   

Maths

We will be checking how well children have understood the multiplication and division work we have taught and then we will enjoy some Christmas Maths fun!

English

We will be writing to the Elves and asking them why they are creating so much mischief in our Year 3 central area.  We’ll write a Christmas Kenning and share our Beastie stories with each other.

Reading

During whole class guided reading we will be finishing ‘Cave Challenge’ by Bear Grylls.  The book combines a story with finding out Geographical and Scientific facts about caves.  It is part of a series, so if you child is enjoying it, you could head down to the library to look for more.

Science

We will be learning about rocks and fossils this half term.  This week we will be focusing on soils and drainage.

 R.E.

Our big question for this half term is: ‘What is it like to follow God?  This week and next, we will be looking at the Christmas story and what it means to Christians. 

Design and Technology

This half term we will be creating levers and linkages in cards.  We have been making different mechanisms and have designed our final work which links with our Beasties story.  We will be making our finished piece which links with our Beastie story.  It should be coming home to you by the end of the week!

Week Commencing 6^th December 2021

Home Learning

Please have a look at the information in our Home Learning yellow star which is in the Year 3 class pages menu. 

Maths

We will be learning about multiplication and division.  Whilst we continue to practise the quick recall of times table facts on a daily basis, our maths lessons will look in more depth at multiplication and division and how we can apply these skills to solve problems.  This week we will look at multiplication and division using the 4 and 8 X tables.

These videos will show you how the children will learn this. 

Multiply by 4:

https://vimeo.com/476320465

Divide by 4:

https://vimeo.com/477072164

Multiply by 8:

https://vimeo.com/480761211