Year 3

Welcome to Year 3!

Welcome to our class page.

I am delighted to be your child’s teacher this year and am really looking forward to the exciting year ahead.

Working alongside me this year I have Mrs Cook, who will be covering my PPA time on a Wednesday morning. We are also lucky to be supported by Mrs Farmer who will be supporting groups and individuals within the class.

If you have any concerns or questions, please do arrange a meeting with me via the office, where I will give you a call or arrange a meeting with you. Additionally, I am available for a quick chat on the playground most days after school. Alternatively, you can write a message in your child’s reading diary and ask your child to show me.

I am greatly looking forward to working with you this year to make your child’s education enjoyable, exciting and rewarding.

Kind regards,

Miss Tierney

Year 3 Class Teacher

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Autumn Term

Religious Education

This term in RE the children will be learning about Creation and what Christians learn from the Creation story in Autumn 1 followed by Light as a symbol of celebration in Autumn 2.

Creation:

In our Creation topic the children will be learning:

To place the concepts of God and Creation on a timeline of the Bible’s ‘Big Story’.
To make clear links between Genesis 1 and what Christians believe about God and Creation.
To describe what Christians do because they believe God is Creator. (For example, follow God, wonder at how amazing God’s creation is; care for the earth in some specific ways.
To ask questions and suggest answers about what might be important in the creation story for Christians living today, and for people who are not Christians.
To offer suggestions about what the story of Adam and Eve might show about human nature and how to act.
To describe how and why Christians might pray to God, say sorry and ask for forgiveness.
To make links between what stories in the Bible say about human beings and pupils’ own ideas about how people should behave.

Light

In our Light topic the children will be learning:

To understand that light is a symbol of many celebrations.
To explain why light is significant in the festival of Diwali.
To retell the story of Rama and Sita.
To explain why Hindus light lamps.
To explain the story of Chanukah.
To explain why light is significant in the festival of Chanukah.
To explain why light is significant at Advent.
To identify what each advent candle represents.
To understand and explain why Christians call Jesus the light of the world.
To identify and explain the similarities and differences between festivals of light.

English

This term we will to work on building up the children's vocabulary which can always be further extended by the children reading a wide range of texts. Specifically, we will we focusing on three texts this term: Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura and Stone Girl Bone Girl by Laurence Anholt in Autumn 1 followed by Ice Palace by Robert Swindells in Autumn 2. These texts provide a fabulous link between our topics in Science, Humanities and DT and function to support and reinforce the children's learning.

Grammar

During our English lessons, we dedicate time to reinforce the children's SPAG, this term we will be teaching and reinforcing the following:

Expanded noun phrases
Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Inverted commas
Direct speech
Adverbials of manner and time
Fronted adverbials
Prepositions
Subordinate clauses
First person pronouns
Figurative language: similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia and alliteration.

Spelling

This term we will be introducing the children to the year 3/4 spelling list, each week they will be taught a new spelling pattern and tested on 10 words following the spelling pattern every Tuesday. Please can I ask that the children are learning their spellings each week, but if your child is struggling with their spellings please let me know. Each child has a copy of their spellings and these are also available on our class page in case the list is misplaced. I will also attach practice strategies to support the children in learning their spellings on our class page each week.

words where the digraph 'ou' makes an 'ow' sound
words where the digraph 'ou' makes an 'u' sound
words where 'y' makes an 'i' sound
words ending in 'sure'
words ending in 'ture'
words containing the 're' prefix
words containing the 'dis' prefix
words containing the 'mis' prefix
words containing the 'ing, ,er, en and ed' suffixes
words containing the 'ai' digraph

Maths

This term in Maths the children will be learning:

To recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number (hundreds, tens and ones)
To identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
To compare and order numbers up to 1000
To read and write numbers up to 1000 in numerals and in words
To find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
To solve number problems and practical problems.
To measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml).
To estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers.
To add and subtract numbers mentally including a three-digit number and ones, tens and hundreds.
To solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction.
To add and subtract numbers with up to three digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction.
To add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts.
To interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
To recognise that angles are a property of shape or a description of a turn.
To identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle.
To draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials.
To identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.

Science

In Science this term the children will be learning about rocks, soils and fossils in Autumn 1 followed by animals, movement and nutrition in Autumn 2.

Rocks, soils and fossils

In our rocks, soils and fossils topic the children will be learning:

To define the term rock.
To Describe the appearance of different rocks, identifying both crystals and grains.
To group rocks by their absorbency, hardness and reaction to acid rain (vinegar).
To list the different factors that break down rocks.
To describe fossil formation and identify fossils in rocks.
To describe the work of a palaeontologist.
To name, describe and compare some different categories of soil.
To list some of the benefits of earthworms to the soil.
To identify and describe the comparative size and weight of the layers in a sedimentation jar.

Animals, movement and nutrition

In our animals, movement and nutrition topic the children will be learning:

To recall the three key functions of the skeleton (movement, support and protection).
To describe a vertebrate, invertebrate, endoskeleton and exoskeleton.
To identify and name the skull, spine, ribs and pelvis on a diagram.
To recall that muscles cause movements in the body, some of which we control by choice and that they cause a movement by shortening and pulling on a bone.
To recall that animals, including humans, need to eat food to survive.
To describe some examples of how energy is used by the body and make comparisons about the energy demands between people.
To list some of the seven nutrient groups, name foods that are good sources of them and describe what they are needed for in the body.
To compare two different meals and explain which is more balanced by naming the nutrient groups and commenting on the relevant proportions.

Spring term

Religious Education

This term in RE the children will be learning about the people of God and what is like to follow God in Spring 1 followed by Easter and does it make sense without Passover in Spring 2.

People of God:

In our People of God topic the children will be learning:

To know how God expects people to live.
To make clear links between the story of Noah and the idea of covenant.
To make simple links between promises in the story of Noah and promises that Christians make at a wedding ceremony.
To make clear links between the story of Noah and Abraham and the concept of faith.
To make clear links between the story of Noah and how we live in school and the wider world.
To make simple links between People of God and how some Christians choose to live in their whole lives and in their church communities.

Easter:

In our Easter topic the children will be learning:

To explain the significance of Easter to Christians.
To explain how and why the special meal of the Last Supper is symbolic.
To explain why the resurrection is so important.
To explain the significance of the sacrifice of Jesus at his crucifixion.
To explain the importance of sacred texts and holy books.

English

This term we will continue to work on building up the children's vocabulary, which can always be further extended by the children reading a wide range of texts. Specifically, we will focus on one text this term: Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit. This text provides a fabulous link between our topics in Science, Humanities and DT and functions to support and reinforce the children's learning.

Grammar

During our English lessons, we dedicate time to reinforcing the children's SPAG. This term we will be teaching and reinforcing the following:

Expanded noun phrases
Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Prepositional phrases
Inverted commas
Direct speech
possessive apostrophes
Adverbials of place, time and manner
Fronted adverbials
Prepositions
Subordinate clauses
First and third person pronouns
Figurative language: similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia and alliteration.
Persuasive language

Spelling

This term we will be continuing to reinforce the children's learning of the year 3/4 spelling list, each week they will be taught a new spelling pattern and tested on 10 words following the spelling pattern every Tuesday. Please can I ask that the children are learning their spellings each week, but if your child is struggling with their spellings please let me know.

words ending in 'ture'
words containing the 're' prefix
words containing the 'dis' prefix
words containing the 'mis' prefix
words containing the 'ing, er, en and ed' suffixes
words containing the 'ai' digraph
words containing the 'ei' digraph
words where the digraph 'ey' makes an ai sound
words containing the suffix ly
homophones
words ending in al
words ending in le

Maths

This term in Maths the children will be learning:

To add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both £ and p in practical contexts.
To interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
To recognise that angles are a property of shape or a description of a turn.
To identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle.
To draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials.
To identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
To measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes.
To recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.
To solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division.
To count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number.
To interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
To solve one-step and two-step questions.
To estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers.
To recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects.
To recognise and use fractions as numbers.
To compare and order fractions with the same denominators.
To recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators.
To add and subtract fractions with the same denominator within one whole.
To solve problems involving fractions of shape.
To order and compare a range of fractions.
To solve mixed worded problems including multi-step.

Science

In Science this term the children will be learning about forces and magnets in Autumn 1 followed by plants and plant reproduction in Autumn 2.

Forces and magnets:

In our forces and magnets topic the children will be learning:

To identify examples of pushes, pulls and twists.
To define a force, including describing, naming and classifying contact and non-contact forces.
To describe the relationship between friction and the roughness of a surface.
To identify examples of friction being useful or not.
To predict attraction and repulsion between like and opposite poles.
To identify examples of magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
To name some examples of types of magnets and compare their strengths.
To describe some examples of the uses of magnets.

Plants and plant reproduction:

In our plants and plant reproduction topic the children will be learning:

To identify what plants need to grow healthily.
To describe the structure and function of the parts of flowering plants.
To investigate how plants transport water.
To describe the life cycle of a flowering plant.
To explain seed dispersal methods.

Helpful websites

Autumn Newsletter

Times Table Rock Stars

Year 3 Maths, Reading and SPAG practise

Spelling Games

Spring Newsletter