Welcome to Year 3!

Your teachers are Mrs Storey (Seoul) and Miss Hillard (Tokyo).

Your teaching assistant is Mr Farrall.

 

Our Spring topic: How has Britain changed since the Stone Age?

 

The books we will be using to inspire our writing in English this term are ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura and Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies

 

            

 

 

Our book for Reading this term is called ‘The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes and This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morporgo.

 

         

 

 

 

Maths

The maths units we will cover are multiplication and division, length and perimeter, fractions, mass and capacity.

Multiplication and Division:

  • Multiples of 10
  • Reasoning about multiplication
  • Multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number (with and without an exchange)
  • Linking multiplication and division
  • Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number (no exchange, flexible partitioning, remainders)
  • Scaling

 

Length and Perimeter:

  • Measure in metres and centimetres
  • Measure in millimetres
  • Equivalent lengths
  • Comparing lengths
  • Adding lengths
  • Perimeter (calculate, measure)

 

Fractions:

  • Understanding unit / non-unit fractions
  • Fractions and scales
  • Fractions on a number line
  • Equivalent fractions

 

 

Mass and Capacity:

  • Using scales
  • Measure in grams / kilograms
  • Comparing mass
  • Measure capacity and volume in litres and millilitres
  • Comparing capacity and volume

 

Times tables focus: 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, 3’s, 4’s and 8’s.

 

 

Useful resources:

We understand the importance of children learning alongside their adults at home, so here are a few resources to help you along the way!

BBC Supermovers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

Hit the button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Times Tables Rockstars: https://play.ttrockstars.com/

PurpleMash: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/wistaston#/portal/wistaston/child

 

 

Other areas of the Curriculum:

 

Science: Rocks (types of rock, fossils, Mary Anning)

History: The Stone Age (Spring 1)

Geography: How has Britain changed since the Stone Age? (Spring 2)

Computing: Spreadsheets, presenting

PSHE: Dreams and Goals, Healthy Me

PE:  Duel, win, lose (GR), Fair, share, dare, Invade, evade, capture (GR) Aim, strike, retrieve

DT: Structures (castles) (Spring 2)

Art: Gestural drawing with charcoal (Stone Age art) (Spring 1)

RE: Is scripture central to religion? What happens if we do wrong?

Music (SV): The Planets, Stone Age Man

French (SV): Animals, Carnival and Numbers

 

PE

This term the Year 3 children will have PE on a Monday with teachers and Thursday with Mr Raiswell.

On these days we ask that children come to school in their PE clothes rather than their school uniform.

 

Weather dependant they can wear their shorts and school coloured PE t-shirt and house PE sweatshirt. If the weather is cold, then tracksuit bottoms/leggings would be more suitable. Trainers are preferable to pumps as it is possible the children may be outdoors for some lessons.

Please ask at the office if you are unsure on the expectations of PE kits.

 

Spellings 

The Y3 spellings will be put onto the learning poster each week. 

 

Homework Expectations

Each week, pupils should be completing the following home practice:

 

Reading

Children are levelled for reading using Accelerated Reader (Star Reader assessment) and have been given a ZPD score to denote the level of books they should be accessing.

They are encouraged to change their own books regularly upon completion and have a go at a quiz on Accelerated Reader to support their comprehension.

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