Welcome to Year 3!
Your teachers are Mrs Storey (Seoul) and Miss Hillard (Tokyo).
Your teaching assistant is Mr Farrall.
Our topic this Autumn Term is: ‘How Deep is the Ocean?’
English - Writing
Our book to support our writing for this half term is:
During this term, we will be studying the ocean. Coming to England focuses on Floella Benjamin’s journey across the ocean as part of the Windrush generation.
During the second half term we will move on to read:
Our mastery keys (year 3 expectations) for this term are outlined below.
English - Reading
Our new reading book in the first half term is:
Our book in the second half term of autumn is:
Maths
In maths this term we will be focusing on the following concepts:
Place Value
- Representing numbers to 100 and 1000
- Partitioning numbers from 100 to 1000
- Finding 1,10 or 100 less or more
- Counting in 50’s
Addition and Subtraction
- Applying our number bonds to 10
- Add and subtract 1,10 or 100
- Column addition and subtraction with or without exchanges
- Estimation
Multiplication and Division
- Using arrays
- Multiplying and dividing by 3, 4 and 8
- Sharing and grouping
- Making equal groups
Times tables focus: 3x, 4x, 8x
and from Year 2: 2x, 5x, 10x
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
Place Value Basketball: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
BBC School Radio (educational songs/audio books): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007g5y4
Look, cover, write, check (a great spelling game to help practice patterns): https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html
Other areas of the Curriculum:
Science: Animals Including Humans (bones in the body, diet and exercise and nutrients)
PSHE: Being Me in My World
PE: Sports Hall Athletics (Thursday) and Throw, Prepare and Catch (Monday)
DT: Pneumatics (half term 1)
Art: Making Movement (half term 2)
RE: What makes us human?
Music: Love Music Trust - Peter and the Wolf
French: A New Start
Geography: How deep is the ocean?
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.
Year 3 weekly spellings
The Y3 spellings will be on the weekly learning poster, which is emailed out to parents.
Spelling tests this year will be on a Monday, so that the children have the week to learn the rules with their class teachers in school and then the weekend for any additional practice. Please check the test dates on the learning poster each week to ensure children are practising the correct words.
Reading
Children in Year 3 are expected to read with an adult 3 times a week to ensure comprehension and decoding skills are in-line with the books they are reading. A signature in the planner will let us know that this has been done.
Children are encouraged to change their own book upon completion.
Year 3 homework
- Spellings (test every Monday)
- Reading (at least 3 times a week evidenced in their reading diary and signed by a parent/carer)
- 20 mins of TTRS
- Accelerated Reader will be set up for the children later this term.
Thank you for your support!