Year 3

Mrs Drysdale

Welcome to Year 3!

Welcome to the Year 3 class page! Here you will find everything you need to support your child’s learning.

PE days are Tuesday and Thursday, please come to school in your school uniform and we will change into our PE uniform for the lesson. PE uniform can be brought into school and left on your child’s peg for the half term and consists of a plain white polo shirt/t-shirt, black shorts, black leggings or plain black tracksuit bottoms. trainers/pumps and a red fleece/jumper/cardigan for outdoor PE.

Spellings are sent home every Friday for your child to practise throughout the week as homework. Spelling assessments will take place every Friday.

Reading books will be changed as frequently as your child reads them. They have the opportunity to change them at the end of every school day. It would be greatly beneficial to your child if you read at home daily for ten minutes throughout the year.

Please come back to our class page regularly for updates about your child’s learning and if you need to contact me, please press the button on the right and start your message FAO Mrs Drysdale. Alternatively, contact the office and leave a message and I will get back to you ASAP.

What are we learning?

In English…

We are reading the book ‘The Shaman’s Apprentice’ by Lynne Cherry and Mark Plotkin. During this half term, we will be recapping using ‘a’ and ‘an’ and using paragraphs as a way of grouping material. Additionally, we will continue our learning in using wider conjunctions and figurative language to enhance description. This learning will help us to develop our writing skills and prepare us to write a character description, narrative and poetry.

In Maths…

Throughout the year we are always consolidating our prior knowledge. The start of the term we will learn about length, mass, volume and capacity and this will lead into money. The final part of this term and the start of summer 1 we will be learning about time. As always, times tables are an important part of fluency as we head towards the Statutory Multiplication Check in Year 4 and time tables will be practised often in class. Additionally, why not practise on TT Rockstars and challenge yourself and friends?

In Science…

During the Spring term we will continue with our learning of forces and magnets. This will be followed by animals including humans, were we will be learning about the structure of the human skeleton and how muscles work alongside the skeleton. We will then investigate different animal skeletons and finally we will look at nutrition and the importance of a healthy diet.

In RE…

During this term, Year 3 will start their learning with ‘Jesus, the man who changed us’. We will be investigating the impact Jesus had, has and continues to have on people’s lives. This will be followed with exploring the joy and sadness of Easter. We will be thinking about the feelings evoked by the different events throughout Holy Week. We will explore how the different services held in churches reflect the sadness and joy and further develop our understanding of the concept of salvation.

In Topic…

Spring term is a Geography term where we will ask the question… ‘Does it always rain in the Rainforests?’ We will begin with exploring our geographical and fieldwork skills, followed with extending our knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to include the United Kingdom and South America.

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