Welcome to Year 3!

Hello and welcome to our Year 3 page.

Here you will find useful website links, top tips and most importantly, dates for your diary! There is also a photo gallery so that you can see what we have been up to.

The Year 3 Team

3A Class Teacher - Mrs Atkinson

3B Class Teacher - Mrs Duncan

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Sanderson

3A Science Teacher - Mrs Main

3B Science Teacher - Mrs Eastwood

Lunch Supervisor - Mrs Cowlan

Happy Easter!

We hope you have had a wonderful Easter. We have a lot of exciting learning happening this term, read on to find what wonderful things we will be doing in term 5 and 6.

The Year Three Curriculum

Below you will find a number of documents to support our learning in Year 3. The curriculum objectives, or 'milestones' document, shows what the children will be learning across all subjects throughout the whole of year three. You will also be able to find the Autumn Curriculum Newsletter which details what we are learning this term in year three. 

Knowledge Organisers

Learning Focus: Term 5 and 6

• English Theme: 'Life on the Farm'

    Writing focus: Diary Entry

• Maths: Angles, Shape and lines
• History: Ancient Egypt "Why do we see Ancient Egypt as a great civilisation?"
• Geography: Rio and South East Brazil
• Art: Textiles - Cross Stitch
• DT: Mechanisms - Pullies
• RE: Term 5 - Why do Christians call the day Jesus died, Good Friday? Term 6 - What does it mean to live a good life?
• Computing: Term 5 - Desktop publishing, creating media. Term 6 - Events and actions in programmes, Scratch.
• French: Term 5 - Fruits. Term 6 - 'I can'
• Music: Bringing us together - How can our friendships help us with composition?
• Term 5 - P.E (Indoor) Athletics (Outdoor) Orienteering
• Term 6 - P.E (Indoor) Yoga (Outdoor) Cricket  

Trips

Term 1: Wild Woodcraft – This is an outdoor experience trip to support our history learning of the Stone Age. 

Term 6: Egyptian Exhibit – we will visit the Egyptology exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to support our history learning about Egyptians.

Homework

Term 5 and 6 - There are four weekly tasks to be completed for homework.

1. Read to an adult at home at least three times a week for a minimum of 10 minutes.
2. Log in to Times Table Rockstars. Over the week please spend at least 10 minutes playing in the Garage section of the App as this has the bespoke timetables for your child.
3. Spellings should be practised at home. Children will be sent home with the appropriate spellings to be practised throughout the year.
4. Homework activities in homework books to be completed. Homework issued on the Friday will be due back the following Thursday.

PE

Both classes will participate in two PE session per week. In Term 5 and 6, both lessons will be on Monday afternoons.

Please ensure that your child has the correct kit, a list is in the front of their reading diaries if you have any queries.

Children will get changed at school before their lesson on a Thursday, PE kits will be sent home to be washed at the end of the day. They must be returned on a Monday morning.

Children will be taking part in the daily mile. They will not need to bring in additional P.E kit for this and it will take place throughout the normal daily timetable.

Reading Diaries

Reading diaries must be in school every day.

Please ensure that you sign the reading record every time your child reads and what pages they have read. They will not be able to change their book if their reading record is not signed.

Dates for Your Diary

Monday 17th April 2023 - Back to School after Easter

Monday 8th May 2023 - King's Coronation 

If you have any problems or questions, please do get in contact via 'Class Dojo'. We are more than happy to help!