Welcome to Year 3!
Year 3 Staffing
Mrs Gaunt - Teacher (Rex Class )
Mrs Derbyshire - Teacher (Rex Class)
Miss Jamil - Teaching Assistant (Rex Class)
Miss Prins- Teacher (Slinky Class)
Mrs Wall - HLTA (Slinky Class)
Mrs Barzinji - Teaching Assistant (Slinky)
Miss Begum - Teaching Assistant (Slinky)
Spring B - What was it like to walk in an Ancient Egyptian's shoes?
In English - For the first four weeks we will start our new and exciting topic of mystery in the unit of narrative. Our text will be 'The Great Paper Caper' by Oliver Jeffers. In this unit children will develop the reading skills of prediction based on details stated; discuss and sequence events; raise and answer questions linked to characters; analyse the plot structure of a mystery story; identify text type features of mystery. Their skills in gathering content will be stretched as children will be able to develop ideas for a new mystery story and plot these within a story planner; use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech. Planning and writing skills will develop as Children will be able to write a mystery with an opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending, which includes text type features and focus skills.
Weeks 5 to 6 will focus on our topic of poetry and more specifically, poems with a structure and our text will be Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems Hardcover – 22 by Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy.
In terms of reading skills, children will be able to explore and collect word families; identify the layout of a poem and how it reflects the theme; read poems and present with intonation and expression; identify words and phrases which capture interest; discuss words and phrases which reflect the theme of a poem; identify and discuss words and phrases e.g. specific nouns, adjectives, similes. While using their gathering content skills, Children will be able to develop appropriate ideas and vocabulary. Using their writing skills, children will be able to write a poem with a structure, which includes appropriate language selected from word banks/families and features of shape poems or calligrams.
In Maths- This term in maths for the first two weeks, we will carry on with our topic of fractions which we have already started at the end of last term. We will begin by understanding the whole before moving on to comparing and ordering fractions. Additionally, we will count in fractions and by the end we will explore and understand equivalent fractions. In the second half of this term we will move on to our unit of mass and capacity. This topic will teach us about how to measure different amounts including the use of scales. We will also look at measuring mass in grams and kilograms before working on understanding volume and how to calculate it.
History - We will continue from Spring A our topic of Ancient Egypt! The questions we will answer are: What was mummification in Ancient Egypt? Who were the Ancient Egyptian gods? What did Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics mean? What was discovered inside Tutankhamun’s tomb? We will end the unit with a quiz of everything we have learnt.
In Science-This half term we will be studying the topic of light.
In RE - Our big question is- Why are festivals important to religious communities? We will look at the religious beliefs of Christians & Hindus.
In Music- The dragon song by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman. This is a song about kindness, respect, friendship, acceptance and happiness.
In IT- We will learn about Yes or No questions when it comes to databases.
In PE –We will develop our gymnastic skills for indoor PE. For outdoor PE we will learn how to play netball.
MFL-We will learn how to say the names of animals in Spanish.
DT- In DT we will be developing our textiles skills by making Egyptian wall hangings!
Homework
Children are expected to practise reading their reading book for ten minutes every day. A parent or carer will need to sign their reading record once they have listened to their child read. Children will be given weekly spellings each Friday and they will need to learn these spellings for their spelling test which will take place the following Friday. Children will also be given Maths tasks to complete and be expected to practice timetables on TT Rock stars daily.
PE Kits.
Children have PE once a week for 2 hours. This will incorporate an indoor PE session and then an outdoor session.
Both classes can come into school on Thursday in correct PE kit. This is plain black joggers/leggings, a plain white T-shirt and a plain black hoodie/jacket as well as plain black trainers. Shoes MUST NOT be worn for safety reasons.
Keep up to date with news about this half term with our class newsletters.
Here are a few useful videos, very popular with year 3, that will help the children with various aspects of English & Grammar!
Nouns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldeqKZvBpNs
Verbs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caxLA9HWQ5M
Adjectives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bXWY1nioE
Adverbs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfenLGAYDeg
Inverted commas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHyHMfjh1us
Commas (lists) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVHbN26z9A
Here are a few useful videos, very popular with year 3, that will help the children with various aspects of Maths!
Counting to 100 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc
Counting in 3's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxPKnLtnus
Counting in 5's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxVL9KUmq8
Greater than, less than, equal to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Efzu2sl
