Welcome to Year 3!

In Year 3, we use the school values to nurture an aspirational, determined, respectful environment which values kindness as a priority. The transition from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 can be quite challenging, but we do all we can to make learning accessible and engaging.

Our curriculum provides children with two PE sessions a week, as well as offering opportunities for expressing their creative side in art and music. We also get 'hands-on' when building and creating in DT!

We have some fantastic topics planned, such as: learning about our local area in geography, investigating the Roman army in history and finding out all about light in science. 

I'm sure we will have a year to remember!

Miss Fox

General Information

Monday	Change reading books
Tuesday
Wednesday	PE
Thursday
Friday	PE Spelling test Homework due and new homework set

Autumn term in Year 3

Art - Flower sketches inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe

DT - Taste testing and designing a seasonal tart

Computing - Online safety, spreadsheets and coding

French - Greetings, shapes and adjectives

Geography - Why do people live near volcanoes?

History - Would you prefer to live in the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age?

Music - Ballads and composing for animations

PSHE - Families & relationships and health & wellbeing

RE - What makes us human? Where do our morals come from?

Science - Skeletons and rocks

Writing - Writing a poem, recount and a narrative

Maths - Place value, addition & subtraction and multiplication & division

Reading in Year 3

Reading holds the key to the whole curriculum. In Year 3, we read every day in class and ask you to read every day at home.

We expect that you use Oxford Reading Buddy to access books and comprehension activities at your reading level or spend at least 10 minutes reading with an adult at home.

Our class novels this year will be:

Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
The Witches by Roald Dahl	The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo	Stig of the Dump by Clive King	Stitch Head by Guy Bass	Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne	The Iron Man by Ted Hughes

Homework in Year 3

• Spellings: practise on Spelling Frame for a test every Friday

• Reading: Oxford Reading Buddy or reading with an adult

• Worksheet: usually a grammar worksheet, but sometimes maths relevant to what we are currently learning

• Times Table Rock Stars: 15 minutes per week

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