Year 3
Welcome to Year 3 and to Key Stage 2!
We will be updating this page weekly to let you know what we have coming up the following week. We will also add any other key news.
WB 07.10.24
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We are going to be starting a poetry unit of work this week by looking at nonsense poems. We will start by looking at what a nonsense poem is. We will then think about what makes a good performance and will perform a nonsense poem to the class in a group. We will also be identifying rhyming words. We will be continuing to read George’s Marvellous Medicine and work through reading VIPERS comprehension questions. GAPs – We will continue with our focus on coordinating conjunctions. Spellings – our focus is using the suffix ‘ly’
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In maths this week we will be continuing with our work on addition and subtraction. We will be:
Please have a look at the calculation policies on the curriculum area of the website if you would like guidance on how we teach these methods. |
ICT – our new unit is stop frame animation. We will be looking at how a sequence of pictures can appear to move and will create our flip-book style animation. Science – We are continuing our science topic of ‘Our amazing bodies’. This week we will be looking at the different muscles in our body and what they do. Outdoor PE (Tuesday) - we will continue with football. Indoor PE (Thursday) - we will be continuing our unit on gymnastics. PSHE - relationships and working together. Music – This term our music topic is pulse. RE – Our RE unit for the half term is answering the question ‘What do Christians learn from the creation story?’. DT – We will be coming up with our final design idea for our healthy sandwich snack, drawing an annotated sketch and begin to think about the main stages of making. Geography – we will be looking at the main counties and districts of the UK |
Curriculum Evening
Please click here to access our slides from Curriculum evening
Reading
All children are expected to read at least 3 times a week at home to an adult and have their diary signed. They can change their reading book whenever they would like to, just bring it to one of the adults in the classroom. We monitor all reading at home on a weekly basis and award house points for consistent reading at home. Please ensure children bring their reading book and diary to school on a daily basis. Thank you.
We work on reading comprehension in class during a weekly 'VIPERS' session. The children read a piece of text and then answer a range of comprehension questions in sentences based on what they have read.
Here is an example and the meaning of 'VIPERS' questions below.
PE
Our PE days are: Tuesdays (outdoor) and Thursdays (indoor). Please ensure named PE kit is in school for these sessions.
Children can come to school in their outdoor PE kit on a Tuesday as we will be doing outdoor PE first thing. Please ensure they have their school uniform, including their school shoes in their PE bag on this day.
Please ensure girls have a pair of socks in their PE bags, especially for when they are wearing tights.
A carrier bag for wet/muddy trainers is also useful inside a PE bag.
Homework
Homework is set on a Friday and due in the following Thursday. Any homework sheets can be taken home and brought back to school using the homework folder.
Pencil case
Children may wish to bring in one named pencil case. Some things they might like to include are: pencil, rubber, sharpener, coloured pen (any) for when we self mark our work, Pritt Stick, small ruler and a few colouring pencils. Of course, all of these things are provided by school anyway, some children just like to bring their own. Please name each item to avoid anything getting lost. Thank you.
Pens
At some point in Year 3 or 4, children will be awarded their pen licence and will be able to write in a pen. We are looking for consistent joined, neat handwriting.
Spellings
We will conduct our weekly spelling sessions on a Friday. Children will bring home a list of spellings to learn and spelling related homework which will be due in and tested the following Friday.
The Year 1 and 2 common exception words that all children should know how to spell by Year 3 can be found in the link below.
Year 1 and 2 common exception words
The Year 3 and 4 common exception words are words that we will be learning this year and next year.
Year 3 and 4 common exception words
Dance Mat Typing
This is a fantastic resource to improve your typing skills. You can practise at home, but you will need a keyboard for this (either on a laptop/desktop computer or a wireless one connected to a tablet).
Computing KS2 - Dance Mat Typing - BBC Bitesize
Year 3 Long term plan
Click here to open an overview of the year
Year 3 general information
Times tables
We encourage all children to practise their tables at home via Times Tables Rock Stars. We organise weekly tournaments between the classes.
In Year 4, the children will complete a times tables test. They need to know all their times tables up to 12 x 12 and answer them as quickly as possible (ideally quicker than 6 seconds).
Snacks and water bottles
Please ensure your child has a snack and water bottle in school daily. Key stage 2 children no longer receive funded fruit. Please name snack boxes and water bottles. Thank you.
We also look forward to sharing with you what we have been up to in the classroom. Look out for tweets from Year 3 on the Woodland Grange Twitter feed.
We look forward to teaching your children our exciting and creative curriculum.
Our work
We will upload some pictures of our learning onto here.