Reading

Children read their individual reading book with their class teacher or teaching assistant once every two weeks..  Children also take part in whole class Guided Reading sessions 3 times per week.  We also will visit the school library once every two weeks.  Children will take home a school reading book and a reading for pleasure book which as been picked from our classroom library or school library.  We will also enjoy reading a book at story time together each week. We have some exciting novels to read together this term based on our history topic of Stone to Rome.

Guided Reading

We enjoy three whole class Guided Reading sessions per week.  In these sessions we look at a range of different texts, some whole books, some extracts, from both fiction and non fiction.  

We begin each session with a 'Speedy Reading Skills Starter' where we explore some vocabulary which will help us to understand the text.  We then read the text together before answering some questions based on the text, we discuss answers with our partner, then discuss them together as a class.  We finish the Guided Reading session with a solo task where we work individually. 

English

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R.E

During this term in R.E we will be answering:

What is worship?

• I can explain what worship is and why it is important to believers.
• I can gain knowledge and understanding of the main features of Christian worship.
• I can know when the Christian holy day is and what Christians do on that day and why.
• I can identify holy days in other religious traditions.
• I can gain knowledge and understanding of the Church building and its features, their functions and symbolism.
• I can research places of worship in other religious traditions and identify significant features associated with them.
• I can reflect upon and share their own thoughts and feelings about worship.
• I can explore how places of worship bring religious communities together.

What qualities do leaders of religions demonstrate?

• I can gain knowledge and understanding of the qualities of a good leader and consider how they are demonstrated by the leaders/founders of different world faiths.
• I can enquire into the leaders and founders of religious traditions and how they were called by God to lead faith communities.
• I can explore the concept of vocation with reference to leaders and members of faith communities.
• I can enquire into the roles and responsibilities of modern leaders of worship and learning in religious traditions.
• I can reflect on the importance and impact of these leaders in religious communities today.

Year 3 Team 

Teachers:

Mr Parr

Mr McMahon

Teaching Assistants:

Mrs Walsh

Mrs Henry

Notices

Mathematics

  This term sees us kick off with telling the time on an analogue clock to the nearest five minute and nearest minute.  Please continue to practise at home!

  We will then work on Statistics for a couple of weeks, looking carefully at pictograms, how to read and interpret them, and also how to draw them accurately.

  Fractions will take us up to half term, where we will practise finding fractions of shapes and fractions of amounts.

  After half term, we will return to multiplication and division in our written work, learning more-formal methods and using resources to help us understand our work.  We will return to time at the end of the term, looking at the calendar, timetables and digital time.

  Multiplication and division facts will be practised every week.  Children in Year 3 should aim to know 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8x tables by the end of the year.  Please allow time for your child to practise on Times Table Rockstar during the week.

Year 3 in pictures....

National Curriculum 

To view the National Curriculum expectations for Year Three children please click here

Homework

Weekly Homework

Reading for pleasure daily

Reading to an adult 3 times per week

Times Table Practice (Times Table Rockstars)

Practice weekly spellings (Test on Tuesday)

Spellings 

 We teach spelling three times over the week in class, and focus on linking the sound to the spelling.

Please see below for our list of words which the children will need to be able to spell by the end of Year 3.

Science

In Science this half term we will be:

• Identifying different types of rocks 
• Sorting and grouping rock by their properties
• Observing real fossils and investigating how they are formed 
• Learning about Mary Anning's contribution to palaeontology
• Investigating how soil is formed

Our Topic Learning

Geography- Trembling Earth

We will be learning:

To describe what you find underground

To explain how volcanoes are formed

To explain how volcanoes affect peoples lives

To explain what causes earthquakes and hw they are measured

To explain what causes tsunamis and how they affect people

To explain what causes tornadoes and affects they have

To compare geological regions between Italy and the UK 

Computing

In the first half of the Spring term we will be learning all about coding.  The children will be:

• Reviewing previous coding knowledge
• Designing and writing a program that simulates a physical system
• learning about 'if' commands
• Learning how to use variables
• learning how to use repetition
• learning how to debug