Autumn 2024

It has been lovely to welcome our new Y3 team as we start our learning journey in our first  term together. The children have settled in so well after the summer break, and we are excited and ready to get started with our fascinating new topics. 

Following our ‘get to know you’ writing tasks, we will be using Stone Age stories to inspire us in our creative writing unit in English. We will be focusing on using interesting and effective vocabulary to capture the attention of our readers. We will also look at the features of recounts before describing our exciting History trip to Creswell Crags.                                                       

Alongside our weekly spellings that can be accessed on Seesaw and EdShed, we will be focusing on GAPS targets including; vowels and consonants, a or an, nouns, adjectives, and verbs. We will continue to read in groups during Guided Reading. We will also follow the adventures of Flat Stanley in our whole class reading sessions, where we will take part in group discussions and complete comprehension tasks.

Our Maths topics this term include; place value, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. We will support our learning in class with the use of concrete apparatus and pictorial representations.                                                                                                                                    

This term’s History topic is Stone Age through to Roman times. We will work to understand the chronology of prehistory and compare the differences in daily life, food and houses. We will also look at the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain. We are looking forward to creating our own versions of Stone Age cave paintings in our Art lessons linked to our topic. 

In Science, we will be participating in investigations to explore the properties of different rocks and soils. In the second half term, we will be learning about magnetism.

Full details of our learning this autumn term in Year 3 can be found here.

Summer 2024

It has been lovely to welcome back our class team as we enter our final term in Year 3. We are looking forward to starting our fascinating new topics and being able to share our fantastic achievements with parents and families. 

In English, our first non-fiction unit focuses on instruction writing and the features used to help guide the reader. We will then move on to descriptive writing inspired by the heartfelt tale ‘The Tin Forest’, where a lonely man’s imagination brings a wasteland to life…

Alongside our weekly spellings that can be accessed on Seesaw and EdShed, we will  be focusing on GAPS targets including; word class (e.g. verbs, adverbs and prepositions), speech punctuation and the use of organisational features, including sub-headings and paragraphs. We will continue to read in groups to develop our reading fluency alongside exploring the mysterious arrival of a strange metal giant in ‘The Iron Man’ during whole class reading.

Our Maths topics this term include; mass and capacity, fractions, money, time and shape. We will support our learning in class with the use of concrete apparatus and pictorial representations.

This term’s Geography topic explores the key question ‘Have we always had towns and cities?’ Following map work using an eight-point compass, we will look at the differences between urban and rural landscapes. We will then explore the purpose and features of national parks.

In Science, we will be  learning about the different parts of a plant and the job each part does. We will then move on to ‘Light’, where we will explore light and dark, reflective surfaces and sun safety.

Our learning overview for the Summer Term can be found here. Our Year 3 homework grid for Summer 2 can be found here.

Spring 2024

It has been lovely to welcome you all back as we start our exciting Spring term in Y3!

In English, our first creative writing unit is based on the short film ‘The Present’. We will be creating our own ‘change of heart’ story to explore our character's thoughts and feelings and their developing relationships with others. We will then move on to planning and producing explanation texts based on earthquakes and volcanoes, alongside our fascinating 'Angry Earth' Geography topic.

Alongside our weekly spellings that can be accessed on Seesaw and EdShed, we will be focusing on GAPS targets including; identifying word classes, speech punctuation and sub-headings in non-fiction texts. We will continue to read in groups during Guided Reading. We will also join Tim on his adventure holiday in ‘Cliffhanger’ during our whole class reading sessions, where we will take part in group discussions and complete comprehension tasks.

Our Maths topics this term include; 2-digit by 1-digit multiplication, length and perimeter, fractions and mass and capacity. We will support our learning in class with the use of concrete apparatus and pictorial representations.

This term’s Geography topic is 'Angry Earth' (Volcanoes and Earthquakes). We will learn about the consequences of natural disasters, their physical features and why they happen. We will explore our world and these powerful events through practical and creative activities alongside explanation writing in English.

In our 'Animals including Humans' Science topic, we will be studying the skeleton and the importance of our bones, muscles and joints. We will then move on to nutrition, focusing on how our diet can help us stay fit and healthy.

Our learning overview for the Spring Term can be found here. Our Year 3 homework grid for Spring 1 can be found here.