Year 3
Our Year 3 Staff
Grammar Explanations and Examples:
Determiner - A class of words used to determine how many there are of something or how aware we are of something - a, an, the, some, many, one, two, three, this, that, these, those, any, no…
A son called for his mother - One son, not necessarily well known.
My son called for his mother - One son but this time well know.
Some sons called for their mothers - More than one son, not necessarily well known.
Word Family - Where one stem is combined with a variety of prefixes and suffixes it produces a word family.
Weight’s Word Family - overweight, underweight, weightless, weightlessly, weightiness, weighty, weightlessness…
Conjunctions - A group of words used to join together words, phrases or clauses.
But, or, and (co-ordinating conjunctions)/ As, although, because, if, since, so (that), when, where (subordinating conjunctions)
Adverbs - Words used to describe a verb (action)
Then, next, soon, so..
The boy stumbled next to the large statue.
Preposition - A word, usually found before a noun, which expresses relation to another noun.
Before, after, during, because of, in
The boy entered the room after his sister.
Term 3: Fractions; Pupils will be taught to count up and down in tenths, how to recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects, add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and be able to compare fractions with the same denominators.
Properties of shape; Children will be looking at the properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes. Children will need to identify right angles, identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle and identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
Term 4; Measurement; Children will measure, compare and add and subtract; lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml). Children will be learning how to tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII.
History
Term 3: Ancient Egyptians; Children will study the achievements of the earliest civilizations including an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared.
Geography
Term 4: Locational Knowledge and Geographical skills and fieldwork.
Children will locate and name countries and cities in the UK and Europe.
Science
Term 3: Plants; Children will identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants, explore the requirements of plants for life and growth and investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.
Term 4: Rocks; Children will compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties, describe in simple terms how fossils are formed and recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
R.E
Term 3: Call to Change
The children will be learning about:
-How Jesus called people to turn away from sin
-To understand that God always loves us
-To know what the sacrament of Reconciliation means and what happens during it.
Term 4: Eucharist
-To know why Sunday is special for Christmas
-To know that we come to Mass to hear the teaching of Jesus and to pray to him.
-To learn some of the responses in the Mass
-To know we offer thanks to God the Father for the gifts of his son
-To know that during Mass the bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus
-To know that when we receive Holy Communion we receive Jesus
-To know that Jesus is present in the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle
-To understand Jesus died on the cross, and rose again, to save us from sin.
P.E
Term 3: Basketball
Term 4: Football
Computing
Term 3: We are presenters
Term 4: We are network engineers
In English we will be focusing on the novel ‘Iron Man by Ted Hughes’. We will be using this book as the stimulus for all of our writing. In Term 3 we will be focusing on Non-Fiction: Newspaper reports. In Term 4 we will be focusing on Fiction: Narrative writing.
When reading, pupils will be working towards achieving a standard of reading that is both fluent and efficient. In addition they will be learning to use dictionaries to check the meaning of words and identify themes across a range of books. Accelerated Reading books will be sent home every night and tested via a short quiz upon completion of the book. Please read with your child every night and make a note of it in their learning journal.
Homework
Every Friday pupils will take home a piece of English, Maths and Topic homework. This will either assess learning that has taken place or prepare pupils for the week ahead. Please help your child complete and return it before the following Wednesday.
Spellings will be sent home on a Monday and tested on a Friday. Please help your child learn them, perhaps even creating mnemonics for the words they find tricky e.g. BECAUSE = Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.
Times Tables are key to progress at Key Stage 2 and any child who practises them daily will be fully prepared for the learning taking place in class. Specific times tables will be sent home on a Monday and tested the following Friday. Please help your child learn them daily.
Children who are read to, with and listened to read on a daily basis make accelerated progress throughout their academic careers and it is a key indicator of success in later life. Please check that your child is ready to read with their specially assigned Accelerated Reading book each night. Your comments are extremely helpful and we welcome any contribution you can make in the learning journals.
Year 3 Housekeeping Letters
