Year 3
Welcome to Year Three
Welcome to Year 3
The year group is divided into 3 classes:
3L is taught by Miss Lawrence
3GP is taught by Mrs Gulley and Mrs Price
3W is taught by Mr Walker
This year group is further supported by Ms Gowan and Mr Collingwood.
English
During our English lessons, we will be teaching Year 3 objectives from the national curriculum through our daily writing lessons. Our first unit is a narrative based on the text ‘Stone Age Boy’. Following on from this, children will be learning persuasive writing techniques in our unit on Skara Brae. We will be learning the difference between “a” and “an”, adverbs of time and how to use commas.
This term, we will be reading ‘The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S Lewis. In the second part of the term, we will be reading ‘The Minpins’ by Roald Dahl. We will also be reading a range of texts linked to other areas of the curriculum or current events.
Your child will be bringing home one of our level-appropriate books from our reading scheme. We are asking our children to read five times a week which should be recorded on ‘BoomReader’. Along with the book the children are allocated from our reading scheme, they will also take home a book of their choice from our class library- this could be for them to read themselves or to be read to by an adult. Any additional book that is read at home can also be logged on Boom Reader. There will be a Year 3 Parent Workshop on the 11th November in the afternoon. More detail to follow.
Each class will also have their own Reading Scrapbooks. Children will take turns to bring it home and complete a page about their favourite book.
Mathematics
We will start our year of Mathematics by looking at Place Value, before progressing onto addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In Year 3, the children begin to learn formal written methods for calculating.
We will be learning and practising tables in Maths lessons and would appreciate it if you could encourage your children to continue learning them at home, using their TT Rockstars log in. We will send these logins out again soon. We will also send out weekly homework practicing the terms table starting with the 3 times table in Autumn term. In Year 3, children learn the 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
Other areas of the curriculum
RSHE: Children will be reflecting on the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘How do I fit?’ Children will be discussing how they belong to Team Trinity and how positive choices can help make our school a happy place to learn.
Science: Our first topic is Forces followed by Rocks, Soil and Fossils
History: Changes in Britain from The Stone Age to the Iron Age
P.E.
P.E kits are required to be worn to school on the day of your child’s P.E. lesson. This term, P.E will be on a Tuesday in the afternoon.
The school P.E. kit consists of plain black shorts or joggers, a plain black sweatshirt or hoody, a white t-shirt (with or without the school logo) and trainers. Please ensure that if your child wears earrings to school, these are either removed by the child themselves or taped up with tape provided from home.
P.P.A (Swimming, P.E and Music) Swimming Order: Autumn 3W Spring 3GP Summer 3L
3W are swimming in the first term and therefore will need their swimming kit every Wednesday. All Year 3 children should wear their P.E kit on Wednesdays, starting on Wednesday 16th December. On the first day of school (Wednesday 2nd September) Year 3 should wear school uniform.
This year, we will be running PPA in set week blocks, so 3W’s first swimming session will be Wednesday 9th September. 3GP will then then begin swimming on Wednesday 16th December.