Welcome to Year 3!
Your teachers are Mrs Horan (Seoul) and Miss Hillard (Tokyo).
Your teaching assistant is Mr Farrall and Mrs Simpson
Our topic this Autumn Term is: ‘How deep is the ocean?’
English –Writing
As part of our English curriculum, we use the PALS approach to support and develop pupils' writing skills:
P – Purpose
A – Audience
L – Language
S – Structure
Through the use of exciting and engaging high-quality texts, alongside the PALS approach, children are inspired to write for a range of purposes and audiences. By considering these key elements, we will be learning how to make effective choices about the content, language and organisation of our writing. Throughout the year, we will explore a variety of writing genres, helping us to develop our creativity, communication skills and understanding of different text types.
During the Autumn Term, we will have opportunities to write in a range of genres, including letters and diary entries, alongside other carefully chosen text types that support learning across the curriculum.
Our text/s this term is:
Over the course of the year, pupils will work towards meeting the following writing objectives:
- Generate and select vocabulary banks (e.g. noun phrases, powerful verbs, technical language, synonyms for said) appropriate to text type.
- Discuss and record ideas for planning using a range of formats (e.g. boxing up, story maps, flow charts).
- Identify, select, generate and effectively use prepositions for where (e.g. above, below.
- Explore, identify and create complex sentences using a range of conjunctions (e.g. when, if, because, although, while, since, until, before, after, so).
This progressive approach enables children to build confidence as writers and develop the skills needed to communicate clearly, accurately, and purposefully in a range of contexts.
English - Reading
Our new reading book is:
Maths
In maths this term we will be focusing on the following concepts:
Place Value
- Representing numbers to 100 and 1000
- Partitioning numbers from 100 to 1000
- Finding 1,10 or 100 less or more
- Counting in 50’s
Addition and Subtraction
- Applying our number bonds to 10
- Add and subtract 1,10 or 100
- Column addition and subtraction with or without exchanges
- Estimation
Multiplication and Division
- Using arrays
- Multiplying and dividing by 3, 4 and 8
- Sharing and grouping
- Making equal groups
Times tables focus: 3x, 4x, 8x
and from Year 2: 2x, 5x, 10x
Useful resources
We understand the importance of children learning alongside their adults at home, so here are a few resources to help you along the way!
BBC Supermovers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
Hit the button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
Times Tables rockstars: https://play.ttrockstars.com/
PurpleMash: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/wistaston#/portal/wistaston/child
Place Value Basketball: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
BBC School Radio (educational songs/audio books): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007g5y4
Look, cover, write, check (a great spelling game to help practice patterns): https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html
Other areas of the Curriculum
Science: Animals Including Humans (bones in the body, diet and exercise and nutrients)
PSHE: Being Me in My World
PE: Sports Hall Athletics (Thursday) and Throw, Prepare and Catch (Monday)
DT: Pneumatics
RE: What makes us human?
Music: Love Music Trust - Peter and the Wolf
French: A New Start
Geography: How deep is the ocean?
PE
This term the Year 3 children will have PE on a Tuesday with teachers and Sports coaches from the Crewe Alex, and Friday with teachers.
On these days we ask that children come to school in their PE clothes rather than their school uniform.
Weather dependant they can wear their shorts and school coloured PE t- shirt and house PE sweatshirt. If the weather is cold, then tracksuit bottoms/leggings would be more suitable. Trainers are preferable to pumps as it is possible the children may be outdoors for some lessons.
Please ask at the office if you are unsure on the expectations of PE kits.
Year 3 weekly spellings
The Y3 spellings will be on the weekly learning poster, which is emailed out to parents.
Spelling tests this year will be on a Monday, so that the children have the week to learn the rules with their class teachers in school and then the weekend for any additional practice. Please check the test dates on the learning poster each week to ensure children are practising the correct words.
Reading at home
Children in Year 3 are expected to read with an adult 3 times a week to ensure comprehension and decoding skills are in-line with the books they are reading. A note Pageticker will let us know that this has been done. Please email the office if you are having any issues logging on.
Children are encouraged to change their own book upon completion of their reading quiz, this can be accessed via the link on the learning poster. Due to limited time in KS2 we do ask that reading quizzes are completed at home, as these aid in moving children up the levels, these can occasionally be completed in school if needed.
Year 3 weekly homework
- Spellings (test every Monday)
- Reading (at least 3 times a week evidenced on Pageticker and accelerated reader quizes)
- 20 mins of TTRS
- Accelerated Reader and other missing logins will be set up for the children later this term, and sent out for use at home.
Thank you for your continued support!