Year 3
Welcome to Year 3 and to Key Stage 2!
We will be updating this page weekly to let you know what we have coming up the following week. We will also add any other key news.
WB: 11.11.24
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We will be continuing our unit based around the book ‘The Tunnel’. First, we will be learning about metaphors and personification. This will lead us onto writing a short piece of narrative including some of the features that we have been looking at in our previous lessons. We will then start looking at a balanced argument and the features of this. We will be doing our reading VIPERS comprehension questions based on ‘The Tunnel’ GAPs – we will be looking at the determiners ‘a’ or ‘an’ Spellings – Creating Adverbs (When the Root Word Ends in ‘le’) |
In maths this week we will be continuing our multiplication and division topic. Our lessons this week will be:
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ICT – we will be reviewing and improving our animation. Science – We will be continuing our topic on forces and looking at how magnets affect each other, Outdoor PE (Tuesday) – Tag Rugby Indoor PE (Monday for Miss Holland’s class) – Dance: creating actions to move in contact or interact with a partner. PSHE – Health and wellbeing. Our learning objective is: I know how good hygiene helps to stop the spread of disease, Music – This term our topic is voice. RE – Our RE unit for the half-term is answering the question ‘What is it like for someone to follow God?’ Art – We will be looking at sketching techniques Geography – we will be looking at how the land is used in the South West |
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Mrs Santy/Mrs Bowe’s class will be swimming on a Monday. This will replace their indoor PE session. |
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4.11.24 English |
Maths |
Other |
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We will be continuing our unit based around the book ‘The Tunnel’. First, we will be using short, snappy sentences to build suspense. We will then use ‘show don’t tell’ to build suspense. We will be doing our reading VIPERS comprehension questions based on ‘The Tunnel’ GAPs – We will be looking vowels and consonants. Spellings – our focus is using the suffix ‘ly’
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In maths this week we will be continuing our multiplication and division topic. Our lessons this week will be:
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ICT – our new unit is stop frame animation. We will be putting our animation together. Science – We will be continuing our topic on forces. We will be looking at how well an object can slide on different surfaces. Outdoor PE (Tuesday) – Tag Rugby Indoor PE (Thursday) – we will be starting our dance unit. Mrs Santy/Mrs Bowe’s class will be starting their swimming sessions this week. PSHE – Health and wellbeing. Our learning objective is: I know why it is important to get enough sleep. Music – This term our new music topic is voice. RE – Our RE unit for the half term is answering the question ‘What is it like for someone to follow God?’ Art – We will be stating our new topic on sketching techniques, practising and demonstrating different shading techniques. Geography – we will be learning about the physical landscape regions of the UK. |
Dates for your diary!
Friday 29th November - Decorations Day
Tuesday 17th December 2024 - Year 3 and Year 6 carol concert at St Peters Church at 9:30am
Curriculum Evening
Please click here to access our slides from Curriculum evening
Reading
All children are expected to read at least 3 times a week at home to an adult and have their diary signed. They can change their reading book whenever they would like to, just bring it to one of the adults in the classroom. We monitor all reading at home on a weekly basis and award house points for consistent reading at home. Please ensure children bring their reading book and diary to school on a daily basis. Thank you.
We work on reading comprehension in class during a weekly 'VIPERS' session. The children read a piece of text and then answer a range of comprehension questions in sentences based on what they have read.
Here is an example and the meaning of 'VIPERS' questions below.
PE
Our PE days are: Tuesdays (outdoor) and Thursdays (indoor). Please ensure named PE kit is in school for these sessions.
Children can come to school in their outdoor PE kit on a Tuesday as we will be doing outdoor PE first thing. Please ensure they have their school uniform, including their school shoes in their PE bag on this day.
Please ensure girls have a pair of socks in their PE bags, especially for when they are wearing tights.
A carrier bag for wet/muddy trainers is also useful inside a PE bag.
Homework
Homework is set on a Friday and due in the following Thursday. Any homework sheets can be taken home and brought back to school using the homework folder.
Pencil case
Children may wish to bring in one named pencil case. Some things they might like to include are: pencil, rubber, sharpener, coloured pen (any) for when we self mark our work, Pritt Stick, small ruler and a few colouring pencils. Of course, all of these things are provided by school anyway, some children just like to bring their own. Please name each item to avoid anything getting lost. Thank you.
Pens
At some point in Year 3 or 4, children will be awarded their pen licence and will be able to write in a pen. We are looking for consistent joined, neat handwriting.
Spellings
We will conduct our weekly spelling sessions on a Friday. Children will bring home a list of spellings to learn and spelling related homework which will be due in and tested the following Friday.
The Year 1 and 2 common exception words that all children should know how to spell by Year 3 can be found in the link below.
Year 1 and 2 common exception words
The Year 3 and 4 common exception words are words that we will be learning this year and next year.
Year 3 and 4 common exception words
Dance Mat Typing
This is a fantastic resource to improve your typing skills. You can practise at home, but you will need a keyboard for this (either on a laptop/desktop computer or a wireless one connected to a tablet).
Computing KS2 - Dance Mat Typing - BBC Bitesize
Year 3 Long term plan
Click here to open an overview of the year
Year 3 general information
Times tables
We encourage all children to practise their tables at home via Times Tables Rock Stars. We organise weekly tournaments between the classes.
In Year 4, the children will complete a times tables test. They need to know all their times tables up to 12 x 12 and answer them as quickly as possible (ideally quicker than 6 seconds).
Snacks and water bottles
Please ensure your child has a snack and water bottle in school daily. Key stage 2 children no longer receive funded fruit. Please name snack boxes and water bottles. Thank you.
We also look forward to sharing with you what we have been up to in the classroom. Look out for tweets from Year 3 on the Woodland Grange Twitter feed.
We look forward to teaching your children our exciting and creative curriculum.
Our work
We will upload some pictures of our learning onto here.