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St Peter's Church of England (Aided) Primary School

St Peter's Church of England (Aided) Primary School

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Y3 Sharks & Stingray

CLASS TEACHERS

Mrs L. Jones
Sharks Class
(Mon, Tue)
Mr D. Tombling
Sharks Class
(Wed, Thurs, Fri)
Ms J. Leonard
Stingray Class

Teaching Assistants:

Across the Year Group: Mrs A. Wharton & Mrs L. Funnell


Our Timetable

Our Curriculum

Our learning journey in Year 3 is a blend of year group and whole school projects.  Below is a short description of each project accompanied by the project planners, which details the key texts, vocabulary, subject coverage and expected outcomes.

Autumn Term

Autumn 1 – How do you become king or queen?

To answer this enquiry question we focus on the Tudors.

We ask key questions such as:

What happened at the Battle of Bosworth?

What was life like at court?

Why did Henry VIII have so many wives?

We look at a range of sources to help us understand and try to answer these questions. In guided reading we look at a range of non-fiction texts, as well as the book King Henry VIII’s Shoes by Karen Wallace. In art, we study the work of Hans Holbein the Younger. We develop our sketching skills and create our own portraits inspired by Holbein. We also visit Hampton Court Palace where we learn about what life was like in Henry VIII’s court.


Autumn 2 – What was it like being evacuated?

This half term we will be looking at the impact of World War 2 on children who were evacuated. We will be role-playing an evacuation and writing emotive diary entries. We will also write free-form poetry about being evacuated.

Our guided reading lessons are based on the book The Lion and the Unicorn by Shirley Hughes.  The book follows the life of a young evacuee Lenny and explores the challenges he faces in his new home in the countryside.

For the final two weeks we will have a D.T. focus based around pulleys and levers. We will create moving pictures with a Christmas theme.

Spring Term

Spring 1 – What is darkness?

The whole school begins the Spring Term with a Space project.

Spring 2 – Why do vertebrates need to look after their skeletons? / What makes Good Friday ‘good’?

Spring 3 – What makes Good Friday good?

For the final three weeks the whole school learn about a different aspect of Easter.

Summer Term

During the Summer Term, the theme for the whole school is ‘Look Around.’ Learning across the whole school is led by Geography.

What makes Europe a diverse continent?

Reading

In Year 3 your child will be developing into an increasingly fluent reader. The focus will now be on building comprehension, but it is still important that children use their phonics skills to tackle new words. Some children will continue to participate in Read, Write Inc phonics groups as needed. There are plenty of opportunities for the children to read for pleasure and we link this to our use of the Accelerated Reader software where children are encouraged to ‘quiz their books in order to reach their targets.

Useful websites include: www.readingeggspress.co.uk

www./worldbook.kitaboo.com/reader/worldbook

www.storylineonline.net

www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home

Writing

By the end of Y3 a child be able to write down their ideas independently. The grammar and punctuation should be broadly accurate. There is a list of spellings for Year 3 and 4 these can be found on the following website.

Example of Y3 Writing

Other useful websites are: www.pobble365.com

www.literacyshed.com

www.onceuponapicture.co.uk

www.teachitprimary.co.uk/writing-composition-ks2

Mathematics 

In Year 3, your child will develop their mental and written calculation skills numbers up to 1000. This can be a big jump from Year 2, so lots of support is given though the use of concrete resources and pictorial representations. Your child will be introduced to 2-digit multiplication and division, and develop their understanding of fractions. They will convert between units of measurement, find perimeters, and compare angles. By the end of Year 3, your child should be able to tell the time to the minute and calculate durations based on start and end times.

Children learn their 3, 4 and 8 times tables (in addition to 2, 5, and 10 learnt in Year 2).

Useful websites are: https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths

https://ttrockstars.com/

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

www.mathshed.com

www.mathletics.co.uk

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

www.whiterosemaths.com/resources/schemes-of-learning/primary-sols

www.nrich.maths.org/6499

www.diagnosticquestions.com/whiterose

www.mathsframe.co.uk

Homework 

Maths: 20 minutes maths each week. This will alternate between times tables (TT Rockstars or paper equivalent) or practice of work done in class.

Reading: 20 minutes reading each night

Spellings: Weekly spellings practice for a spelling test on Friday

Y3 Correspondence

To find out more about your child’s curriculum please contact your child’s class teacher or click this link to go to the national curriculum.

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A great KS1 Sports Day! Well done to everyone who A great KS1 Sports Day! Well done to everyone who took part and a huge well done to Eagles House who won the trophy! 🏆👏👏 Hawks were only a few points behind!
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Kicking our Wellbeing Week off with a whole school Kicking our Wellbeing Week off with a whole school workout!
Learning how to make a crumble at Toukies! Learning how to make a crumble at Toukies!
We’ve had so much fun watching Duggie Dug Dug’ We’ve had so much fun watching Duggie Dug Dug’s crazy science experiments and singing 🎶 some of his songs!
The massive cart of wooden bricks 🧱 is very pop The massive cart of wooden bricks 🧱 is very popular at Toukies this week! Lots of collaborative play 😀#ToukiesBeforeandAfterschoolcare
Thank you for all the advent calendar donations fo Thank you for all the advent calendar donations for the food bank 🙏 #horshammatters #trusseltrust
Y6s’ clay poppies on display at St. Peter’s ch Y6s’ clay poppies on display at St. Peter’s church in preparation for remembrance Sunday.
Is your child starting school next September? - We Is your child starting school next September? - We are holding an 'open morning' this Saturday, 9th November between 10.00am and 12.00pm to which Parents/carers are warmly invited. 
As well as seeing inside the EYFS unit and meeting the staff team, the morning will give an insight into how our curriculum design and environment enables all children to thrive and achieve their potential. There will be two talks from our Headteacher at 10.15am and 11.15am. Please just come along. 
We look forward to welcoming you to our school.
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