Year 3 - September 2022

Hello and Welcome to Year 3,

My name is Mrs Walsh-Young and I am the teacher for his academic year.  Our Class Teaching Assistant is Mrs Dutfield and Mrs Allen.

Below is some information about what we will be learning, our topics and some ideas on how you can help your child at home.  I hope you find it useful.

If you do have any questions or concerns regarding your childs' learning, please do not hesitate to contact me, via the school office and we can arrange a mutally convenient time to speak.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Walsh-Young

Information for Year 3 Class

Topic: 

• Term 1 - Stone Age

We will start our term some activities to help get the children's creative writing ideas flowing!  There will be a Humpty Dumpty crime scene and a Stone Age Camp Fire!  It is hoped that by experiencing these to activities it will help the children relate to their writing and create some fantastic pieces of work!

English:   Our class story which will play an integral part of our English this term will be the text 'Stone Age Boy' as well as 'How to Train a Woolly Mammoth'.  Alongside these, the children will also look at a range of non-fiction text that relate to this topic.  Our English work will focus on writing narratives, studying the main features of the text and then writing our own.  The children will also write some instructions for washing our own Woolly Mammoth or how to catch our own Stone Age Beast!

Physical Education (PE) - our PE day is a Thursday afternoon.  We will do a mixture of activities both inside and if the weather is kind, outside.  It is really important that your child has the right PE kit each week.  They will need trainers, a t-shirt and either shorts (if its hot) or tracksuit bottoms or leggings.  As we are approaching the winter months a jumper suitable for exercising in would also be useful.  In Year 3 we also do the daily mile to wake up our bodies and brains ready for learning.

Homework - This is given out on a Tuesday and is due in on a Monday. It will always consist of spellings, Times Tables Rock Stars and daily reading of at least 10 minutes. There will also be a short task linked to what we have been learning in class. Please write in their Yellow Reading Record book every time your child reads and that their reading books are bought to school every day. Reading isn't just about 'reading a book' - you can also help improve their comprehension skills by asking your child questions about what they've read, can they make predictions based on what they know about the story so far, can they find specific words in a book, can they compare this book to another one they've read etc..  All these are important skills that make reading easier and more enjoyable. Children don't just have to read their school reading books; reading a range of different genres such as magazines, newspapers, instructions, information books and comics will all help your child.

Year 3 - 2022 - 2023 Long Term Plan

Please click here to view our Long Term plan for this Year.  This document details our topics and focus for each subject for Terms 1 through to 6 for this academic year.