Welcome to Autumn Term 2024  

Welcome back to the new academic year in Year 3. We are all really excited to be working with your children this year. We are starting to get to know each other and below is a picture of the team that will be working with the children in this year. If you need any help, or have any questions please message us on class dojo and we will get back to you as it can be very busy at the end of the day. We will also post regular messages and updates on dojo so do keep checking. Our main topic this half term is geography based and we will be learning all about settlements. In  the second half of the term our history topic is all about prehistoric life in the Stone Age. In Science, we will be discovering how rocks are formed. We look forward to helping every one of the children achieve their full potential and ensuring they have a fun-filled journey along the way! If you have any questions or if you or your child requires support, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

YEAR THREE TEAM

The Year 3 Teachers and Teaching Assistants are all looking  forward to welcoming you back and supporting you:

This term, 

• Mrs Bloodworth will teach in 3KB 
• Miss Glover will be teaching 3AG  
• Miss Matthews will be teaching some limited subjects to both classes on a half-day session. 
• Our Year 3 Teaching Assistant this term is Mrs Lewis.
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Underpinning all of our learning and time together are our school values. They are also linked to our Class Dojo rewards. We will learn about and celebrate examples of each value daily.

OUR VALUE FOR THIS HALF TERM IS....

Happiness

Our key questions are:

What makes me happy?

How can I make others happy?

English 

As Writers, we will develop our writing skills, through a range of genres including Adventure Stories and Instructions all of which will be inspired by the story ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth.’ We will develop our use of descriptive vocabulary and later, our characterisation and setting descriptions.  We will also be focussing on our spelling, punctuation and grammar in our weekly SPAG lessons. 

We will work on sentence structure and vocabulary not only in English, but throughout all lessons, and develop a range of new writing techniques.  We will at all times, focus on handwriting and presentation. 

Reading

Reading is a priority at Salisbury Road, therefore we will be practising our reading skills 4x a week using VIPERS to help us. In the classroom, we will use a mixture of choral, echo and partner reading, this will enable us to become confident, fluent readers.

Please remember to read at home four times a week to an adult. It is also really important that you record your reading in your reading record so your teacher can see how much you are reading at home. If you have read four times in a week, you will earn a raffle ticket for the reading raffle and have the chance to win a brand new book!

We will visit the central library. 

Maths 

As Mathematicians, we will improve our understanding of place value and become confident when working with 3-digit numbers up to 1000. 

We will develop our skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, including the formal written methods for addition and subtraction. 

We will learn fluently, the multiplication and division facts x2, x3, x4, x5 and x10. As well as this, we will be learning to count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100 and finding 10 or 100 more or less than a given number. 

Science

As Scientists we will be learning about rocks and soils. The children will explore the different types of rocks and how they are formed. The children will learn about fossils and explore how natural geography plays a key part in how rocks are formed.

In summer 2  our learning will be about light . We will be learning about shadows, light and dark and  conducting a variety of experiments. We will also consider sun safety.

Geography and History

As Geographers we will be learning about the world that we live in., focussing on the physical and human features of the Southwest of England. We will be looking at a range of maps including ordnance survey maps. As Historians, we will be learning about Prehistoric Britain, exploring how settlements, food, communities and beliefs changed across the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Computing 

As Computer Programmers, we will learn how to use technology responsibly and identify a range of ways to report concerns about contact that makes us feel unsafe. We will also be learning to use Teams to help us with our learning at home. 

 Music

As Musicians we  will practise our singing skills and consider how to evaluate pieces of music using the scheme ‘Charanga’. We will be listening to songs and learning to play instruments with confidence, expression and control.

PE

Through weekly indoor and outdoor sessions, this term we will be developing the skills of agility, balance and co-ordination.  

We will be developing our ability to move in different ways including leaping and jumping and using simple equipment we will focus on our accuracy when throwing and catching.  Promoting teamwork, we will play simple team games and always encourage good sportsmanship.

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Spanish

As Linguists, we will be learning Spanish. The topics we will cover are Greetings, Self-introductions, Simple body parts and instructions, Days and Months, Classroom Objects and prepositions and cultures that speak Spanish.  We will develop our ability to recognise and respond to familiar questions through the learning of simple words and phrases.

PHSE and RE

As Philosophers, we will be developing our speaking and listening skills while considering our own views and the views of others.

In PHSE, we will be thinking about how everyone has the right to learn, and how we can work well with others.

In RE, we will be asking the question—’What do Christians learn from the Creation story?’ We look forward to hearing about all of the children's views and experiences too. 

ART and DT

As Artists and Designers, we will be learning about drawing and painting techniques, while also experimenting with the prehistoric art of the Stone Age.  Later in the term, we will be  designing our own Stone Age tools.

Spellings

Spellings will be given out on a Monday ready for a test on the following Monday. These words will be linked to the Year 3 spelling patterns in our Read Write Inc. daily spelling lessons as well as the year 3/4 NC required word lists. We will have a focus on recapping previous spellings and spellings from year 2 to help close gaps. Links for spellings can be found in the website links part of the page 

TIMES TABLE ROCKSTARS

We are trying really hard this year to learn our times tables. We have a daily session where we practice. To support our learning of these tables in school, we would love you to have fun using TTRS at home; the children love it in school! The children have all been given their individual login. 

Please don't forget to keep practising your times tables - these are VERY important!

Challenge yourself to beat your classmates on TTRS.

Homework 

Homework is set on a Tuesday to be returned on the following Monday. This maybe through teams, paper copies or a project. Children should also continue to use TTRS to help with  learning their times table, practise their spellings and read as often as possible.