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Dear Parent(s)/Carer(s),

We would like to welcome you to Year 3. We hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable break. In this letter we hope to provide you with useful information to support your child this term

If you have any concerns or worries during the school year, please arrange a time with the school office to meet with your child’s teacher or speak to them at the end of the school day.

Thanks,

Year 3 team

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The school day begins promptly at 8.50.  All children can enter classes from 8:30, ready to be greeted by their class teacher.  It is essential for your child to attend school everyday and to be in class on time, as this will avoid your child missing those important few minutes at the start of the lesson. The school office should be notified of all absences.  The school day finishes at 3.20pm.

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The children will be working on writing non - chronological reports, adventure stories and character descriptions.

We will be focusing on how to describe a character, how to make the reader worry about a character and how to inform the reader about something.

We will also be developing the children’s ability to describe, through imagery, similes, personification and much more!

You can help at home by:

Visiting the library and borrowing fiction and information books. Collect and ask your children to read leaflets, poetry books and stories.

Everyone is welcome to visit the school’s Active Learning Library, which offers a range of fiction and non-fiction books and spelling games.

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Topics: Place Value, Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division.

You can help at home by:

Practising mental adding and subtracting as well as multiplication tables in 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, 6X, 8X and 10X. Read  receipts to become familiar with adding money. Partition numbers up to 1000. Organise objects into groups and practise sharing and writing multiplication and division equations.

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Topography of the UK
The children will explore the physical geography of the UK. they will also participate in field and map work as well as recognise longitude and latitude lines on the globes.

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Children should read every day, recording in their reading records how long they read for and which page they are up to. This can be completed in their reading record or their class Padlet. Children should be reading for 20 minutes a day. Please ensure that your child brings their reading book and reading diary into school every day.

This term we will be reading and studying 'Remarkable Reptiles', 'Stone Girl Bone Girl', 'The Minpins', 'Beware of the Storybook Wolves' and 'Frost'. These stories tie into our English and History topics!

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Light
The children will recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light. They will notice that light is reflected from surfaces and recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes. They will recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object.

Animals including Humans
The children will learn how to name and identify different parts of skeletons as well as how to maintain a balanced diet to keep us healthy.

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A reading fluency task will be set every Friday on Microsoft Teams.

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The Stone Age to the Iron Age
The children will explore what life was like from The Stone Age to the Iron Age. They will learn how life had changed over this period of time and how artefacts have helped us to learn about Pre-Historic times.

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Structures

The children will identify and explore different shell structures. They will make their own shell structure in the form on a gift box.

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Skill: Drawing - Still Life and Form

The children will understand what still life is and that it has been part of history for a long time. They will also understand the process of still life and how it has changed over time.

They will explore the following techniques:

Use shading to show light and shadow

Use hatching, cross-hatching and stippling  to show tone and texture to create 3D effects

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Children will be introduced to French and the French speaking world. They will learn basic greetings: how to introduce themselves and say how they are feeling. They will learn numbers 1-12 and how to say how old they are. They will learn basic French phonics, starting with vowel sounds and progressing to learning the French alphabet.

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The children will be learning about managing feelings and emotions in different scenarios, the working world, a world without judgement and growing and changing. They will also learn about being responsible in different scenarios.

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Islam- What is the best way for a Muslim to lead a good life?

Christianity - Has Christmas lost its true meaning?