Welcome to Year 3

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CLASSES

Wombats:

Mrs Fletcher

Miss Batchelor (Teaching Assistant)

Vaquitas:

Mrs Eldred

Mrs Walter (Teaching Assistant)

Our Learning - Term 1

Light and Shadows

Welcome to an exciting new year and term of learning for Year 3 as we dive into our fascinating topic, Light and Dark. In science, the children will step into the shoes of young researchers as they investigate how shadows are formed, explore light sources, and carry out different investigations. We will bring this theme into our English lessons through two captivating texts: Tomi Ungerer’s Moon Man and Lemony Snicket’s The Dark. The children will focus on crafting vivid descriptive writing inspired by these stories, before gathering facts to plan and write their very own non-chronological reports on the theme of light.

Our other subjects include Design and Technology, Music, Languages, and PE! In DT, Year 3 will explore mechanisms—learning how levers, split pins, and linkages work—to design and create their own moving shadow puppets for a mini performance. In Music, the children will begin learning to play the recorder, reading simple notation and building their rhythm skills. Alongside we will be introducing basic British Sign Language (BSL) to communicate in new ways. Finally, to keep active, our PE sessions this term will focus on developing teamwork, passing, and ball-handling skills through basketball and handball.

PE

PE sessions in Term 1:

Wednesday and Friday.

Please remember to include trainers, shorts/ jogging bottoms and house colour t-shirt.

READING

Reading is so important. Please read with your child every day.

Your child needs to feel this is a good, warm experience - do read to them as well as listening to their reading, so they can relax and enjoy.

Also, talk about the book as much as you can - offer ideas, discuss, challenge, compare what happens in the book to things in daily life... make them think!

We understand that starting a new term can be tiring and if this is the case, please feel free to be the one doing the reading to your child!

SPELLING

The children will have Spelling shed activities related to their current words we are learning in class. We encourage playing the games and challenges to further support them with this.

MATHS

In year 3 we need to know the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables. They will have a test on all times tables in year 4.

You can help them practise, practise, practise!

Short bursts are best, a variety of games works better than the same thing over and over. TTRS is a brilliant resource to support this.

Things the children have learned that will help:

Multiplication is repeated addition.

Division is the inverse (opposite) of multiplication.

If you know the counting pattern, you know the times table - i.e., if you can count in fives, use this to say the five times table!

Times Table Rockstars
https://ttrockstars.com/

YEAR 3 GALLERY

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