Welcome to Year 3
Our class teacher is Mr. Burns and Mrs. Alvi and Mrs Howe work with our class to help us with our learning.
In Year 3, we have all agreed that we would like to work within a calm, friendly and encouraging learning environment, so we have promised to work hard to ensure that this happens. Everyone has their strengths and everyone has areas to work on, but we will all be there for one another to ensure that we are in the best position to succeed.
We have worked, and will continue to work, towards improving our growth mindset and working to improve our resilience across the curriculum and beyond. Getting something wrong or making a mistake is not an issue and we should have no fear of failure, as every mistake is simply another learning opportunity. We must persevere until we get the right answer… after all, even Albert Einstein said that he wasn’t the most intelligent person, rather he just stayed at a problem longer than everyone else… and didn’t give up!
Our Year 3 Long Term Learning Plan
Our Weekly Timetable
Here is a copy of our weekly Class 3 timetable:
Year 3 2022-23 Class Timetable
Please note: this timetable is subject to change on a weekly basis, but our week will generally follow this timetable.
English
In our class, we base our reading, writing, punctuation and grammar lessons on ‘The Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura, before moving onto ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. We will explore different genres of writing (including relevant punctuation and grammar activities to support this writing), as well as completing a variety of reading activities.
Here are some websites that the children may be asked to use for homework tasks throughout the course of the year (Passwords are distributed to children in their homework books):
Access Spelling Frame here.
Access SPAG.com here.
Access Oxford Reading Buddy here.
Maths
As a school, we follow the White Rose Maths scheme of work with a focus on Teaching for Mastery. In Year 3 Autumn term, we look at Place Value up to 1000, addition and subtraction up to 3-digits, and our times tables (3x, 4x and 8x).
Additionally, here are some websites that the children may be asked to use for homework tasks throughout the course of the year (Passwords are distributed to children in their homework books):
Access Times Table Rock Stars here.
Science
Over the year we learn about a whole host of extremely interesting Science topics, such as Plants, Animals including Humans, Rocks and Fossils, Light, Forces and Magnets.
History
Our Autumn Term topic is The Stone Age to the Bronze Age, where we explore the lives of the people who lived during this time, including how they survived, the homes in which they lived, the weapons they used, the discovery of Skara Brae, as well as touching on the lives of people in both the Bronze and Iron Ages.
We go on to learn about The Ancient Egyptians and the structures they built and how the Ancient Greeks shaped our world too.
Geography
In this subject, we focus on learning the geography of the UK, including the countries of the UK, counties of the UK, major cities of the UK, rivers and seas of the UK, and the mountains of the UK. We find out why we have cities and about the special features of the North East. This provides the children with a better understanding of where we live.
PE
Year 3 have PE on a Thursday afternoon with Mr. Burns and take part in activities based around the skills necessary in basketball, rugby, cricket, athletics, dance and gymnastics throughout the course of the academic year. We take part in several sports-related festivals throughout the course of the year. We are also taught to understand how to warm up/cool down properly, how to listen carefully in order to follow instructions, and how to keep ourselves (and each other) safe from injury.
Swimming
The children in Year 3 have the opportunity to participate in swimming lessons every Tuesday afternoon. The class are split into two groups and each group attend in alternating half terms. For example Group 1 will attend for each Tuesday in the first half term, and Group 2 will attend each Tuesday in the second half term.
Homework
Homework is handed out on a Friday and this needs to be handed in on the Tuesday of the following week. The homework task is explained to the children before they go home on each Friday to make sure that they know what they will need to do. This can range from completing tasks on a given website, completing spelling practise, times table practise and/or topic themed homework.
Reading at school and at home
Reading books are changed regularly. Children let us know when they have finished their current school reading book. Additionally, if children have a book of interest they are reading at home, this can be recorded in their personal organiser too. We work hard to foster a love for reading. The aim is for all children to read at least three times a week with an adult, and to record this in their organiser.
Responsibilities and Rewards
Each class member will be given a responsibility role within our classroom, either as a class representative or to carry out tasks that help our lessons and activities to run smoothly.
The children can earn “Star of the Day” each day by impressing adults in our class in a variety of ways – this could include trying our best; persevering with a challenging problem; being kind; showing improvement in courage, independence or enthusiasm and/or showing a good sense of humour.
Each week we select a “Star of the Week” from those children that have gained “Star of the Day”. This is awarded to someone who has consistently shown those same fantastic learning traits throughout the entire week.
Thank you for visiting!
If any parents have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Mr. Burns.
