Year 3
Spring 1
Welcome to Year 3:
Orchid and Marigold Class
Miss Sayers is teaching Orchid this year and Ms Hewitt is the class teacher in Marigold. Miss Ing is supporting across Year 3.
Welcome
Welcome to Year 3! We hope you find the information below useful. This information will help you support your child at home with the organisation of their week and their learning at home.
Key Times
| Homework | Each week, children are expected to learn their spellings, practise their times tables, practise their joined-up handwriting and read for 30 minutes each night. |
| PE | In year 3, PE days are Wednesday and Friday for Orchid and Wednesday and Thursday for Marigold. Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing school uniform and they will then change in school. |
| Key Times | For Year 3, the school day will begin at 8.30, and end at 3.30. |
 
What are we learning?
| Literacy | In Literacy, we will be reading “The Magic Paintbrush” by Julia Donaldson and “The Proudest Blue” by Ibtihaj Muhammad. The children will learn how to write instructions, create a character description and produce a diary entry. |
| Maths | In Maths, we will be focusing on geometry, money and comparing and ordering numbers up to 700. |
| Science | In Science, we are examining rocks and how different rocks are formed and how specific rocks are used for different items that we use today. |
| Geography | Exploring sustainability will be the subject of our geographical learning for the Spring term. We will be discussing pollution, recycling, and how to make our environment more sustainable. |
| History | In History, we will investigate how iron changed Britain. We will be looking at life in the Iron Age, what people wore in the Iron Age and how archaeologists learn about the past. |
| RE | In RE this term, we will be focusing on the importance of the 5 pillars in Islam and the significance of each pillar. |
| Computing | The children will be introduced to a new Computing curriculum in Year 3 and this term will focus on programming. |
| Art | In art, we will be learning about impressionism and post-impressionism. Our focus artist will be Vincent van Gogh. We will create art using different types of brushstrokes and experiment using warm and cool colours. |
| French | In French, we will be learning basic nouns, deepen our understanding of phonics and continue to discuss important instructional language within the classroom. |
| PSHE | In PSHE we will continue thinking about significant people and we will mainly be focusing on the suffragette cause and how we should be grateful for those that fought for equality. Wellbeing will remain a focal point of our learning too. |
| PE | In PE we will be doing gymnastics. |
| Music | In Music, we are continuing to practise our singing and learning the recorder. |
How can I help at home?
One of the key ways every parent can help, is to ensure that your child is at school every day and on time. Other than this, the main way you can help is by ensuring that your child reads every day, for at least 25 minutes – this can be with you, or on their own, but it is the most effective way of ensuring that your child progresses and learns outside of school. Practising times tables frequently is vital, and children should be confident in their times tables by the end of year 4. Children should also be encouraged to practise writing in cursive.
If you have any questions, please talk to Miss Sayers or Ms Hewitt alternatively, you can arrange a meeting via the school email.
Thanks,
Miss Sayers and Ms Hewitt
