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• Year 3 Curriculum Overview

WELCOME TO YEAR 3

Autumn Term - Second Half 

Year 3 Team: Mrs Hover & Mrs Leake

Mrs Ashley Cooper, Mrs Betts, Mrs Hilsden and Mrs Jones

Welcome back! The Year 3 Team hope you’ve enjoyed a well-deserved week’s break and you are feeling ready for another busy and exciting half-term!

In English, we will be starting our new book which will be revealed in Week 1! There is a small clue in the picture above! We will also begin our new text in Shared Reading which is a mystery-adventure book called ‘Ottoline and the Yellow Cat’ by Chris Riddell.

In Maths, we will be finishing ‘Addition and Subtraction’ and then we will move onto ‘Multiplication and Division’. You can practise your times tables at home using ‘Times Table Rockstars’ or any of the games mentioned in the Maths tab above. To improve your mental arithmetic skills, you can also use your TTRockstars login to play on the Numbots games.

We will be learning about Christianity in RE and we will be continuing with our ‘Scratch’ coding project in Computing. If you would like to continue developing your coding skills at home, the website link is: https://scratch.mit.edu/. In Science, we will be looking at ‘Lights and Shadows’ and in History, we will be learning about the Stone Age. The Stone Age was a broad period of history where humans used stone tools; it’s also the earliest period of human culture. You may have watched the film, ‘The Croods’ which is set in the Stone Age!

In the wider curriculum, we will be creating our very own Christmas stockings in D&T. In French we will be learning how to say the days and months of the year and we will also learn how Christmas is celebrated in France. We will continue with our No Outsiders unit on 'Relationships' and we will continue to add to our class toolbox with strategies to help us when looking at the Zones of Regulation. Some of our favourite strategies are: Happy Breathing, Pressure Points and Belly Breathing.

PE lessons will take place on Tuesdays (Swimming/outdoor PE) and Fridays (indoor PE) so please come to school dressed in your PE kits. 

Swimming will take place on the following Tuesdays (Weeks 2, 4 and 6): 

11th November

25th November

9th December

Finally, we will also be practising our Christmas play! We will be doing lots of singing practice in the classroom and in PE on Fridays, we will learn how to dance and perform the songs to show your families in the last week of term. 

YEAR 3 PARENTS

PE Timetable

Tuesday: Outdoor PE or Swimming Lessons 

Friday: Indoor PE

Timetable (Homework)

(We try and change Reading books on most days)

Monday: 

Tuesday: 

Wednesday: Homework due

Thursday: 

Friday: Homework handed out; Reading Records checked

Homework is one task linked to our learning in school that week - either English, Maths or from the Wider Curriculum. It should take your child about 20 minutes and should be able to be completed independently or with some adult support. When your child is completing their homework, please encourage them to present their work neatly.

In addition to this, please ensure your child reads their banded book at least three times a week for a minimum of 10 minutes. Please sign and date their reading record after each reading session (a comment is optional).

We also encourage all the children to choose books to read for pleasure. Click on the Reading tab above for lots of book ideas or come and chat to us for some book recommendations. There are also lots of books in our reading corner which the children are always welcome to take home.

Homework will be set on a Friday and is due on the following Wednesday. Reading Records are checked weekly.

Times Tables

Being able to recall times table facts quickly and accurately helps children succeed in all of our Maths lessons. In Year 2, children learnt the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. In Year 3, we will be learning the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. Repetition is key to knowing the facts quickly and accurately. Please help your child at home to practise these times tables as much as they can. Questions, chanting and Times Tables Rockstars are all good ways to learn (regular short bursts are the best way!) Click on the Maths tab above for further games.

‘How to help your child in Year 3'

Please see below - 'Files to Download' 

Gallery

See 'Year 3: Gallery Items' tab below to view photographs from this year.

Other important information

Snack - Toast is 25p a day. Please book your snack on Parent Pay for the week ahead. You could also supply your child with a piece of fruit/vegetable.

Water bottles - children should continue to bring their water bottles in daily.

Please make sure your child has a waterproof coat each day as we go outside during playtimes in most weather conditions.

Please label your child’s clothing, packed lunches and water bottles.

Contacting Class Teachers

The Year 3 class teachers are Mrs Hover (Monday - Wednesday and Friday) and Mrs Leake (Thursday).

Please always feel free to come and speak to us or alternatively our emails are:

katie.hover@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk

jennifer.leake@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk

PPA (Planning, Preparation & Assessment Time)

On Wednesday afternoons, Ms Anders will be teaching French (Mrs Hover's PPA).