Miss Dodds - Y3 Class Teacher

Miss Crossett  - Y3 Teaching Assistants

 

Welcome to Year 3 

 Year 3 marks the beginning of Key Stage 2 and an exciting new chapter in each child’s learning journey. As pupils move into this stage, they begin to take greater responsibility for their learning and develop increased independence, both academically and socially.  

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Please have a look at the following information to see what we will be doing throughout Autumn 2

English

Stone Age Boy

 

This half term, we will be exploring the exciting story Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. The children will learn about life in the Stone Age through the main character's journey back in time, discovering how people lived, hunted, gathered food, and worked together. They will use their knowledge of the story and the historical period to write their own historical narrative inspired by Stone Age Boy.

Through this unit, pupils will develop their reading and writing skills while exploring historical fiction, descriptive writing, and narrative structure. They will learn how to create an engaging opening, describe settings and characters using ambitious vocabulary, and write a story that includes historically relevant details about life in the Stone Age.

In their writing, the children will:

• Secure the use of full stops, capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks.
• Orally rehearse sentences before writing.
• Use conjunctions such as when, before, after, while and until to create complex sentences.
• Use commas to separate clauses when the subordinate clause comes first.
• Write narratives using the past tense.
• Develop character and setting descriptions using expanded noun phrases, e.g. the friendly bear with a bright red hat.
• Generate and select ambitious vocabulary from word banks.
• Use inverted commas accurately to punctuate direct speech.
• Improvise, create and write dialogue between characters.
• Plan and discuss ideas before writing using story maps, vocabulary collection and other planning formats.
• Read and analyse Paddington stories to help plan and write their own versions.
• Create and develop plots based on familiar story structures.
• Proofread and edit their work to improve spelling, grammar and punctuation.

This unit will encourage children to write creatively, develop their understanding of story structure, and build confidence in using a range of sentence types and writing techniques.

                                                                                                         

                                              

 

Maths

Throughout the year, in maths, we will be following the Red Rose Year 3 Mastery. This half-term, we will be looking at multiplication, division,time and 3D shapes.

If you need any support with the maths units we are covering this term (in regards to any homework that maybe linked to maths), please don't hesitate to contact me via dojo or, speaking to me before or after school.  

Science

                                              

                                                                                   

Foundation Subjects

PE this half term will be on a Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  The children can come to school on these days in their school PE kits.  However, when the weather is colder the children can come in dark coloured tracksuit/joggers.

In RE, we will be looking at Islam.  

In Geography we will be looking at UK Counties.

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Other Useful Information.

Homework will be given out every Friday, to be handed in on the following Thursday.  Children know the expectations are to try and read three times a week (I've said I don't expect them to finish a book but at least 15 minutes each read). If they complete their homework and read, they will be rewarded with Class Dojos and go in the weekly draw for a prize.

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