Year 3 - Larch and Willow
Larch Class: Class Teachers are Mrs Marriott/Mrs Ansell and Teaching Assistant is Mrs Standage.
Willow Class: Class Teacher is Miss Thomas and Teaching Assistant is Mrs Howlett.
Reading books:
At Bushmead we believe that reading is one of the most important skills the children have to acquire. From the beginning, we encourage parents to become fully involved in helping their child to learn to read. The teaching of reading is focused around the Little Wandle phonics scheme and the associated levelled books. It is also supported by a wide range of other reading material both factual and fictional and we are fortunate to have a newly updated and well-stocked selection of books in the library that the children can visit regularly. Please ensure that you read with your child every week night and record this reading in their reading diary. These will be checked by a school adult every morning.
Homework Expectations In Year 3
- Regular reading - 5 times a week
- Spelling practise three times a week, for a weekly test (Friday)
- Times tables (for regular times tables tests at school)
Each child has their own login details for EdShed in their spellings book.
Each child has their own login details for TT rockstars in their timetables books or reading diaries.
(The times table test will include mixed questions from any of the times tables up to 12 x tables but focus particularly on 3, 4 and 8s)
Here are some timetables websites you can use at home...
Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Reminders
* Please label all uniform, coats, bags, lunchboxes and water bottles.
Please ensure that your child is coming to school smartly dressed, in the correct Bushmead uniform. Details of this can be found on our parents tab. Thank you!
PE Days:
Both classes: Thursday and Friday
Please come to school dressed in your PE kits on these days. Just a reminder that PE kits should be PLAIN with no logos (Dark coloured shorts/joggers, plain white t-shirt, dark coloured zip up jacket/jumper)
**Earrings MUST be removed on PE days please!
This Term's learning
Our Summer Term topic is
'All Around The World'
Our Summer term topic is an exciting one where the children learn all about the world in which we live in!
The children will learn all about the 7 continents of the world and various different countries in each one. They will research the culture, language, food and weather of different places around the world.
The children will focus on Aboriginal culture and get to try to create their own Aboriginal Art, using the skill of dot painting. Year 3 will also learn how to use Atlas's to research about different countries and how to draw and read maps.
In Summer Term, the children will also create their own pop-up book in DT, using different mechanisms.
There are lots of fun and practical, exciting lessons!
As part of this topic, we are decorating our display boards with photos of the children when they have been on holiday, UK or abroad. We would love the children to bring in photos (printed is fine!) to add to the board to show everybody. We would love to cover as many countries as we can!
To link with our topic of 'All Around The World, the children begin the term by reading some Aboriginal Folk Tales. They will focus on including a variety of features in their writing, including speech, conjunctions and expanded noun phrases to create their own Aboriginal style folk tale. Later in the term, the children will write their own Autobiography about their lives so far, based on the book 'The boy who touched the stars'.
In the second half of the Summer Term, the children look at Holiday Adverts and how to use persuasion in writing. They will finish the year by writing a Holiday Review.
Year 3 will also continue practising using joined up handwriting across all topics.
In Maths, in Summer Term, the children will continue to learn about fractions. They will learn which fractions are equivalent to each other and also how to add and subtract fractions.
Later on in the term, Year 3 will focus on learning to tell the time. The children will learn the time to 1 minute intervals and will learn about reading both an analogue clock and a digit clock. They will also use this knowledge to answer problem solving questions.
Towards the end of the term, the children will learn about different types of money and how to add and subtract money. They will also learn about statistics and how to read bar charts and pictograms.
We encourage all children to use Times Tables Rock Stars to support with times table knowledge and becoming familiar with all of their times tables.
Useful documents