Year 3 - Larch and Willow
Larch Class: Class Teachers are Mrs Marriott/Mrs Thornton 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 log in 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 Autumn term topic is
'Stones and Bones'
Our Autumn term topic is an exciting one where the children learn all about the Stone Age! The children will learn about how people used to live their lives as hunter gatherers, as well as learning about different shelters that were made and how inventions developed through to the Iron Age. The children will be lucky enough to see real Stone Age tools and learn about the different animals that lived during this time period. They will also have a go at making a Stone Age pouch and practicing sewing skills. The children will also learn about a variety of food eaten and try to create their own cave paintings.
There are lots of fun and practical, exciting lessons!
To link with our topic of 'Stones and Bones', in English the children are going to be focussing on the book 'Stone Age Boy', written by
Satoshi Kitamura. Here they will discover what travelling back in time to the Stone Age was like for a young boy and what he learnt there. The children will then be able to create their own version of this story.
Later in Autumn Term, the children will be learning the features of a leaflet and how to write persuasively. They will then be advertising their own 'Stone Age' themed adventure park.
In Maths, in Autumn Term, the children will begin the year by learning Place Value. This includes representing numbers up to 1000, displaying numbers on a number line and partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens and ones.
Later on in the term, the children will learn addition and subtraction, where they will learn to use the column method to add and subtract numbers up to 1000 and use the inverse to check their answers.
To finish Autumn Term, the children will begin a topic of multiplication and division. In Year 3, they will focus on learning and becoming fluent in the 3, 4 and 8 times tables and recognising the inverse.
Useful documents