Year 3
Welcome to Year 3! Mrs McFall, Mr Nicholls and Miss Kockiri are the Year 3 teachers with Miss Pettifor, Mrs Mattu and Mrs Roberts as supporting staff. We want the children in our year group to be happy individuals with a love for learning. We work hard together as a team of adults and children in a supportive, kind environment.
We want our children to love coming into school to learn with us. In Year 3 it is our aim for all children to feel happy, valued and heard. We work hard to ensure all children are included by offering a wide range of teaching approaches and we encourage a team ethos between all children and adults to help us be the best we can be.
Our Autumn 2 topic in Year 3 is 'Twisted Tales'.
This term, our Year 3 topic is Twisted Tales. The children will be exploring the origins, development, and adaptations of well-known classic fairy tales such as The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack and the Beanstalk. They will compare different versions of these traditional stories, looking closely at how characters, settings, and endings can be “twisted” or reimagined in creative ways.
As part of this exciting topic, the children will be developing their storytelling, performance, and drama skills as they work together towards a class performance based on their own twisted versions of these familiar tales.
In maths, we will continue to build on our understanding of addition and subtraction using three-digit numbers, before moving on to explore multiplication and division strategies. The children will apply these skills in a range of problem-solving contexts to deepen their mathematical understanding and confidence.
Our English will focus around books linked to our topic and skills will include:
expanded noun phrase
fronted adverbials for time and place
co-ordinating conjunctions (or, and, but, so, yet)
apostrophe for possession
simile
In Science we will be learning about light. This will include an understanding that darkness is an absence of light and the difference between a light source and a reflector. The children will also consider the impact of UV light and how we need to protect our skin and eyes in the sun.
PLEASE NOTE: - We have P. E. on Wednesday. Both indoor and outdoor P.E. kits are needed this term.
Homework is given every Friday and should be returned the following Monday.
In Year 3 we expect children to read at home every day. Please listen to your child read daily and complete the reading diary.
