Year 3

Welcome to Year 3! Mrs McFall, Mr Gray and Mrs Davies are the Year 3 teachers with Miss Pettifor, Miss Ana and Miss Russell 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 Current topic in Year 3 is 'May the force be with you'.

In this unit, children will explore the world of forces and magnets. They will learn that a force is a push or a pull that can make things move, stop, change direction, or change shape. Pupils will investigate how different surfaces affect movement and explore magnetic materials and how magnets work. Through practical investigations, they will discover the properties of magnets, including attraction and repulsion, and learn about magnetic poles.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Identify and describe different types of forces (pushes, pulls, friction).

• Observe how forces affect the movement of objects.

• Explore how surfaces can affect how things move (e.g. smooth vs rough).

• Understand what magnets are and learn that some materials are magnetic.

• Investigate how magnets attract or repel each other.

• Learn about the north and south poles of magnets.

• Carry out fair tests and make simple predictions based on their observations.

Key Vocabulary:

• Force

• Push / Pull

• Friction

• Magnet

• Magnetic / Non-magnetic

• Attract / Repel

• Pole (North Pole / South Pole)

• Surface

• Movement

Working Scientifically Skills:

• Asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways.

• Observing closely, using simple equipment.

• Performing simple tests.

• Identifying and classifying.

• Using observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.

• Gathering and recording data to help answer questions.

 

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.