YEAR 3

PE DAY: Monday

We are excited to welcome Year 3 back to school! On this page you will find information detailing what your child will be learning this year along with useful information and updates.

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Autumn Dates

Harvest festival: 19/10/23

Remembrance assembly: 10/11/23

Children In Need: 17/11/23

Elf Run: 15/12/23

Curriculum Overview: Autumn Term

English

Writing:

We follow the Pathways to Write and Pathways to Read schemes. In writing, in Autumn 1, we will explore the book ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin. Our writing outcome will be writing a letter. In Autumn 2, we will be discovering the book ‘Winter’s Child’ by Angela McAllister. We will be writing a narrative.

Reading

In Guided Reading, in Autumn 1, we will be exploring The Book ‘The Sea Book’, by Charlotte Milner. This will link with our English book ‘Seal Surfer’. We will discuss the features of this nonfiction text and discuss how this helps the reader. We will be using our retrieval skills to collect information. In Autumn 2, we will be reading ‘The Ice Palace’ by Robert Swindells. We will be learning to draw inferences about characters.

Englsh

Maths

At school, we follow the Power Maths scheme. This term we will be focusing on place value. We will be learning about addition, subtraction , multiplication and division operations.

We want your children to become competent mathematicians and to have a good understanding of numbers and maths calculations (+, -, x and ÷). Please help your child to count in steps and practise times tables at home. It is important that children fluently know their multiplication and division facts matching the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables.

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Science

In Science we will be learning about Animals including Humans. We will be looking at what humans need to survive and how our skeletons and muscles help us to move.

Design & Technology

In Design and Technology, we will be researching bridges. We will design, make and evaluate the effectiveness of our bridges.

Art and Design

the effectiveness of our bridges. In Art, we will be using sketching skills to create a Winter’s scene.

Topic

This term our topic is “Where is Crewe and how has it changed?” We will be learning about UK cities and discussing how our local area has changed over times. We will conduct a survey and use fieldwork skills to find out information about our local area. This topic will be heavily based on map work skills. We will learn about physical and human features and how the features of Crewe have changed over time.

Homework

Children are required to read daily, and record on BoomReader (GoRead, online) at least 3 times a week, as part of their homework to improve their basic reading skills. Children have access to logins for BoomReader.

They also need to practise their weekly spellings which will be given out on a Monday.

It is important that children fluently know their multiplication and division facts matching the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables. Children are required to practise their times tables at home. They have logins for Times table rock stars to practise these facts.