Welcome to Year Three

We are so excited to welcome you into Year Three. We are sure the children are excited about joining Key Stage Two and looking forward to the start of term. We have lots of fun things planned for us to do and learn.

Miss Boyd is your class teacher on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Wood is your class teacher on a Thursday and Friday.

Mrs Wrigley is our teaching assistant and will be with you all week.

What can you expect in Year Three?

The times of the school day are still exactly the same as Year Two. Please bring a water bottle in every day. We have one morning break where you can bring your own healthy snack in (the fruit scheme is for EYFS and KS1 only).

Our PE days are a Monday and Thursday but it is better to keep your kit in school all week in case there are any changes to the timetable.

Reading

Reading is an important part of your child’s education. We will do daily Guided Reading sessions but your support at home is invaluable. We want to encourage a love of reading and would like every child to have two books with them in school. One will be their banded reading book which can be changed daily if required. You will find a special reading reward chart in the front of your child’s reading record. The other book can be from the school library or a book from home that they might be reading (please ensure names are in books from home). Please aim to bring these books in daily.

Homework

Spellings will be sent home on a Friday. There will be 8 words that focus on a particular spelling rule/pattern each week plus 2 common exception words to learn. Children will complete a spell check quiz on a Friday. See files below for this half term’s spellings.

Times Tables are also a crucial part of developing your child’s mathematical knowledge. By the end of Year Three, children should be able to recall the multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables. We will practise times tables regularly through games, quizzes and Times Tables Rockstars but your support at home is invaluable. You will find your TTRS login in your Reading Record.

Although reading, spellings and times tables are our weekly focus and benefit from regular practise at home, we will also be complementing our curriculum with a selection of homework activities. These will be provided on a grid each half term. You can choose as many activities to complete as you like and ask that any completed activities are handed in at the end of each half term.

What are we learning in Year Three?

During Autumn term, our topic is The Stone Age. We will be time travelling back hundreds of thousands of years ago to the time when humans began to use tools made from stone. See The Stone Age knowledge organiser in files below for more information about what we are learning.

In Maths, we will be exploring the place value of 3-digit numbers, learning to add and subtract 3-digit numbers, and multiply and divide using the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables. We also have a half-termly Key Instant Recall Fact (KIRF) which is a skill to be learnt each half term. Please see files below for this term’s KIRFs.

In English, we will write a narrative based on the text ‘The Stone Age Boy’. We will study explanation texts in our non-fiction unit of work and create our own explanation of how a Teacher-Pleaser machine works.

In Science, we will be learning about rocks and soils and compare and group together different kinds of rocks. We will also be learning about how animals and humans get their nutrition and how skeletons and muscles work.

In RE, our first unit of work is Creation and Covenant. We will explore God’s amazing creation in more depth through the book of Genesis and consider how to care for God’s world. Our second unit of work is Prophecy and Promise. We will look at the structure of the Mass and study the events leading up to the birth of Jesus.

We will also be learning lots more through Art, PSHE, Music, MFL, Computing and PE.

There is plenty more information about the curriculum on our year group curriculum page https://www.st-pauls-hyde.tameside.sch.uk/page/curriculum-information/5603 

We are here to support you and your families. We are always available at the end of the day for a chat or to answer any questions. You can also contact us on the school email address: admin@st-pauls-hyde.tameside.sch.uk or telephone 0161 368 2934, for a longer chat at a convenient time.

Miss Boyd, Mrs Wood and Mrs Wrigley