Year 3
Welcome Event Year 3 - Tuesday 10th Sep 2024
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The Wider Curriculum
Science: In Science, we will be exploring the question, 'Are rocks important to our lives?' We will be looking at different types of rocks and grouping and comparing them based on their properties. We will also be spending time in our wonderful Forest School where we will be investigating soils. At the end of our unit of learning, we will explore fossils and the work of the famous Dorset palaeontologist, Mary Anning.
Geography: This half term, we will be developing our map reading skills by locating different countries in Europe. We will be expanding our knowledge of the world to learn about the environmental regions, physical and human characteristics of these countries and identifying their capital cities. We will learn how to describe the locations of these countries in relation to each other using the eight directions on a compass.
DT: In design and technology, we will be understanding and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet, and children will respect different cultures and their cuisines by tasting a variety of Asian cuisines and exploring a wide range of ingredients, discovering new flavours that they like and testing different combinations before designing their final product- a samosa. The children will make their own samosa and enjoy tasting it to identify what went well and what they would change to make their product better the next time.
Jigsaw: This half term's Jigsaw will be Celebrating Difference. We are considering appreciating and respecting the people who care about us. We are also looking at the importance of kindness and consideration for the implications of our words and actions. We will also learn to solve conflict using the Talk It, Solve It technique, to enable all members of our school community to feel respected and a sense of belonging.
RE: RE this term will focus on the religion on 'Islam'. We will be learning about the importance of the Qur'an for Muslims and how it helps them to remember to pray and submit to Allah. We will delve into why Muslims trust in and obey Allah as well as their beliefs and stories about the Islamic religion, and how this impacts their daily life.
English
English:
Reading- During the Autumn term we will be reading the Worst Witch by Jill Murphy.
We will be developing our skills learnt in the first half term, through retrieving, interpreting characters thoughts and feelings, predicting what will happen next in stories, ordering events and looking at the authors choices and the effect this has on the reader.
Our reading for pleasure book this half term is: The Explorer by Katherine Rudell.
Some other books children may be interested in around our topics and book of authors being read in school this half term are:
Writing- In our writing unit, we are going be using our guided reading book, The Worst Witch to support our understanding of time conjunctions, imperative verbs and organisational devices to write with a purpose to instruct our reader. We will use passages from the text to inspire our writing about how to fly a broom and how to create a potion at Miss Cackles Academy.
Handwriting- Handwriting this term will focus on double letters, verbs/verb endings and certain English skills. E.g. Onomatopoeia, tongue twisters and similes. We will also be focusing on language such as animal names, parts of the body and weather. In these sessions the children will have the opportunity to focus on how they structure their words and the technicality behind cursive writing.
Spelling- Spellings this term will focus on a variety of suffixes (e.g. -ness, -ful, -less, -ly), letters that make different sounds (e.g. /s/ sound for the 'c' spelling like in pencil) and a variety of homophones (e.g. Here/hear, be/bee, bare/bear). The children will learn a new spelling rule each week alongside prickly spellings (spellings that do not follow usual spelling patterns also known as tricky words) and homophones.
Reading at KPS - Information for parents
Writing tips
Maths
Maths: In maths we will be developing our knowledge of the four operations using the expanded column methods for addition and subtraction, see below examples below:
Addition: Subtraction:
And our use of arrays to help us with multiplication and place value charts with division later in the year:
We will be looking at this written method alongside practical resources to develop our understanding.
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