Year 3

Welcome to Year 3

Useful Documents 

Year 3 Summer 2

Dear Parents and carers,

I wish you a warm welcome back and hope that you had a restful break with your families. We will continue to remind children about our school values of Respect, Good Manners, Patience, Perseverance and Honesty.  We will use our reward system 'Brookhouse Monsters University' to recognise good behaviour and attitudes. If your child is in the winning University team, they will be given a reward at the end of the term.

At the top of this page you will find Year 3’s previous and current homework grids, which heavily focuses on reading and times table practice. You will also find Year 3’s previous and current knowledge organisers, which will prepare your child for topic quizzes that take place every week. We will have a quiz of quizzes at the end of the term to celebrate all the learning taken place across the whole curriculum so far.

We have a very busy but exciting term ahead of us with lots of activities and events taking place. The children will be visiting Ribchester Museum on the 27th June where we will be learning all about the Romans and exploring the Roman Baths. Please note that payment for the trip can be made online through the School Money app.

Our topic for this term is 'How Does Your Garden Grow?

Homework

Please encourage your child to complete their homework each week. Homework is given out on a Friday and is expected to be completed and returned no later than the following Wednesday. As well as completing the homework on the homework grid, your child will be given a list of words to explore on a weekly basis for our Whole Class Reading sessions. It is really important that your child completes this work so that they are ready to access the text that we will be reading the following week.

All children are familiar with using the online learning platforms such as Reading Plus, Purple Mash, Spag.com and TTRS, therefore your child should be able to login and complete any tasks assigned independently. You may feel your child is a fluent reader, however it is still crucial that you read with your child as much as possible at home to support their phonics and comprehension of different texts.

English

Our focus for English this term will be 'Classic Poetry'. To begin with, we will immerse the children in a variety of poems, particularly focusing on The Spider and The Fly by Mary Howitt. The children will read and perform the poem using drama techniques such as tone, intonation and volume. We will then move onto identifying and exploring the definitions of the archaic vocabulary used in Classical Poetry. We will be exploring the characters in the poems and then begin to plan and write our innovated Classic poems. We will conclude by writing our own independent classic poems using the using the 'Talk for Writing' strategy. 

Whole Class Reading will continue to take place every day, through which we encourage children to focus on new vocabulary in the text and the comprehension of the text. 

The school has purchased a three year subscription with an online reading resource called Reading Plus, which improves pupils' reading age but it does rely on the children using this resource on a regular basis.  Please make sure they are using it at home.  Please support your children in their reading of school books, at home for ten minutes every day.  We will continue to encourage children to improve their Oracy skills through participating in the project Voice 21.

Maths

Our Maths lessons will provide pupils with the opportunity to learn using concrete, pictorial and abstract models. They will then learn to apply this knowledge to reasoning and problem solving - QUACK (Please ask your children what this means). This term we will be exploring angles, they will begin by making and finding angles in shapes, then learn how to name certain angles, specifically right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles. They will compare angles to one another and then describe turns using both angles and fractions . We will then move onto lines and shapes. We will be exploring the different types of lines in addition to properties of shapes, both 2D and 3D. We will be identifying perpendicular and parallel lines, followed by horizontal and vertical lines. We will then move on to describing 2D shapes and 3D shapes. Once pupils master the basic concepts of angles and shapes they will start to look at problem solving questions and practice bar models based on what they have been learning. There will also be an opportunity for online learning via Purple Mash. Please encourage your child to practice their timetables at home. It is really important that your child learns their times tables, in order to aid them with this, your child can use the online program 'Times Table Rock Stars'.

Science

We will continue to look at plants this term. We will focus on the life cycle of flowering plants including pollination, seed dispersal and germination. Throughout this topic, the children will work scientifically and carry out various experiments and investigations to understand the role of each part of a plant. At the beginning of each session we will deliver a quiz to test key learning, your child can prepare themselves by revising the Science Knowledge Organiser.

DT

In DT, we will be designing, creating and evaluating a prototype for our own windowsill herb pots. We will experiment using different joining and strengthening techniques.

PE

PE will take place on a Thursday afternoon. Please ensure that your child has their earrings removed or covered by plasters from home on this day. The correct PE uniform must also be worn: Yellow PE shirt, black PE shorts or jogging bottoms and black pumps. Year 3 will have swimming lessons every Wednesday at Blackburn Leisure Centre. Please ensure your child brings in a towel, swimming cap, and a swimming costume or swimming trunks. Children should come to school in their PE kits.  

Geography

In Geography we will be naming and locating the major cities in the UK. We will look at the human and physical features of the different regions and then compare Blackburn with a major city, exploring the landscape and human and physical features. We will learn how to read and understand OS maps and find specific locations using the eight compass points . 

PSHE

In PSHE we will be focusing on 'Keeping Safe' this term. We will be looking at what makes a healthy and positive relationship and how to maintain good friendships. We will also look at how we can listen to each other respectfully. Children will have the opportunity to share and discuss any concerns or worries they may have during these sessions.  

If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to discuss these with us at the beginning or end of the school day. Alternatively, you can arrange an appointment through the school office. As always, we all hope you stay healthy, safe and most importantly stay happy!

From all the Year 3 Team, 

Ms Begum (Class Teacher)

Mrs Khonat (HLTA)

Miss Read (SSA)