Useful Documents
Year 3 Spring 2 2024
Dear Parents and carers,
I wish you a warm welcome back after the holidays and hope that you have had a restful break. 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, spelling and times table practice. You will also find Year 3’s previous and current knowledge organisers, which will prepare your child for topic quizzes and will 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.
Our topic for this term is 'The Iron Man'.
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 'Novel as a theme'. We will be exploring The Iron Man by Ted Hughes where the children will be immersed into the story, exploring the settings and characters. They will be looking at the events that occur within the story from both The Iron Man's point of view and Hogarth's point of view. They will then move onto the innovation phase where they will be extracting the plot in the story and innovating it using different characters and settings. The children will then plan and write their independent piece based on the next chapter of the story.
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 looking at money. The children will be naming and showing different amounts of money, adding and subtracting money and then calculating change. Once the children are confident with money they will move onto solving word problems using bar models.
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
Our topic for this term is 'Forces and Magnets' Year 3 will work scientifically to understand what iron is and learn that it can be found in some foods. They will carry out various investigations to understand forces and how things move on different surfaces. They will then go on to investigate magnets, and explore everyday materials that are attracted to magnets. 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
This term we are going to explore mechanical posters. The children will be looking at and evaluating existing products and the mechanisms used. They will be experimenting with different moving mechanisms to decide which mechanisms they prefer. They will then be designing, making and evaluating their own mechanical posters.
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.
We will also be starting our swimming lessons, which will take place on a Wednesday morning. Please ensure that your child brings in their swimming kit. This will need to include a large towel, swimming costume or swimming trunks and a swimming cap. Please put them in a large carrier bag. Jewellery is not permitted, please therefore ensure that earrings are removed before Wednesday.
Geography
In Geography, children will be looking at volcanoes. They will be locating volcanoes in different parts of the world and understand the key features of a volcano and how they affect the local communities. They will then be looking at and explaining the patterns to the formation of volcanoes. The children will then move on to exploring earthquakes and the effects of earthquakes on both physical and human features.
PSHE
Children will have the opportunity to share and discuss any concerns or worries. 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. We will be focusing on 'Families and friends'.
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)