Welcome to Year Three

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

Miss Papps 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 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 will collect all reading records in on a Monday and will check if children have read at least 3 times the previous week. 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 1, we will be time travelling to the Stone Age! We will learn all about what life was like in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periouds of the Stone Age, including learning about hunting for food, cave paintings and making tools. We will also explore how the Stone Age moved to the Bronze Age, then the Iron Age. 

In Maths, we will be learning about the place value of 3-digit numbers, plus how to add and subtract 3-digit numbers using formal written methods. 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 begin with the beautiful book, "The Planet in a Pickle Jar" then move on to writing our own historical narrative based on the book "Stone Age Boy".

In Science, we will be learning about rocks and soils. We will be going on an exciting school trip on this topic on 30th September so keep an eye out for an email about this! 

In RE, our first unit of work is Creation and Covenant. We will be learning all about God's wonderful creation and how we can be stewards of the earth.

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.

Mrs Speck, Mrs Wood and Miss Papps