YEAR 3
SPRING TERM 2017
Information Booklet
Year 3 Team:
Mrs S Judge
Teacher Cover
Mrs J Nicklin
Teaching Assistant
Miss P Nudd
Class Teacher
(email [email protected])
This pamphlet informs you about the curriculum which your child will be covering this term.
We hope this information will enable you to be further involved with your child’s education.
How to help
Needed in school every day: Reading book, Reading Record, Home-School Liaison Book,
Water Bottle, Wellies, PE kits (indoor and outdoor). Y3 PE is timetabled for Monday
afternoon.
Other information:
 School Uniform is now purchased on-line. Book bags, however, are available to
purchase from the school office. (£4.60)
Please ensure that all items are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
 Lunches:
 School Dinner: All children in Early Years, Year 1 and Year 2 are entitled to a cooked
school meal, free of charge. For y3 and y4 children, the cost is £2.15 per day,
(£10.75 per week).
 Packed Lunch: It is helpful for children bringing a packed lunch, to place their own
lunch box on the trolley before school, so that they can find it easily at lunchtime.
Please ensure that your child knows whether they are having packed lunch or
school dinner, each day. (This is important because school dinners have to be
ordered from the kitchen which supplies our school, by 9:20)
 Reading: please try to read with your child each day and record what has been read,
together with any comment you would like to add and your initials or signature, in the
reading record book. It is sometimes appropriate for books to be re-read to develop
fluency and expression in reading aloud. Library books may be changed weekly, on the
day timetabled for the class, (Tuesday), and are based around interest rather than
reading level.
 Homework: This term, homework for Y3 will consist of weekly tests of spellings and
tables or number facts; tests will be on Mondays. In addition, there will be a regular task
which involves a piece of research or development work around our whole school topic
e.g. researching some of our key questions, or a task which develops and builds on
what we have studied in school.
 Curriculum: Each of the subject headings covers a wide variety of activities. Some
subjects are taught separately, but within the termly topic shared by the whole school,
links between knowledge and skills are promoted across all areas and pupils are
encouraged to develop independent learning. We hope this overview provides you with
the opportunity to share activities with your child and may encourage you to share
activities linked to the topic, outside of school.
English:
Reading: In Year 3, pupils should be
able to read books accurately and at
a speed that is sufficient for them to
focus on understanding what they
read rather than on decoding
individual words. Teaching is directed
more towards developing the breadth
and depth of their reading, making
sure that they become independent,
fluent and enthusiastic readers.
Writing: Pupils should be able to write
down their ideas with a reasonable
degree of accuracy and with good
sentence punctuation. We build on
writing skills, vocabulary, sentence
structure and knowledge of linguistic
terminology through a weekly ‘Big
Write’. Pupils will understand how
writing can be different from speech
and joined handwriting should be the
norm. Pupils should be able to use it
quickly enough to keep pace with
what they want to say and write, from
memory, simple sentences dictated
by the teacher.
Spelling: Pupils’ spelling of common
words should be correct, including
exception words and other words that
they have learnt and they will use the
first two or three letters of a word to
check its spelling in a dictionary
As in key stage 1, pupils who are still
struggling to decode need to be
taught to do this through a rigorous
and systematic phonics programme,
so that they catch up with their peers.
If they cannot decode independently
and fluently, they will find it
increasingly difficult to understand
what they read and to write down
what they want to say.
RHYTHMS OF THE WORLD
Science:
Pupils will broaden their scientific view of the world
through exploring, talking about, testing and
developing ideas about everyday phenomena and
the relationship between living things and familiar
environments. They will ask questions about what
they observe, carry out simple comparative and fair
tests. Year 3 topics this term are; Rocks and Soils
inc. a simple understanding of fossilisation and
Forces and Magnets. This work will be linked with
our topic wherever possible.
Design & Technology:
Through a variety of creative and practical topic based
activities, pupils will be taught to design and make,
evaluate, modify and improve products that solve real
and relevant problems.
Values: From this term, we are changing our Values
half termly, rather than monthly. This term our two
values are Courage, e.g. stepping out of your comfort
zone or trusting God’s promises and Forgiveness, e.g.
wiping the slate clean or forgiving others as God has
forgiven you
Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning: (SEAL)
Our SEAL topics this term are ‘’Going for Goals’ and
‘Good to be Me’.
Music: This term the focus for our music lessons will
be the build up to the “In This Together” Big Spring
Sing Concert. Pupils will be taught to sing with
increasing confidence and control.
French: in y3 pupils focus on speaking.
They practise ways to greet each other, count,
ask and answer simple questions, and name
colours and familiar places and objects.
Computing: In KS2 children are taught how
to use the technology safely and responsibly,
to design and write programmes to solve
problems, to understand how networks offer
opportunities for communication and
collaboration, how to search effectively and
how to select and use software.
Geography: Pupils will be taught to extend
their knowledge and understanding beyond
the local area to include the United Kingdom
and Europe, North and South America. This
will include the location and characteristics of
a range of the world’s most significant human
and physical features.
History: Through our topic, pupils will
continue to develop a knowledge and
understanding of British, local and world
history and ask and answer questions about
change, cause, similarity, difference and
significance. They will see how our
knowledge of the past comes from a range of
sources.
RE: This term pupils will study two units from the
Diocesan resource: Understanding Christianity.
One unit asks the question ‘What did disciples
give up to follow Jesus – what would we give up?’
We will look at church leaders and how they talk
about Jesus. The second unit asks ‘Why do
Christians call the day Jesus died ‘Good Friday?’
and we will learn how Christians show their beliefs
about Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter
Sunday in worship.
Y3 and Y4 pupils will also take the Queen’s Park,
Bedford, Three Faiths tour and visit a Gurdwara, a
Mosque and a Church, all within walking distance
of each other.
Maths: This term, we again focus on
number and place value to solve problems
including missing number sums, involving
multiplication and division, using the
multiplication tables we know. Pupils will
write and calculate mathematical
statements for multiplication and division
using mental, and progressing to formal
written methods.
They will tell and write the time from an
analogue clock, including using Roman
numerals and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks
and record and compare time using secs,
mins and hours. Pupils will also compare
durations of events (for example to
calculate the time taken by particular
events or tasks).
We will find and write fractions of sets of
objects and add and subtract fractions and
count up and down in tenths, recognising
that tenths arise from dividing an object
into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit
numbers or quantities by 10.
Art & Design:
Pupils should be taught to develop their
techniques, including their control and
their use of materials, with creativity,
experimentation and an increasing
awareness of different kinds of art, craft
and design.
PE: This term in PE, Year 3 children will
again be focusing on developing the core
skills of movement – agility, balance, coordination and spatial awareness. They will
take part in activity challenges, both
individually and as part of a team. Lessons
will be outdoors as much as possible.
Children will also develop their strength,
control and balance in gymnastics and
dance, evaluating, enhancing and improving
on their performances.
Spring Term 2017
Date
4th
January
6th
9th
12th
20th
25th – 27th Jan
27th
February
10th
10th
20th
21st
24th
March
3rd
8th
10th
17th
21st
21st & 22nd
23rd
24th
29th
31st
April
4th
5th
7th
April
7th
24th
24th
Event
Term commences for children
Values Day and
Care of Environment Activities
Urban Safari Animal Experience
Caterlink Assembly/Cookery
Workshop
Family Praise Assembly
9.00 a.m. – School Hall
Scholastic Book Fair
School Hall 3.15 – 4.00 p.m.
Y3 Showing Assembly
2.30 p.m. in the School Hall
Y4 Showing Assembly
2.30 p.m. in the School Hall
Break for Half Term
Children return to school
African Drumming Workshops
Family Praise Assembly
9.00 a.m. – School Hall
Y2 Showing Assembly
2.30 p.m. in the School Hall
KS2 Spring Sports Festival
Lincroft Middle School
10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.
Super Learning Afternoon
Y1 Showing Assembly
2.30 p.m. in the School Hall
Queen’s Park Faith Tour
Bedford
Years 3 & 4 “In This Together”
Big Spring Sing Concert
The Kings House, Bedford 7.00 p.m.
PTA Mother’s Day Gift Shop
Family Praise Assembly
9.00 a.m. – School Hall
Reception Showing Assembly
2.30 p.m. in the School Hall
KS1 Spring Sports Festival
Sharnbrook Upper School
12.30 – 2.30 p.m.
Parent Consultation
4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Parent Consultation
6.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.
Easter Church Service
2.00 p.m.
Break for Easter
Children return to school
KS2 Swimming
Block of 8 weekly lessons
1.30 p.m. -2.30 p.m.
Notes
Wellies required
Parents invited to attend
Y3 Parents invited to attend
Y4 Parents invited to attend
Parents invited to attend
Y2 Parents invited to attend
Full Outdoor PE Kit, water bottle
and packed lunch required
Details to follow
Y1 Parents invited to attend
Years 3 and 4
Details to follow
Details to follow by separate letter
Details to follow
Parents invited to attend
Reception Parents invited to
attend
Full Outdoor PE Kit, water bottle
and packed lunch required
Details to follow by separate letter
Details to follow by separate letter
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