Welcome to Year 3!

Class Teachers: Mr Cranstone and Mrs Hawley
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Sessions

Mr Cranstone teaches Year 3 Monday to Wednesday and Mrs Hawley teaches Year 3 on Thursdays and Fridays.

Key Information

• PE Lessons: Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Please make sure that your child comes in with the appropriate kit at the start of each half term and that each item is clearly labelled.

• Reading records will be checked every Monday morning.

Children need to be reading at least 3 times a week and each read needs to be signed off by an adult.

If you would like to support with the development of your child's comprehension, please ask them questions about what they have read, and discuss their answers with them - how did they reach that answer; what led them to their conclusion?

• Spellings will be tested every Monday morning.

Each week will have a different focus; for example, adding the -s suffix to root words ending with a y. We are also encouraging the children to use the 'look, say, cover, write, check' method to help with the learning of their given words.

• Please make sure your child is practicing their times tables as often as possible.

At the end of Year 4, the children will complete the statutory assessment of their tables knowledge. By the end of Year 3, children are expected to be fluent with the following tables: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10.

We hope the children will also have started, or be confident with, the 6's and 9's by the time they move into Year 4.

Summer Term

Imagine a secret garden...

What can you see and touch? What can you smell and taste? What can you hear and how does it make you feel?

We are going to be reading an abridged version of 'The Secret Garden' and developing our descriptive writing skills while using our imagination to create our own secret garden. We will be creating fact files and writing instructions on how to look after a plant, which compliments our learning in Science this term about flowering plants and plant growth. 

In History, we will be learning about everyday life as a Roman and how the Roman's coming to Britain impacted people's lives. In Art, we will be exploring Roman Mosaics and creating our own mosaic patterns.

In Design Technology, we will learn about pneumatic systems in conjunction with simple levers to control movement and use this knowledge to plan, create and evaluate our own moving monsters!