Hello and welcome to our Year 3 class page!
This page will be updated throughout the year with information about our class, what we are learning about, and pictures of what we have been getting up to!
Year 3 staff
We are lucky to have five adults supporting our class.
We have Miss Muir who is the class teacher.
We have five teaching assistants who help us on different days.
Mrs. Holmes helps us us every morning and all day on Monday and Wednesday.
We have Mrs Worth who helps us all day on Monday and Tuesday as well as supporting us every other morning apart from Friday.
We have Mrs Spiers who helps us on Wednesday afternoon.
Finally, we have Miss Locke and Mrs Hollender who help one member of our class.
Every Morning we practice our spellings ready for our test on Friday. This term we are looking at these spellings
PE
Our PE days this term is Tuesday and Thursday. Please make sure your child has labelled PE kits in school. If your child has pierced ears they should be able to take them out on PE days.
This term we are looking at Invasion Games and Rainforest Dance.
Our Global Theme this term is...
Saving Our Environment
English
This term we have been reading Greta and the Giants. This is a fictional story set in rainforest where the main character Greta becomes a climate activist. We will write a Rainforest story based on this.
Maths
This term we will be looking at:
- Multiplication and Division
- Length and Perimeter
- Fractions
- Mass and Capacity
Below are Knowledge organisers for all 4 of these Topics
| Name | |
|---|---|
| t-m-31330-year-3-length-and-perimeter-knowledge-organiser_ver_11.pdf | Download |
| t2-m-254672-y3-fractions-maths-knowledge-organiser-english_ver_2.pdf | Download |
| t2-m-254758-year-3-mass-and-capacity-maths-knowledge-organiser-english_ver_1.pdf | Download |
| Year 3 Multiplication and Division Maths Knowledge Organiser.pdf | Download |
We'll also be testing ourselves on Times Table Rockstars daily- looking at the 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, 4s and 8s.
4 timestable song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMdE6ghY4CE
8 timestable song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObMCfKQSeUA
Geography
Our Geography topic this term is the Rainforest. We will be looking at the Rainforest locations, the climate, Rainforest animals, Rainforest layers and deforestation. Here is a knowledge organiser of everything we will learn...
Science
This term we be studying the topic of Plants. This will include: Plant parts, Ideal conditions for growth, flowers and seed dispersal.
PSHE
This term we will be looking at the topic of pollution and how our actions can effect the environment around us.
RE
In RE, we will be answering the question What do Christians learn from the Creation story?
We will be looking at the creation story from the bible to answer this question.
Design and Technology
In DT, this term we will be fufilling a design bried to make a mechanical poster to promote recycling. This will involve us testing, designing, making and evaluating our product. Here is a knowledge organiser from the topic.
French
Class 3 are lucky this year to be having Madame Moore every Wednesday teaching the basics in French.
You can find extra resources here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z39d7ty
Music
Another teacher on Wednesdays will be Mrs Featherstone, who will be teaching rhythm through Samba and how to play a Djembe drum.