This year we will embark on trips or engage in workshops that link with our topics of learning. These include:

Autumn:

- Butser Farm. This is an archaeological open air museum where children will have the opportunity to participate in archaeological digs and create pottery.  The approximate cost of this trip is £27 a child.

- The Science Dome will also be paying us a visit this term to help ignite our science learning of rocks and soils. The approximate cost of this visit is £3.50 a child.

Spring:

- The children will have an opportunity to participate in a Roman Workshop where an expert will tell them all about life as a Roman. The approximate cost of this trip is £7 a child. This will coincide with our Roman dress-up day - homemade costumes encouraged!

Summer:
- Each year group has the opportunity to visit one of the parks that has inspired our school team names. Year Three visits Painshill Park where the children will have fun practising orienteering skills and learning about seed dispersal. The approximate cost of this trip is £20.

- The children will take part in Sports Day at Kingsmeadow this term. The children will be practising the races in their PE lessons, so this is a chance for them to showcase their skills and cheer on their teammates! This event has no cost, but children will need to be dropped at Kingsmeadow.

 

There may be additional workshops over the year which link to themed events or occasions the school is celebrating. For many of these trips, we will need parent helpers so do make yourself known to the class teacher if you are available.

Swimming and PE

Swimming (Autumn 1 and Summer Term)/ Indoor PE:

3W – Monday

3FB – Tuesday

3S – Tuesday

 

Outdoor PE:

3S- Monday

3FB- Wednesday

3W- Friday

Alongside Year Two, the children will participate in a Winter Performance. This will be at the end of the Autumn Term and parents/carers will be invited to attend. There will be further opportunities to see your children perform in two assemblies (one in the Autumn Term and one in the Summer Term).

We appreciate how important the home school link is, so in Year Three we offer three open afternoons to showcase some of the children’s learning.

In Year Three, children are still expected to read at least three times a week and have their reading record signed. These will be checked every Thursday.

Home Learning will be on Google Classroom and is set on Thursdays and is due the following Tuesday. Your child will be expected to complete spellings, punctuation and grammar and Mathletics. This year, children will be encouraged to utilise Times Tables Rock Stars therefore it would be greatly appreciated if you support your child to access this resource.

Furthermore, a simple way to support your child is to make sure they have a pencil case with a pencil, colouring pencils, a ruler and a glue stick. This will ensure they can complete their learning more efficiently. 

We will also be having a sewing day where we will be in need of parent helpers and we are also always looking for additional adults to come into school to read with the children.

Ideas to help your child at home:

English:

1. Continue to make time to read to your child as often as you can, or listen to books read aloud. This will support their vocabulary and comprehension skills. Talk about any new vocabulary that you come across – and use it together later.

2. Encourage your child to read as much as possible – seeing words in print really helps children to absorb correct spelling and grammar and punctuation. Talk about the books your child reads. Have they liked them? What might happen next? You could get them to write a book review for the class.

3. Listen to your child read as often as possible. Try to read their school reading book as well as other books they have chosen for themselves. Occasionally, without slowing the story too much, point out conjunctions or adverbs, and the punctuation for speech. When reading non-fiction, ask your child to point out headings, captions and key words.

4. Practise spellings. Play games with your child to help them learn their weekly spelling words. Print out and work on the Spelling word list for Year 3 (see Google Classroom).

5. Create writing opportunities, such as mini non-fiction books, chapter books or a graphic novel. Encourage your child to write the story of a favourite film or television series.

Ask them to tell you stories they have made up or to retell favourite or well-known tales or personal anecdotes. Get them to write with pencil and paper or on the computer – playing around with fonts and pictures. Find unusual objects or facts that your child could use as a story starting point.

6. Encourage your child to talk to you. Gently correct any grammar mistakes, and help them to extend what they say with conjunctions such as because, after, where and to choose a or an correctly. Challenge them to use new vocabulary and to retell stories to you or tell you anecdotes about their life.

7. Keep talking to your child and use interesting vocabulary when doing so. Try to use precise nouns, descriptive adjectives and adverbs.

8. Keep practising handwriting – support your child as they start to join letters correctly.

Useful websites:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/punctuation

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy/

Maths:

1. Represent numbers creatively

Showing numbers in interesting ways really helps your child to understand number and place value. You could try using symbols to represent numbers with your child. For example:

143 could be represented by Δ IIII ΟΟΟ, where Δ represents 100, I represents 10, and Ο represents 1.

See if your child can come up with their own pictures to represent hundreds, tens, and ones. Then, see if you can figure out what numbers they are writing using their new system. You could then use their system yourself, and see if they can work out which numbers you have written down.

2. Compare and order numbers

When comparing numbers up to 1000, your child should look at the digit with the largest value first. For example, if your child is comparing the numbers 765 and 276, they would first need to look at the digit with the largest value, i.e. the hundreds digit:

276 has 2 hundreds, and 765 has 7 hundreds, so 276 is less than 765.

However, if we compare the numbers 765 and 754, they both have the same number of hundreds. Therefore, we now need to look at the tens digit:

765 has 6 tens, and 754 only has 5 tens, so 765 is more than 754.

Try this game to practise comparing numbers. Write twenty two- and three-digit numbers and the ‘>’ and ‘<’ symbols on separate pieces of paper. Deal your child two numbers, face down. Ask them to turn over the pieces of paper and to use the ‘>’ and ‘<’ symbols to show which number is bigger or smaller.

3. Learn multiplication facts

In Year 3, it’s important that your child is able to recall multiplication facts. We will focus on the 3, 4, and 8 times tables. They are already familiar with the 2, 5, and 10 times tables, but we will still practise them.

Games such as bingo, snap, and pairs can be adapted to focus on times tables. They make great short, quick-fire games that can be fitted in at any time of the day. For example, you could make some cards with times tables on half and their answers on the other half to play snap with when you are out and about.

Useful websites:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

https://www.j2e.com/j2blast

For letters applicable to all year groups, please click here.

Year 3 Letters:

Author visit - Thursday, 26th September

Year 3-6 Biathlon - Friday, 27th September

Head lice

Year 3 Curriculum Newsletter - Autumn 2024

Year 3 - Class assemblies

Year 3 - Science dome visit

Phonics & Reading workshop - Tuesday, 15th October 2024

Butser Farm - Friday, 25th October

3S Ukulele Performance