Year 3

YEAR 3 2021/22

We have two Year 3 classes, Juniper and Hawthorn and the class teachers are on the right.

At the moment, Ms Dolz is unwell and not in school but we hope she will be back soon.  In the meantime, Ms Tunna is teaching Hawthorn class.

Please take a look at our Twitter account and use #Year3UHPS, #HawthornUHPS  or #JuniperUHPS to see what we have been up to in class.

Top tips for year 3

PE: Thursday is our PE day this term.  Please send your child into school wearing their school PE kit (weather appropriate) on Thursdays.  The children will spend the whole day in PE kit.

Reading books: Please ensure that reading records and reading books are in bags every day to allow children to read to an adult whenever possible.  Reading records are checked regularly and it is the expectation that your child should show their record to their teacher a minimum of once a week.  Once children have finished a reading book, they need to hand that book in  the following morning to be changed along with the reading record.  For some children, changing books will  be daily and for other children who are reading longer texts less frequently but the teacher will still need to see their reading records.  The children will complete Accelerated Reader quizzes on each book that they read.  This enables us to monitor progress and to ensure that the children continue to read books appropriate to their level.

Home learning: We set home learning tasks on Seesaw every Friday.  The home learning tasks are based on what the children have been learning about in school and the expectation is that children complete a minimum of two tasks per week, one English and one Maths, if possible by the following Tuesday.  These home learning tasks are in addition to home reading, Times Tables Rock Stars  (or learning times tables in another way) and Numbots.

Times Table Rock Stars: Children will be tested on times tables at the end of Year 4, by which time they are expected to know all times tables up to 12 X 12.  It would be incredibly beneficial for your child to work on times tables at least once a week at home and Times Table Rock Stars is a fun and effective way to do this.

Spellings: In addition to spelling lessons in class, we will send home a spelling activity most weeks on Seesaw with a list of words to learn.  These lists will be made up of a mixture of spelling pattern words and Y3/4 statutory words.  The Y3/4 statutory word list is attached and the children are expected to know all of these words by the end of Year 4.

Water bottles: Your child will need a bottle of water in class every day.

Snacks:  Children are encouraged to bring a healthy snack to eat during morning break time.

SUMMER 2

Welcome back to the second half of the Summer Term in Year 3, 2022.  We are looking forward to another exciting half term of learning.  It will be a busy few weeks, leading up to our Platinum Project performance, Sports day and end of year activities.

There will dress rehearsals for the Platinum Project on;
Thursday 16th June – A (Juniper)  1.30-2-15, B (Hawthorn) – 2.20-3.15
Children need to wear school uniform and an orange t-shirt
Tuesday 21st June B-1.30-2.15. A 2.20- 3.15
Children need to wear red ,white and blue and an orange t-shirt
Performance Dates
Wednesday 22nd June – B 10.30- 11.30am A- 1.45-2.45pm
Thursday 23rd June – A 10.30-11.30am B- 1.45-2.45pm

Topics for SUMMER 2

READING AND WRITING IN YEAR 3.

We follow the Pathway to Read and Pathway to Write schemes, by the Literacy Company.  Our topics are linked to these English units including all history, geography, DT and art.  Our Science units are also linked to reading and writing units as much as possible.

In English, we will be following a beautiful text called ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker through which we will “Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book about self-determination – and unexpected friendship”    Most of the children’s writing this half term will be based on this book and their final task will be to write the story , in the 3rd person, using the pictures.  This work will be linked to our new ‘Ancient Civilizations’ topic.

Pathways to Read:  Our text for Summer 2 is “The Illustrated Atlas of Britain and Ireland” by Struan Reid and Megan Cullis.   We introduced this book just before half term using clips from the film ‘Up’ to introduce the ideas of journey and adventure.   We will use a mixture of whole class and grouped reading lessons to explore this lovely atlas.

Our main topic for Summer 2  is  ‘Ancient Civilizations’ (history based topic)

Our Science unit for Summer 2  is ‘Plants’.   We will explore concepts such as plant reproduction, what plants need to grow and  seed dispersal.  The children use  fair testing and observations to explore this topic.

In Maths we use a CPA and Mastery approach, following the Power Maths scheme of work.  Our first unit for Summer 2 will be ‘Statistics’, followed by ‘Length and Perimeter’ then ‘Fractions.’  Please see knowledge organisers for more detail.

Our knowledge organisers give more detail about what the children will be learning and what they need to know.  Knowledge organisers for  Maths, English, Science, Computing, RE and Topic are available on the links to the right.

Thank you for your support, from the Year 3 team.