Autumn Curriculum Booklet – Year 3

Adults in Year 3

Miss Duffin
Mr Lee

Miss Duffin – 3D Teacher
Mrs Smith – 3D Teaching Assistant

Mr Lee – 3L Teacher
Mrs Mooney – 3L Teaching Assistant

3L Class Cover – Mrs Holland

Mathematics

  • Counting, place value, partitioning and calculating: reading and writing numbers, addition and subtraction facts to twenty; multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10; mental strategies for adding and subtracting one, two and three digit numbers; find simple fractions; adding and subtracting simple fractions; doubling and halving; multiplying by a single digit number.
  • Securing number facts and understanding shape: solving word problems; describing and extending number sequences; recognising 2-D and 3-D shapes.
  • Handling data and measures: measuring in centimetres and metres; reading and displaying information using pictograms; frequency tables, bar charts and sorting diagrams; reading and writing time.

English

  • School council manifestos
  • Literacy tree based units using books such as ‘The Wilderness’
  • Sentence construction and punctuation: developing continuous, cursive handwriting; learning spelling patterns and rules and applying these independently. Using speech punctuation, a range of conjunctions and sentence openers.
  • VIPERS

Science and Outdoor Learning

  • Rocks and Soils
  • Orienteering
  • Year group garden

Geography

  • Locality of the school including mapping skills.

Computing

  • Safe use of the Internet
  • Logging on and use of Teams
  • Typing Skills: using a touch type program to develop fast and accurate typing skills
  • Manipulating text; learning to use a word processor to present work

Design & Technology

  • Introduction to cooking skills and food hygiene

French

  • This term we will be introducing the children to simple French phrases.

Art

  • Artist study of Seurat and pointillism
  • Geodes (zentangles & water colours)
  • Exploration of colour, texture and pattern

Art activities – Please keep an old shirt or apron in school at all times.

Music

  • Ukelele sessions with Berkshire Music Trust
  • Preparation for the Christmas production

Physical Education

  • Invasion Games: developing sending and receiving ball skills; applying these to games and different sports.
  • Gym – balancing on and jumping off equipment.
  • Hockey

PE lessons will be on Monday and Wednesday. PE kits to be worn into school on these days.

Religious Education

  • Introduction to Sikhism
  • The Christmas story

PSHE

  • Being me in my world: ‘Who am I and how do I fit in?’
  • Celebrating difference: Respect for similarity and difference. Anti-bullying and being unique

P4C (Philosophy for Children)

  • P4C themes will vary according to the topics and interests of the children. With the teacher as facilitator, the children will be working collaboratively to create relevant questions, give reasons for opinions and discuss the validity of those opinions, develop a sense of trust, tolerance and fair-mindedness and to promote reflective thinking.

Homework

  • Reading – We recommend reading 5 times a week for at least 10 minutes. This should be recorded in the homework diary.
  • Times tables – Children will be tested on their times tables on Monday mornings, every week. They should be regularly practising the level that they are working on for 20 minutes a week.
  • Spellings – 5 new spellings will be handed out each Thursday and an activity from the grid should be completed by Tuesday.
  • Curriculum Homework (20-25 minutes a week) – This will cover various subjects such as Reading Comprehension, Maths Calculations, History/ Geography Quiz or Task, Science Quiz or Task, Arts Quiz or Task, Games Week, Half Term Review.
  • Other homework will be starting in due course.

Please check your child’s homework diary regularly and sign it at the end of each week. Please record every time you read with your child.  If your child has any difficulty with their homework, please record this in their diary.

Key Diary Dates

Harvest Festival – Friday 9th October at 2.15pm
Parents’ Evening – Monday 5th , Monday 12th and Wednesday 14th October
Decoration Day – Monday 30th November
Year 3 Play – Monday 14th December (afternoon) & Tuesday 15th December (evening)
Carol Service – Thursday 17th December
Christmas Jumper Day – Friday 18th December