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Year 3
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Welcome to Year 3
Mrs Eddleston and Mrs Parkhouse make up our Year 3 Team.
Summer Term 2025
English
Our key text for English will be ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. The children will be using this book to write a historical narrative while focusing on using inverted commas, fronted adverbials, writing in paragraphs and starting to use apostrophes for omission. In our reading sessions we will be sharing the books Into the Forest, by Anthony Bowne and UG - Boy genius of the Stone age, by Raymond Briggs. We will continue to work on reading with fluency and expression.
Maths
In Maths we will be focusing on fractions for the final term. We will be covering the following:
- Identifying how many equal parts a whole has been divided into.
- Using fraction notation to describe an equal part of the whole.
- Representing a unit fraction in different ways.
- Identifying parts and wholes in different contexts.
- Comparing and ordering unit fractions by looking at the denominator.
- Identifying when unit fractions cannot be compared.
- Constructing a whole when given one part and the fraction that it represents.
- Using knowledge of the relationship between parts and wholes in unit fractions to solve problems.
Theme
In history we will be looking at changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. We will be finding out about who lived in Britain in the Stone Age and how they survived, how they fed and clothed themselves and why they were nomadic. We will consider how things changed around 4000BC, who the first farmers were and how big the change was from hunter-gatherers to farming. We will also learn about where iron comes from and how iron tools and weapons were made.
Spring Term 2025
English
Our key text in English is ‘Our Tower’, by the children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho. The children will explore the story structure, characters, events, and plot before planning and writing their own adventure narrative. There will be a focus on capital letters for proper nouns, complex sentences, and conjunctions. The children will also be encouraged to use higher-level vocabulary. In reading, we will explore the text The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. The children will continue to develop their inference and retrieval skills. They will predict and ask questions to improve their understanding of the text. They will also draw out the main ideas from a key paragraph.
Maths
In Maths we will continue to think about numbers to 1000 including –
- The relative size of two three-digit numbers can be determined by examining the hundreds digits, then the tens digits and then the ones digits, as necessary.
- Three-digit multiples of ten can be expressed multiplicatively and additively, in terms of tens and hundreds.
- Known facts and strategies for addition and subtraction within and across ten, and within 100, can be used to supports calculation within 1000.
- Familiar counting sequences can be extended up to 1000.
- Investigating and understanding right angles
Theme
This term our Geography topic focuses on Cities. We will be exploring the difference between villages, towns, and cities. Finding out where the major cities in the UK are located and investigating the human features of a city. We will be looking closely at the cities of Manchester and Liverpool as they are the closest cities to our location. We are also very excited to be taking the children on a trip to The Manchester Museum on Friday 2nd February. More details about this exciting trip will be released within the next few weeks once all of the arrangements have been finalised.
Autumn Term 2024
English
Our key text will be ‘Red and the City’ by Marie Voigt. We will focus on expanded noun phrases, coordinating conjunctions and using inverted commas to punctuate speech. The children will write their own version of the story over the half term. We will also look at non-chronological reports towards the end of the half term. Reading Children will be read with in school on a regular basis. We really encourage reading at home at least three times a week if possible. If you could update reading records when you read with them at home, that would be great!
Maths
In maths, we will be exploring adding three numbers together and understanding that addition can be done in any order. We will also be adding and subtracting across 10. Later on in the half term, we will be looking at numbers to 1,000. Times tables will be a big focus for us this year and we will focus in particular on our 2s, 4s and 8s.
Theme
We will begin our theme lessons with PSHE and we will be thinking about our aspirations for both this year and the future. Our geography theme this half term is focused on counties in the North West of England. Within this theme we will conduct some map work exploring where the counties are. We will also learn some of the key physical and human features of the different counties. Fieldwork will be a part of this topic and we will visit Godley Reservoir during the half term to enrich our geographical enquiry skills.
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