Zebras (Y3)
Welcome to the Zebra Class
Zestful 
Enthusiastic
Brave
Resilient
Ambitious
Everyone has settled into year 3 extremely well and both Miss Martin and Miss Yates are so impressed with everyone, especially the resilience shown to overcome new challenges and settle into the expectations held within KS2.
Our focus this year, is to increase children’s confidence with their times table and encourage them to continue with their love of reading.
Please click here to download the Y3 Topic Long Term Plan
Please click here to download the Y3 Maths Long Term Plan
Please click here to download the Y3 Writing Standards
Summer Term
Summer 1
In English and Guided Reading this half term our focus text will be ‘The boy who grew dragons’ by Andy Shepherd. First we will be writing a persuasive argument based on if we think a dragon would make a good pet or not. We will be looking at using persuasive language and rhetorical questions to show our side of the argument. Then we will be writing a myth about how dragons came to be.
In maths we will be begin by learning about mass and capacity. This will include reading, scales, comparing and adding and subtracting. Then we will have another fractions unit to build on our learning in spring. We will be adding and subtracting fractions. We will then move on to learning about money where we will be adding, subtracting and learning about change.
In science our topic is plants. We will be working practically to look at what the different parts of the plant are for, what a plant needs to stay alive and the life cycle of a plant.
In history our topic is Ancient Egypt. We will be learning about the River Nile, Pharoah’s and Slaves, the pyramids and hyroglyphics.
In RE we are learning about what different people believe about God with a focus on Islam and Christianity.
In computing we will be learning about animation. This children will look at how pictures moving by looking at flip books. They will be animating some of their own stories and evaluating and improving their final pieces of work.
In art our focus will be on Van Gogh. The children will be learning about his life and artwork before creating their own portraits in the style of Van Gogh.
In music our topic is rhythm and layers. The children will be using musical instruments to create different textures and layers. They will also be composing a piece of music with different textures and improving a composition.
Summer 2
In English and Guided Reading this half term our focus text is ‘The Ancient Egypt Sleepover’ by Stephen Davies. First we will be writing a newspaper report based on heading and subheadings. Then we will be writing an explanation of the mummification process. Finally we will be writing a poem.
In maths we will be starting with a unit on time. We will be learning to tell the time to 1 minute, read time on a digital clock and solve problems involving time. Then we will be looking at shape where we will have a focus on angles, 2D and 3D shapes. We will finish the year by looking at statistics with a focus on bar graphs and pictograms.
Our science topic for this half term is nutrition, skeleton and muscles. During this unit we will study what we need to be healthy, how our skeleton works and what living things need.
In RE our topic question is ‘What can we learn from religions about deciding what is right and wrong?’.
In DT we will be looking at two units during this half term. Our first unit is about structures and the children will be designing, making and evaluating a shell structure. The second unit is about food where the children will be designing, making and evaluating their own food item.
Our computing unit this half term is desktop publishing. The children will be learning how font size and colour can improve documents and then they will be adding text and images to their own piece of work.
In art our focus will be on paint. The children will be learning about mixing tints, shades and tones as well as layering watercolours.
Important Information
Our P.E days will be Wednesday and Friday.
Our weekly Spanish lesson will be on Thursday.
Our weekly spelling test will be on a Friday and our multiplication test will be on a Wednesday.
We will complete book swaps on a Wednesday.
Dates for your diary
Creative Afternoon- Thursday 8th May 1.30
End of year showcase- Tuesday 15th July 2.20
Useful Websites
Times table rockstars – a useful webpage to practice times tables - https://ttrockstars.com/
Topmarks – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
Spelling shed – a useful way to practise new spelling rules that have been taught - https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/
BBC Bitesize – this is a useful webpage where you can access learning with your child at home for different areas across the curriculum - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn