Bears (Y3)
Welcome to the Bear Class
Brave 
Enthusiastic
Ambitious
Resilient
Everyone has settled into Year 3 extremely well and both Mrs Lilly and Mrs Westwood 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 tables 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
Our topic for Summer 1 is Ancient Egyptians. We will be travelling back in time over 5,000 years to discover what life was like as an ancient Egyptian. We will delve into artefacts and books, take part in a ‘real’ life mummification, crack hieroglyphic codes and understand the roles that Egyptians played in their social society. We will be continuing this topic into Summer 2.
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Key Vocabulary civilisation pharaoh irrigation tomb sarcophagus mummification embalming hieroglyphics empire Learning what these words mean will help you during our first topic.
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In English, we will be looking at adventure stories and a newspaper linked to the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. In our adventure story we will be focusing on creating surprise. We will be learning how to include the following features in our writing: similes, alliteration, onomatopoeia and direct speech. Our newspaper article will show the children how to include the 5 Ws in their writing – who, what, when, where and why. We will also be recapping time connectives.
In Maths, we will be finishing our unit on mass and capacity before going back to fractions. After this, we will be looking at money.
In science, our focus is plants. We will be looking at the parts of flowers and their functions and what plants need to survive. We will be conducting lots of investigations to explore what happens to plants when their needs are taken away.
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Key Vocabulary Leaves, stem, trunk, flowers, roots, anchor, reproduce, nutrients, soil, pollination, nectar, seed, dispersal Learning what these words mean will help you during this topic.
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Please click here to download the Medium Term Planning
Our topic for Summer 2 is ‘Funny Bones’. We will be learning all about how energy is needed to fuel both plants and animals, discovering which types of food provide the longest lasting energy. We will learn all about how our bodies are able to move thanks to our incredible skeletons and muscles. We will compare skeletons of different animals and consider how diets can impact upon the body.
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Key Vocabulary energy protein calcium invertebrate endoskeleton exoskeleton herbivore omnivore carnivore Learning what these words mean will help you during this topic.
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In English we will be writing a persuasive argument to select our class pharaoh. The children will be using emotive language, rhetorical questions and cause and effect connectives to get their peers to vote for them. We will also be writing about the mummification process – children will be encouraged to present this in a humorous way. Our final piece of writing will be a play script. This will be based around the book ‘Funny Bones’. We will look at how to include stage directions in our writing.
In Maths we will be looking at time, shape and statistics. In time, the children will be taught how to tell the time in intervals of five minutes, am and pm and we will also look at digital clocks. In shape, we will be looking at angles as well as how to recognise and describe 2D and 3D shapes. Statistics will see us looking at different ways of representing data.
In Design Technology we will be looking at healthy food and designing a product, inspired by either the Stone Age or Ancient Egypt, to bring home. This will also include the children designing their own packaging using shell structures.
Medium Term Planning to be added soon
Important Information
Our P.E days are Monday and Wednesday.
Our weekly Spanish lesson will be on a Wednesday.
Our weekly spelling test will be on a Friday.
We will complete book swaps on a Monday.
Weekly times tables test on a Monday.
Dates for your diary
29th January - 7th March – Reading Challenge
W/C 22nd January – Careers Week
31st January – International Zebra Day
6th February (9am) – Parent workshop - supporting reading comprehension
27th February – International Polar Bear Day
6th March – Creative Afternoon
7th March – World Book Day
15th March – Magna school trip
15th March – Red Nose Day (we will celebrate on 14th March due to our school trip)
30th April - Sports Day
7th May - Creative Afternoon
14th May - School Library Service – Ancient Egyptian workshop
Home Learning
We ask for you to read 4 times weekly and sign your child's planner.
Play on TT Rockstars and Spelling Shed.
Each half-term we will also send out a home learning bingo grid with tasks for you to complete at home. Here are the Spring challenges for you to try (remember each challenge is worth 2 Dojos).
Summer 1 learning grid:
Summer2 learning grid:
Other home learning activities for the Summerterm are:
- Read to an adult at least 4 times a week.
- Revise your Spanish learning by teaching your adults.
- Practise your spellings.
- Practise the 2, 5, 10, 3, 4,6 and 8 times tables. What about in reverse?
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