Year 3
Welcome to Year 3
The warmest of welcomes to the Year 3 pages of our school website. Here you will find out about all of the exciting learning opportunities happening in both the Year 3 classes. In addition, we will also share key information including our routines and expectations so that you can help your child to be ready for all of the learning and opportunities in Year 3. We are very excited to get to know your child and to working in partnership with you.
Introducing the Year 3 Teaching Team
Our Year 3 class names have been carefully selected and named after trees that symbolise strength, wisdom and knowledge.
Juniper – Miss Knight (PPA provided by Dr Hardwidge on Thursdays)
Elm – Mrs McClive and Mrs Shattock (PPA provided by Mrs Partridge on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons)
Mrs Bradbury, Mrs Waldren and Miss Turner will be supporting in class as Learning Partners.
As a team, we are looking forward to working with your children and are excited to share their journey with you. If you have any questions or non-urgent messages, please make contact through the year group email. For urgent messages, please contact the school office.
Our Routines and Organisation
PE - Wednesdays (Indoor) and Fridays (Outdoor)
(Elm will have Forest School on Thursday afternoons from the middle of Term 1 and Juniper during Term 2. Forest School will replace Outdoor PE on a Friday on these weeks.)
Reading books and records returned - Monday
Class Poetry Journal given and returned - Monday
Year 3 Long Term Overview
The following link is to a plan that outlines the learning taking place across the whole of Year 3.
Year 3 Termly Overviews
The following link gives you a more detailed plan of the learning taking place each term.
Knowledge Organisers
For each new History and Geography unit, children will bring home their one-page ‘Knowledge Organiser’ which will contain some of the key knowledge and vocabulary that children will be learning as part of their work in class. The main idea is that they help children gain a strong knowledge and understanding of their topic in order to help them know and remember more and start to make links between subjects and topic areas. Please help your child to learn the information contained within the knowledge organiser through discussion, exploration and low-stakes quizzing for fun!
Science Glossaries
For each new Science topic, children will have a science glossary. This again helps them to make links with previous learning – reminding them of vocabulary and content already studied. It also introduces and explains the new vocabulary that will be key to their understanding of the concepts and processes under study.
Reading
Class teachers will allocate book bands and books to the children. It is not an ‘exact science’ and we hope the children enjoy the books that they are reading. We particularly hope that 95% or more of the words that they are reading in their books are readable. Do let us know in your child's reading record, how they are finding each of the texts, discussing questions with them in order to deepen their knowledge and understanding.
We encourage the children to read daily at home (ideally for ten minutes per day) and we hope that they really enjoy this.
If your child is reading orange, turquoise, purple or non-fiction gold books, please can they read the book 3 times. This is a new development in reading as research suggests that reading the same book three times (or more) before moving on to a new book really helps a child’s decoding, fluency and comprehension.
We suggest that the first time that they read their book, they use this opportunity to decode and discuss unfamiliar words. The focus for the second time the child reads is fluency and expression as they will (hopefully) be more familiar with the words. The third read can then be used to discuss the book and, if possible, ask your child some questions about the books and discuss it to help their comprehension. We hope this makes sense and helps.
If you have any questions, please let us know via the year group email or pop to see us after school.
Many thanks for your continued support.
Times Tables
We hope your children are enjoying learning their times tables. Our aim is that the children will know all of their times tables up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4 and earlier than that if possible. We aim to get them there with daily practice in school and as much practice outside of school as possible (four times per week). We aim to make it fun, enjoyable and engaging.
Our aim by the end of Year 3 is that children know their 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 11 times tables. To support this, children have access to a Times Tables Rock Stars account where the children have be set varying times table facts weekly. Here your child will be able to practise their times tables in a fun and engaging way.
Please let your child's class teacher know if there are any issues with logging onto this website.
Resources to support Times Tables:
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Times Table Rock Stars TTRS - a fabulous way to practise times tables and earn coins. Please pop in and see your teacher anytime if you have misplaced your login
When you are asked to type in the school postcode either type 'Whiteoak' or BS48 4YZ and The Whiteoak Academies will be there to select in a drop down menu.
