Welcome to Class 3

This page has useful information about the day to day running of Class 3 and about what we get up to in our busy, exciting classroom. 

Mrs Lock will teach Y3 every day except Monday. On Mondays the class will be taught by Miss Robinson. Mrs Willis will work alongside Y3 during some of our lessons.

Spring Term:

Writing: Our second half of the Spring Term will focus on poetry. We will learn about alliteration and collective nouns, before creating an alliteration poem. We will move on to the beautiful book, 'The Lost Words', using this as our inspiration to create poems about living things. We will learn the effective use of similes and metaphors as well as expanding our vocabulary. We will, during our unit on poetry, also enjoy our 'Off by Heart' poetry, listening to each other during the heats, leading up to our annual highlight: the finals! Then Y3 will move on to a book that is quite different!We will end the term with a study of 'The Boy who Biked the World', during which, we will learn to write persuasively, in readiness for creating a travel leaflet, combining or learning in Geography as well as English.

Maths: This term the children will continue their focus on multiplication and division followed by units aimed at teaching Y3 objectives on length and perimeter, fractions and mass and capacity.

Science:  

Half Term 2 Light and shadow: 

Y3 will learn about light and shadow and discover the difference between reflection and light sources. We will revisit prior learning about properties of materials, exploring transparent, translucent and opaque materials and looking at the shadows these cast. We will also explore shadows in relation to the sun as well as exploring shadow shapes as we create our own puppet shows.

Children will learn to:

• recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the

       absence of light

• notice that light is reflected from surfaces
• recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes
• recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is

blocked by an opaque object

• find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change

Geography: 

For the second half of the Spring term, children will focus on Geography. Our area of study will be 'Who lives in Antarctica?'. During the unit the children will learn:

To understand the position and significance of lines of latitude.

To describe the location and physical features of Antarctica.

To describe the human features of Antarctica.

To use four-figure grid references to plot Shackleton’s route to Antarctica.

To plan a simple route on a map using compass points.

To follow instructions involving compass points and map a simple route.

Art:

We move on to Art this term and we will explore the work of Van Gogh to begin to understand the processes involved in producing a piece of artwork. Y3 will learn how to use initial sketches in preparation for sketching and how to mix tertiary colours. We will evaluate and explore different brush strokes for effect and use our skills to recreate Van Gogh’s ‘Wheatfield with Cypresses’.

Music: Across the term as a whole the children will cover the following areas of learning:

• STEP 1: Identifying the inter-related dimensions of music
• STEP 2: Accompanying songs with suitable timbre and expression
• STEP 3: Creating sounds in response to a stimulus
• STEP 4: To compose music to communicate stories and settings
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Computing: Infographics, Branching Database, Comic Creation, Music Creation and Esafety

MFL: In French lessons, Y3 will learn to name classroom objects as well as learning to answer questions about what we have or do not have. We will use our new vocabulary to understand, read and write simple texts in French.

Please follow us on Instagram or 'X', formerly Twitter, @AslocktonSchool to see us in action on our incredible learning journey in Class 3.

Spring term events:

March 10th- Science Week

'Off by Heart' poetry competition.

Useful information:

PE: Our PE lessons are on Wednesday  afternoons.  Children may come to school in P.E kit which should include appropriate clothing and footwear for both indoor and outdoor activities and the weather that day as most P.E lessons will take place whatever the weather.   Please make sure that all items of clothing are named.
 

Outdoor Learning: Where possible we will spend time learning outdoors and will enjoy using the outdoor learning area and the large grounds we are fortunate to have as a school. Therefore please can you ensure that your child has a suitable waterproof coat every day in school. If you wish, you can provide your child with a named pair of wellington boots which they can leave in the outdoor shoe box. This will enable us to provide more opportunities to take their learning outside. 

Homework: 

Reading and spellings  form part of weekly homework and any additional homework will be sent home, with an accompanying explanation letter.

Spellings: Children will be given weekly spellings and should know how to spell the words and be able to use them in a sentence. This is very important and will also be tested. Spelling Frame will be used as a way to practise their weekly spelling rules at home. Codes will be sent home to enable children to practice.

Times tables will be practised on a Friday and any children needing extra support will have access to an intervention. Children can use https://www.timestables.co.uk to practise their speed of recall of times tables facts up to 12x12. This will support their learning in preparation for the National Multiplication Tables Check in Year 4. Children have been given personal log in details to timestables.co.uk to practise at home.

The Year 3 Reading Challenge - we would like the children to read at least three times a week and to see the planner signed at least three times a week by an adult please. The reading section of the diary will be looked at every Friday and rewards for reading will be awarded on a weekly basis. However, children who read 3 times a week, every week in a half term will also be invited to participate in a reward activity.  

Creative Homework may be assigned and will always be themed around our current learning topic. Creative homework will be optional but provides a wonderful opportunity for you to share your child's learning at home.