Year 3
Welcome to Year 3
We are a lovely, hardworking and vibrant Year 3 class. We all have a love and curiosity for learning!
Our Teaching Team
Our class is taught by Mr. Dhiman and we are supported in our learning by Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Burnside.
A Typical Day in Year 3
Our school day starts at 8.50am
We follow a broad and balanced curriculum.
It is really important for your child to remember to bring in:
Their reading book and reading record everyday.
P.E. is taught on Wednesdays - pupils must have their P.E. Kit in school.
Their water bottle.
English
Our English work is taught using a key class text or novel. We enjoy reading our text or novel every day during our daily story time. Story time gives us the chance to simply enjoy listening to a story. Our comprehension and writing tasks link to our key texts and we complete a range of writing genres in our lessons. Our reading lessons also focus on developing our skills through the use of film clips, images and we use Reading VIPERS (Vocabulary, Inference,Prediction, Explanation, Retrieve, Summarise) to help us with this too.
This half term, Year 3 are reading Stig of the Dump by Clive King.
Barney is a bored young boy staying with his grandparents on the chalk downs of southern England. One day, he falls over the edge of an old chalk pit close to his grandparents’ house, tumbling through the roof of a den. While exploring the den, Barney encounters its owner, Stig, a caveman with shaggy, black hair and bright black eyes. The chalk pit is disused and full of people’s discarded rubbish .
Barney and Stig quickly become friends. They learn to communicate with each other without language, as Stig speaks no English and their adventures begin…
Maths
Our Maths focuses on the skills developed through White Rose Maths. We follow the block planning schedule and differentiate the lessons to meet the needs of the children. Children’s learning moves from using practical resources, then pictorial representations and finally to the abstract, which helps them to develop a secure and deeper understanding of concepts.
We use TT Rockstars on a daily basis to help to improve our rapid recall of multiplication facts.
To view our Autumn Medium Term Plan for Maths please click here.
Homework
For their homework, pupils are also expected to read their reading book for a duration of 10-15 minutes at home at least three times per week and practice their times tables using the TT Rockstars app.