Scotts Primary School

Class 3M

Teacher - Miss May

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Kavanagh

Learning Support Assistant - Mrs Flatman

Class 3H

Teacher - Miss Harrington

Teaching Assistant - Miss Green

Termly curriculum overview

Parent information slides

(From September 2022, See above for updated information)

Our reading and writing this term will be linked to:

Planet Omar - Accidental Trouble Magnet

Working towards year 3 writing mat.

Please see below...

Inside the classroom...

Earlier this year, Year 3 had some exciting visitors! See pictures below...

Year 3 creative competition!

Well done to everyone who participated.

Reading

We recommend your child reads 5 times a week with an adult. This should be recorded in your reading record. 

Please send your child into school with their reading record, individual reading book and library book every day!

See below for some ideas on how to engage your child in reading and support their reading comprehension...

We use reading Vipers to develop the children's comprehension skills. See document below...

Spelling

Useful English websites:

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
• http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy/
• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
• https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/
• https://spellingframe.co.uk/ 

RE

We have been learning about how different religions express their faith through the arts. 

Here is an example of our stain glass window we made in December...

PSHE

In PSHE, we have been learning about the importance of kindness. See our kindness tree below...

Year 3 in pictures

See above some of the exciting opportunities we have had so far in year 3!

• Learning to play cards with a multiplication twist!
• DT - making desk tidies
• Prehistoric day!
• Geography workshop about continents
• Prehistoric artefact hunt and presentations
• Making fossils 
• Reindeer run
• Using concrete resources in maths
• Silent disco for an end of term treat! (3M)

This half term, children will continue to develop their multiplication and division skills and strategies. We will be multiplying and dividing 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. 

We will also be learning about money and how to add and subtract using pounds and pence. 

Finally, we will be learning about statistics. Here, children will develop their understanding of bar graphs, pictograms and tables. They will collect their own information, present it in a graph and interpret their own data. 

Please see below for more information…

This years maths long term plan:

Keep practising those times tables!

So far we have been learning x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x8, x10.

Knowledge organisers for this term:

Please read and use at home to support your child's understanding.

Useful maths websites:

• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39
• https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular
• https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/maths/
• https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-maths-age-7-8-year-3/
• https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/home-learning-centre/ 

This term, our topic is...

Animals including humans 

Geography

This term, our topic is...

Land use

Art

Cave painting on Prehistoric Britain day with fresh berries.

Examples of our Stonehenge silhouette project...

DT

Last term, we made desk tidies!

We learnt all about shell structures and how to strengthen and reinforce our own structures.

Here are some photos of us enjoying the making and evaluating process of our project...

Computing

We are bug fixers

This half term, we will be learning to fix errors in algorithms on Scratch and Irobot.

PE

This half term, we are excited to be doing yoga and netball.

French

This half term, our topic is family!

Music