Autumn Term 1

2024

 Year 3

Welcome back to Year 3!

Here you will find all of the key information about what the children are getting up to this term. The door for Year 3 will be opened at 8:45am and will close at 8.55am for registration. Please ensure children arrive on time to ensure that they can settle into the school day successfully.

Reading

 The novels we will be reading this term are  The Wild Way Home by Sophie Kirtley– a wild, big-hearted adventure as Charlie and a Stone Age boy set out together to find what they have lost – their courage, their hope, their family and their way home.  The second novel we will be reading is The Ledgend of Podkin One Ear by Kieran Larwood – Podkin must protect his family, uncover his destiny, and attempt to defeat the most horrifying enemy rabbitkind has ever known.

Reading continues to be an important part of the day. Please ensure that your child reads at home daily and that this is recorded in their reading record. Your child’s reading book and reading record need to be sent into school daily to enable us to read at school, change books and monitor your child’s reading progress. A mixture of reading to an adult as well as reading independently is encouraged in order for children to develop their fluency and comprehension. Our library day is Thursday.

Writing

As writers, we will be starting a Talk For Writing piece on warning tales.  We will first be looking at Little Red Riding Hood.  We will look at what warning stories include, changing a text and making our own warning story.  After that we will be doing book based writing on The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein where the children will be looking a cave paintings, using modal verbs and looking an inference to name only a few.  

Maths

In Maths, we will be starting the term with place value and then moving onto addition and subtraction  and then ending the term with multiplication and division.  We will be continuing to practise and consolidate the children’s methods of calculation for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  The children will be coming home with their TTRS login at the back of their reading record and so can practise their times tables at home.  The children can achieve certificates and badges if they can reach Rockstar, Rock Legend and Rock Hero status!

Broader Curriculum

We will be starting this first half of the term with our new Science unit, Animals including humans  where we will be learning about how the body works in order to keep a human healthy.  We will also be starting a History unit Stone age to Iron age where we look at how daily life in Britain has changed from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.  

Physical Education

Our focus in PE this term is The Fundamentals.  In this unit pupils will develop the fundamental skills of balancing, running, jumping, hopping and skipping. Pupils will develop their ability to change direction with balance and control. They will be given the opportunity to explore how the body moves at different speeds as well as how to speed up and slow down.  Please ensure your child comes to school dressed in their PE kit every Thursday.

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to email me at:

a.warner-lee@southill.dorset.sch.uk

Thank you for your continued support,

Andrea 🙂