Welcome to Class 7!
Class teacher: Mrs Coates
Teaching Assistant: Miss Wade, Miss Robinson and Miss Van Niekerk
The children in Class 7 have settled into Year 3 brilliantly and have really impressed Mrs Coates, Miss Home, Miss Robinson and Miss Wade with their lovely manners and excellent attitudes to learning!
Our current topic is ‘The Rainforest’ which links in excellently with our courageous advocate: Greta Thunberg.
Year 3 Curriculum Autumn Term
English
Year 3 will begin the year with the ‘Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar’ scheme. This helps pupils to master the essential building blocks for their year group to enable them to become confident and independent writers and ensure they are ready for more advanced literacy teaching throughout the rest of the academic year.
In Year 3, the Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar focusses on:
- Common nouns
- Proper nouns
- Being verbs
- Regular action verbs
- Irregular action verbs
- Verb phrases
- Subjects
- Single-clause sentences
- Co-ordinating conjunctions
After we have finished our Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar block, we will move on to embedding our learning about the rainforest in a variety of cross-curricular contexts including:
- ‘Just So’ stories
- Diary entries from the perspective of rainforest animals
- Dilemma stories based on The Great Kapok Tree
- Interviews with rainforest creatures
As part of our reading curriculum, we are going to be developing our skimming and scanning and answering retrieval questions in a range of formats as well as working hard to improve our reading speed, fluency and expression.
Maths
This term in maths, we are going to deepen our understanding of place value as well as learning formal methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will be developing our knowledge of properties of 2D shapes and applying this in a variety of reasoning and problem-solving questions. As part of our learning on statistics, Year 3 will be working on interpreting and representing data using tally charts and tables.
Science
In Autumn 1, our science lessons will be all about plants. Children will plant and care for their own seeds as well as conducting lots of investigations on what plants need to survive. This will link perfectly with our STEM project for the autumn term which is making scarecrows.
During Autumn 2, we will focus our learning on movement and growth. We will be learning all about skeletons and how we can keep our bodies healthy.
History
Our key history question for this term is “How has my wider local area of Stockton and Teesside changes over the years?”. We will be researching the Stockton-Darlington railway and investigating the impact that Joseph Pease had on our local area.
Geography
Throughout the autumn term we will be learning all about different aspects of the rainforest including:
- Where rainforests are
- The human and physical features of a rainforest compared to Wynyard Forest
- What the Amazon River is used for and how this compares to the uses of the River Thames and the Volga River
- Amazon Rainforest tribes
- Extreme weather including flash floods and landslides
- Deforestation
DT
In DT, we will be applying our measuring skills as well as learning how to use a saw to make our own pan flutes inspired by instruments used by rainforest tribes.
We will also have the fantastic opportunity to use the 3D printer to design and make our own 3D printed Christmas ornaments!
Art
Our autumn term artist study will be on Henri Rousseau. We will look in depth at his famous ‘Surprised!’ artwork and develop our oil pastel skills to innovate our own version of this painting.
As well as this, Year 3 will have the chance to use natural resources in their artwork when designing their own mask inspired by those used by rainforest tribes.
Music
Mrs Bradley will continue to build on the ukulele knowledge and skills that the children developed in Year 2 in weekly sessions on a Thursday afternoon.
PE
PE lessons will be on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon this term.
On Monday afternoons, we will be focusing on communication and tactics with Luke, Olly and Megan. On Tuesday afternoons, we will begin with learning key skills for the Ninja Warrior Assault Course before moving on to dance and gymnastics with Miss Craggs.
Class 7 swimming lessons will begin after the February half term.
RE
Year 3’s weekly RE sessions will focus on The Creation Story and what it means to follow God. Children will also take part in daily worship sessions both as a whole school and during class-based activities.
French
In French lessons, will be looking at France and other French speaking countries as well as how to say our name, how we are feeling, colours, numbers and action verbs.
PSHE
During our PSHE lessons this term we will be exploring what it means to be a good friend. We will also be discussing ways that we can keep safe both at home and at school. As part of this, we will be talking about our bodies and how they belong to us. This can be a sensitive topic for some families. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the Year 3 PSHE curriculum, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Year 3 team.
Children have access to the following online resources and their logins are stuck in the front of their reading records:
Spelling Shed: Weekly spelling homework
My Maths: Weekly maths homework
TTRockstars: Times tables
Reading Plus: Reading comprehension
Bug Club: Reading comprehension
Purple Mash: A range of activities from across the curriculum
Year 3 Curriculum Overview
What’s been happening in Class 7?
We have made a fantastic start to our time in Year 3 and have really enjoyed taking part in our STEM project at the start of the year.
