Miss Cochrane
assisted by Sophie & Serena
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 3 overview
HOMEWORK
EXPECTAIONS
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Weekly homework is set. Please see the expectation for Year 3 on the Home Learning Overview for more information.
PSHE
At Boutcher School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and relationships as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity. We use the Jigsaw Programme which offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area. This term the topic being covered across the school is Dreams and Goals. In this unit, children will discuss facing difficulties and challenges, identify dreams and ambitions that are important to them and think about ways to persevere and achieve their goals.
USEFUL NOTICES
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Reading records must be in school every day.
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Bring a water bottle to school each day
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PE will be on a Monday and you are to come to school wearing your kit.
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Our library session is on a Wednesday so please have your library book in school to renew or change.
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Homework is set on a Wednesday and must be uploaded on Google Classroom by the following Wednesday.
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Spelling tests will take place each Wednesday and results recorded in reading records.
READING
During Guided Reading lessons, children will continue to build on the eight reading comprehension skills (a copy of which can be found in your child’s reading record) through discussion, key questioning and follow-up tasks. We will be using the text I am The Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Fiona Waters and Frann Preston-Gannon.
RECOMMENDED READS
Click here for Year 3 book list
FRENCH
At Boutcher we will now be teaching French in our Modern Foreign Language lessons. French will be taught by Miss Simmons once a week and children will practise French throughout the week with their class teacher through daily greetings and classroom instructions.
HUMANITIES
In Geography we will be studying: Who lives in Antarctica? Children will learn about the location and climate, including lines of latitude. They will explore the physical and human features of Antarctica. They will learn about Shackleton’s journey and develop map skills by using compass points.
ENGLISH
Michael Morpurgo’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin will be the inspiration for our writing. Through this text, we'll learn a range of spelling, grammar and punctuation skills that will be applied to a range of written work.
SCIENCE
Our topic this half term is Animals including humans. We’ll be identifying that animals, including humans, need the right type of nutrition and where this nutrition comes from. We will identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.
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MATHS
During this half-term, we will continue looking at multiplication and division, and then we will move onto measurement (length, mass, volume).
If your child doesn’t already know how to tell the time with an analogue clock, please keep practising with them. All children are expected to be able to tell the time by the end of Year 2. This is a key skill and requires regular practise at home.
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Click here for Maths Methods Handbook
PE
At Boutcher, we follow the ‘Real PE’ approach. Real PE is a unique, child-centred approach that engages and challenges children in their PE lessons. It focuses on the development of agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning. Real PE focuses on six key cogs, these are: Creative, Cognitive, Health and Fitness, Personal, Physical and Social.
In the spring term, we will be working through the ‘cognitive’ cog in our weekly PE lessons, looking at dynamic balance and ball skills.
Our PE day is: Monday
PE kit is as follows:
- plain white t-shirt or polo top
- navy blue jogging bottoms, leggings or shorts (no logos)
- school navy blue jumper or cardigan
- suitable trainers for PE
RE
The first RE topic for this term answers the question ‘What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today?’
