Miss Ratsch
assisted by Hazel & Beverly
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 3 overview
HOMEWORK
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Reading record entries
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Numbots/TTRS
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SPaG
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Spellings
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Handwriting
Reading record entries
The most important thing every Year 3 must make sure they do is read to an adult every day for 15 minutes. You need to be able to read well in order to succeed in all subjects at school. Discuss your reading book using the comprehension skills questions in your reading record. Reading records should be brought to school every day. Written entries should be made at least three times a week.
SPaG
Your child will complete pages in their own SPaG CGP book each week.
Spellings
Homework is set on Google Classroom on Wednesdays and should be completed in your homework book, which stays at home. A photo of the spelling tasks must be uploaded by the following Wednesday morning. The spelling words must be learnt for the tests that take place each Wednesday. This also includes the handwriting activity.
Numbots / TTRS
Every child should commit at least 25 minutes a week to Numbots or TTRS (if they’ve completed Numbots with 3 stars on each level). Children will learn faster if they do 5 minutes a day – rather than 25 minutes once a week.
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 Being Me in My World. Children learn about their rights and responsibilities, how to work cooperatively, and how their choices and behaviour affect themselves and others in their class and wider community.
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. Swimming lessons are also on Monday.
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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 develop 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 begin the year with The Twits by Roald Dahl. Through this humorous and mischievous story, children will develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills while exploring the characters and events within the text. They will sequence events, explore features of the text, make predictions and develop their inference skills through discussion and a range of follow-up activities.
RECOMMENDED READS
Please click here to see our Recommended Reads for Year 3. All of these books are available to borrow from our school library.
HUMANITIES
This term we will be starting with our Geography topic, looking at the question: Why do people live near volcanoes? Children will learn how the Earth is constructed, where mountains are found, why and where we get volcanoes, the effects of volcanic eruptions and where the rocks around school come from.
ENGLISH
We will begin the year with the book Escape From Pompeii written by Christina Balit. The class will explore the main characters, including how their feelings change through the story, and will write letters of advice to help save them from the eruption. Through collecting banks of powerful vocabulary, children will write a vivid description of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In the final part of the learning sequence, children will become journalists and write a newspaper article to report on the eruption, including quotes from survivors in the town.
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 autumn term, we will be working through the ‘personal’ and ‘social’ cogs in our weekly PE lessons.
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
We will also be running the Boutcher Mile on Monday afternoons.
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.
SCIENCE
Our first topic will involve learning about rocks. We’ll be comparing and grouping together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties. We’ll be describing in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock. Also, we’ll learn that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
RE
The question we’ll be answering this term will be: What is the Story? The class will delve deeper into why the Bible is so special for Christians and what the Bible teaches about faith.
USEFUL WEBSITES
MATHS
During this half-term, we’ll be focusing on number and place value before moving on to calculations involving addition and subtraction. We will also be revisiting the 2, 5 and 10 times tables to help children build fluency and confidence with their multiplication and division facts. Regular practice at home will be helpful in supporting your child’s progress.
If your child doesn’t already know how to tell the time using an analogue clock, please continue to practise this with them, as children are expected to be able to tell the time by the end of Year 2.
Click here for Maths Methods Handbook