Miss Cochrane
assisted by Erica
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 Being Me in my World. In this unit, children will identify their achievements, how to face new challenges positively, understand the impact of their actions and their responsibilities.
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 begin the year with The Twits by Roald Dahl.
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: Why do people live near volcanoes? Children will learn that the earth is constructed in layers, and the crust is divided into tectonic plates. They will study the formation and distribution of mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes and use Mount Etna to identify how human interaction shapes a volcanic landscape.
ENGLISH
We will begin the year with the book Escape from Pompeii written by Christina Balit. They will write in role of characters, write letters and diary entries; they will have opportunities to write stories, newspaper articles and non-chronological reports. In all lessons children will be learning or consolidating skills in phonics, grammar, punctuation, reading and handwriting
SCIENCE
Our topic this half term is 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.
MATHS
During this half-term, we’ll be looking at number and place value then moving onto addition and subtraction. 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.
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 is the Story?’
