Mr Avis assisted by
Erica & Rosemary
CURRICULUM
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.
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 written work.
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 Friday 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
This term, we’ll be having our first look at poetry, taking a closer look at some of Carol Ann Duffy’s poems, identifying poetic devices and the impacts they might have on the reader.
BOOK LIST
Click here for Year 3 book list
Albert Einstein on perseverance:
‘It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.’
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
THEME
In Theme, we’ll be learning all about Rivers, including about the Thames and its docklands. Our artwork focus will move onto the work of Claude Monet – particularly his paintings of rivers.
RE
The question we’ll be answering this term will be: What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today? To answer this we’ll consider how Hindus understand God, how they might show their faith, and consider festivals and rituals they partake in.
FRENCH
This term, we’ll be learning to talk about animals and whether or not we like them. We’ll also look at French carnivals and using numbers in different contexts.
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 think about their aspirations, how to achieve goals and develop their understanding of the emotions that go with this.
SCIENCE
We’ll start our topic of Animals including Humans and then move onto Plants.
MATHS
During this half-term, we’ll be looking at long multiplication and long division, then moving onto length, mass and volume. If your child doesn’t already know 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.
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Click here for Maths Methods Handbook
