Miss Ratsch
assisted by Serena, Sophie & Mohammed
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 3 overview
HOMEWORK
EXPECTAIONS
Reading record entries
The most important thing every Year 3 must make sure they do is read to an adult every night. You need to be able to read well in order to succeed in all subjects we study at school - there's even a lot of reading in maths. 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.
Spellings
Homework is set on Google Classroom on Wednesdays and should be completed in your homework book, which stays at home. A photo of it must be uploaded by the following Wednesday morning. Each week the written task will involve writing sentences containing each of the spelling words. Each sentence will practise a taught grammar skill. The spellings word must be learnt for the tests that take place each Wednesday.
Numbots / TTRS
Every child should commit at least 25 minutes a week to Numbots. Children will learn faster if they do 5 minutes a day – rather than 25 minutes once a week. Well done to those children who have completed Numbots and moved onto Times Tables Rock Stars.
Please see the expectation for Year 3 on the Home Learning Overview for more information.
USEFUL NOTICES
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Book bags with reading records and reading books must be in school each day. Reading records should have at least three entries a week.
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Water bottles must be in school each day.
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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.
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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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PE is on Monday and children should attend school in their PE kit.
READING
This term, we’ll be taking a closer look at Africa, Amazing Africa!
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 ‘Relationships’ before moving onto ‘Changing me’.
RECOMMENDED READS
Click here for Year 3 book list
HUMANITIES
The question we’ll be answering this term will be: Are all settlements the same? We will learn what settlements are, how land is used in our local and how it has changed, before comparing it with land usage in New Delhi.
The question we’ll be answering this term will be: What was important to ancient Egyptians? We will discover where and when the first civilisations appeared, why the River Nile was so important and we will use sources of evidence to further understand the importance of gods and goddesses and the afterlife.
ENGLISH
Cinderella of the Nile by Beverley Naidoo 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.
SCIENCE
We’ll start our topic of Forces and then move onto Scientists and Inventors. We will investigate how things move on different surfaces, observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others as well as learning and describing the two poles.
MATHS
During this half-term we will be looking at money, time and fractions.
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.
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.
Throughout the summer term, we will be working through the ‘physical’ cog in our weekly PE lessons before moving onto ‘Health and Fitness’.
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
- suitable trainers for PE
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The question we’ll be answering this term will be: Why should Hindus live a good life?
