This term Year 3 will have a big science and geography focus when looking at the big question ‘Do landscapes change?’ In geography, we will be looking at rivers where we will be studying water cycles, how rivers are used and looking at our local rivers. 

ENGLISH

In English, we will start the term by writing a holiday brochure about Greece. We will look at brochures and their features and then collect sentences and vocabulary in our sentence stacking lessons. This will help the children to write their own brochure independently. 

Later in the term we will be writing a narrative based on 'The Incredible Book-Eating Boy' A fun story about a boy who begins to gather knowledge by eating as many books as he can. Later realising that this may not be the best way. We will continue to teach spelling rules for Year 3, run phonics interventions where needed and teach from the statutory spelling list. Spellings will be sent home weekly and tested each Friday to support children in learning these – we really appreciate all your hard work practising with them!

MATHS

In Maths, we will begin by working on mass and capacity. We will then be learning about money. This will involve learning the coins, pounds and pence, adding money and finding change.

After that we will move on to time. This will include learning about am, pm, days, weeks, months and years. We will be using digital and analogue clocks. In Year 3, children are expected to tell the time to the nearest minute.

We will then move onto shape where we will be learning about angles, different types of lines and looking at 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. Finally, in Maths, we will move onto to statistics, where we will be interpreting data through the use of pictograms and bar charts.

SCIENCE

In science, we are looking at animals, including humans. In this topic, we will be studying the human body, skeletons and diet.