Welcome to Year Three 

In year 3, children are taught by Ms Begum and Miss Hussain. Teaching and learning is supported by Miss Osborne and Miss Hall.

Dear parents and children

We hope that you have had a wonderful and peaceful Easter.

This half term, (first half of the Summer term), teaching and learning will focus on world history and the unit will involve looking at the Indus Valley. The enquiry question is: What were the achievements of the Indus Valley civilisation? Children will learn about significant events from the time and order these events chronologically on a timeline of early world history. They will also use their geographical skills to locate where in the world the Ancient Indus Valley civilisation existed and investigate the physical features of the landscape. In addition to this, they will examine archaeological evidence to find out how historians use a variety of evidence sources to draw conclusions about what life was like in the past. The children will have the opportunity to learn about different aspects of life of the Ancient Indus Valley civilisation, including what it was like to live in a city, and what clothes and jewellery the people wore.

For the latter three weeks of the Summer half-term, we will be looking at rainforests - what they are, where they are and what lives in the rainforest. We will also look at how we, as humans, influence the world in which we live and outline the pros and cons of deforestation.

During Mathematics, children will continue to focus on the four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as well as learning to tell the time. This will involve telling and writing the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks. Children will also estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight and know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year.

In statistics, children will to interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables. They will also solve one-step and two-step questions [for example ‘How many more?’ and ‘How many fewer?’] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables.

PE - Our PE day continues to be every Wednesday and children will be developing and improving their athletic skills. Please make sure that children are in P.E. kit every Wednesday. Please also make sure that all jewellery is removed, ear rings taken out and long hair tied back, in line with health and safety guidelines.

Homework - All children have been given passwords for Read theory accounts and Rockstar’s times-tables (for 30 minutes, each week) - please ensure that your child goes onto these and completes some of the activities. Please also continue to listen to your child read at least three times a week. Once you have heard them read, question them about what they have read. This is a good way of developing understanding of the text.

If there are any concerns, queries or questions, please continue to contact us via dojo.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

Year 3 staff.