Welcome to Year 3!

Teachers: Mr Parkin and Mrs Singh

Teaching Assistants: Mrs King and Mrs Simpson

Email: rspprospero@southbankprimary.co.uk

Contact number: 01642 453451

Please be aware that contact may be made outside of teaching hours.

We have an exciting year ahead of us with some great topics to catch the children's interest! Your child's love of learning is going to grow over the year and they will take part in a variety of exciting learning opportunities, including: educational visits, internal visitors and learning outdoors.

Autumn Term Learning

Spring learning

Spring learning

In English we will be looking at the place value of Punctuation and Grammar. In this unit we will be building on our knowledge from Year 2 and adding to it to create more complex sentences with added detail.  Following this, we will be looking at the features of a non-chronological report so that we can write our own all about prehistoric creatures.

In Maths, we will be looking at:

• Multiplication and division - mental methods, the three times tables, the four times tables, the eight times tables and written methods.
• Measurement - using centimetres and millimetres.

In Science, the children will be learning all about forces and magnets. We will be looking at push and pull forces, how different surfaces change how objects move, how magnets work, investigating which materials and magnetic and non-magnetic and how different magnets have different strengths.

In Music we will listen to and appraise a song called 'Three little birds'. We will learn to sing the song and play tuned percussion instruments along to the music. We will develop our understanding of pulse and pitch. We will also be continuing to learn how to play the recorder with Tees Valley Music Service.

In Geography we will be learning all about Key geographical features of the UK and our local area.

In Computing we will be learning all about spreadsheets.

In French we will be learning how to count to 20.

In RE we will be exploring what Hindus believe about God, how and why do Hindus worship at home and in the Mandir, and why Advent is important to Christians.

In PE we are going to be working with MFC to be developing our skills in dodgeball and progressing our skills in dance.

In our school we explore our rights across all areas of our school through our learning and social times. We make links in our lessons and explain why or how they relate to a certain right.

We also have a ‘Right of the Half Term’. This is where we dedicate time in our week to explore a specific right in detail.
This half term, our focus is Article 3 – The best interest of the child.

Important information and reminders:

Main class - PE is on Mondays and library day is on Thursdays.

Satellite class - PE is on Thursdays and library day is on Tuesdays.

• Reading books will be changed on a library day please ensure that your child has their book bag in school on this day. Your child will be given a ‘reading for pleasure’ book to take home and a phonics book suited to their level if they continue to access phonics. Also, please make sure to sign your child's reading record each time you read with them!
• On PE days, children will be getting changed into their school PE kit at school so should come to school in their normal school uniform. Also, please make sure they are wearing appropriate footwear.

Key dates for Autumn term

• 25^th October – last day of Autumn 1 half term.
• 4^th November – first day of Autumn 2 half term
• 15^th November – Children in Need
• 22^nd November – PD day
• 25^th November – PD day
• 4th December – KS2 Christmas lunch
• 11^th December – Y3/4 Christmas performance
• 18^th December – Christmas fair
• 20^th December – Last day of Autumn 2 half term