Welcome to Year 3!​

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3 Chad & 3 Vale​​​

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Autumn Term

 

English

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The children will use ‘The Write Stuff’ in order to study new texts. The texts will cover a range of genres and types such as information, persuasion and a variety of stories. Each unit will span across approximately 3 weeks and children will produce a piece of independent work once they have learned about features and grammar structures. The first piece will centre around the book, Little Red ‘Reading’ Hood written by Lucy Rowland. After half term, we will write a set of instructions.

 

​Reading

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Phonic skills are not taught in key stage two, and children will take part in whole class reading lessons. A range of rich texts will be used across the term including stories, non- fiction and poetry. Children will cover all of the necessary skills for reading including predicting, summarising, inferring, making links and retrieving information. A strong focus will be placed on inference skills during these lessons and this can be aided with reading at home. In addition to this, children will listen to books being read to them by an adult for approximately 15 minutes per day.

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Maths

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In Year 3, we continue to build upon the skills taught in Year 2 using the Maths No Problem scheme. In autumn, we focus mainly on number, place value addition and subtraction. The rest of the year will be built upon these building blocks. Other areas of maths will be planned and delivered after Christmas. In year 3, children need to know: 2x, 10x, 5x, 3x, 4x, 8x and 6x tables. We strongly recommend daily practise of these, as they will need to know all times tables by the end of Y4!

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Science

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In the unit ‘Forces and magnets’, children learn how to: compare how things move on different surfaces; notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance; and observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others. The unit on 'Rocks', children learn how to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties. They learn how to describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock and finally they learn how to recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

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History

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The children learn about the Stone, Bronze and Irone Ages during the autumn term. They will study the chronology of these periods, key facts and learn how to ‘think like a historian’ through investigation of historical sources.

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Computing

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Topics to be covered in autumn will include: e.safety, methods of communication, programming. Various programmes will be used to help deliver this and children will learn how to add detail and attachments to emails this year!

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Art

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Art in the autumn term links to our history topic and children learn about cave paintings! They will study the techniques used by stone age people and recreate them in school.

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Design Technology

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In DT lessons, the children will undertake a number of exciting projects. To link with our science learning, children learn all about nutrition and healthy eating. The class will design and make a healthy soup. 

 

Music

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The children learn to sing a number of different styles of music including rock, R and B and songs to celebrate traditional festivals. Children will also have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of instruments.

 

Geography

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Children will learn about different types of settlements and how they change over time. They will also learn how geographers use grid references identifying common map symbols and applying knowledge of symbols and grid references to navigate a map.

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Spanish

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In Year 3, the children begin by amassing a vocabulary of nouns and basic greetings. They learn about what the language sounds like, what it looks like and about Spanish culture. There is a key focus on speaking and listening, which develops a confidence in the subject, before the children move on to more advanced learning in Year 4.  ​

 

PE

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PE for both classes will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On these days, the children should come to school wearing their PE kits. The children will learn a variety of skills under the topics of gymnastics, games, dance and athletics. ​

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Year 3 Vale Teacher
l.woods@chadvale.bham.sch.uk

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Year 3 Chad Teacher
j.pollak@chadvale.bham.sch.uk

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