Welcome to our Year 3 Classes

Opal Class

Class Teacher: Laura Vomero
Teaching Assistant: Rosemary Manu

Sapphire Class

Class Teachers: Rene Tucknott
Teaching Assistant: Anna Strappelli

Year 3 Curriculum Map for 2014-2015

Please read our termly curriculum letter for more information.

If you have any queries, please contact the Class Teacher or the Learning and Teaching Leader for this phase: Donna Rankine. 

Below is the homework set for Summer 2. Each child will be given a copy on Friday 5th June but we also have it here just in case!

Autumn Term

We kicked off the year with our exciting topic 'The Dinosaurs'. Year 3 were transported to the Jurassic period where dinosaurs took over both classes.  We used the internet to research interesting facts about a range of dinosaurs. We also used this information to create group presentations and write non chronological reports. The children really enjoyed showing another class their presentation! The classes wrote exciting adventure stories using Rex Stones 'Charge of the Three Horned Monster' as an exemplar text.

Our Science topic was 'Animal and Human Skeletons'. The children learnt the names of bones in the human body and about how muscles help our bones to move.

In Maths the children consolidated and extended their knowledge of place value, addition and subtraction. They have thoroughly enjoyed doing their 'Challenge Maths' on a Friday.

On Wednesday 8th October, we visited the Natural History Museum where we explored the dinosaur gallery and looked at fossils. The children had a thoroughly enjoyable learning experience.   

We also performed an outstanding Christmas Concert for parents/carers which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. The children rehearsed and performed a variety of songs which were practised during music lessons.There were also a range of stunning instrumental solos.  We would like to thank all the parents/carers for their support.

Spring Term

Our topic in the first half term was 'Magic and Mystery'. To kick start our topic, we read George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. In Literacy the children have been identifying features of instructional texts and have written their own instructions on how to trap a grandma!  We are also going to become authors by planning and composing our own mystery story using The Minpins by Roald Dahl as a stimulus. 

In Maths we have been focusing on measures; length, weight and capacity. We have learnt how to calculate perimeter of simple shapes and solve word problems. Of course we are always recapping our number facts and times tables! For the last 2 weeks we created and interpreted bar charts. 

Our Science topic for the first  half term was 'Forces and Motion'. We  linked some history here by learning about Isaac Newton. We  investigated forces and carried out an experiment to find out which magnet was the strongest. 

The second half of Spring term sees us travelling back to the Stone Age to discover how times have changed from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age and comparing this with modern day life.  We have a dress up day coming up where the children can come to school dressed as a Stone Age child-watch this space! In Art, the children will be creative cave paintings and making pottery as people did in the Stone Age. 

To tie in with RE week, children in year 3 have written a recount about their trip to the Sikh temple (Gurdwara) in Thornton Heath. We all learnt a lot about Sikhism and how Sikh people care for others.  

Also in Literacy this half term, year three will be looking at poetry during World Book Week. The outcome of this week long unit of work will be to create acrostic poems about light and shadows. We look forward to reading 'Stone Age Boy' by Satoshi Kitamura and doing work around that. 

Check out how hard we have been working on our Stone Age cave paintings!

We all had a wonderful day!

Here are some snaps from our Ancient Greek dress up day 2015!