Welcome back to Year 3.

The year 3 team will be changing because Mrs Wood is leaving to have her baby.  We will miss her.  However, Mrs Heeley will now be teaching on Monday and Tuesday and Mrs Henderson on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Our teaching assistants will be Mrs McKerchar every morning and Mrs Barwick in the afternoons, Tuesday - Friday.

Our SummerTerm topic

is

Brockholes Now and Then.

This is a geographical topic with an historical element. We will look at the changes in the settlement of Brockholes over time.

We will be finding out about maps of different scales.  We will explore different types of map and how they show changes in the area over time.

In Literacy lessons, we will be looking at narrative texts, poetry and plays.   Mostly we will concentrate on improving our narrative writing, by revising and editing our own work and helping others to do so.  We will be reading, writing, and performing, stories as plays. Our poetry reading and writing, will have an environmental focus.  Throughout these lessons, we will be including work on grammar, punctuation, handwriting and spelling. 

We are continuing to count in fours, sixes and eights in maths. We will be doing more practise using the Times Table Rock Stars site.  We are continuing with fractions, adding and taking way.  We will tell the time to the nearest five minutes.  We will explore duration and work out lengths of time.

Science lessons will involve investigating light and shadow.  We will find out about our skeletons and those of other creatures.  In DT we will be building structures during Green Week.  We will be finding out about alternative energy.

                     Our Art lessons will explore the work of Andy Goldsworthy and L.S. Lowry.    

We will be learning specific vocabulary for a new unit on pets in French. We will complete speaking and listening activities linked to the animals taught.   

In RE we will be considering aspects of spirituality and, in particular, how creation stories help people understand the world.   

In PSHE, we consider how to care for our environment both in Brockholes and beyond, plus how to be healthy.

P.E kit is to be worn all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. No changing of kit will happen at school. Please ensure your child has appropriate footwear and a warm jumper as we will be outside for some sessions.  There will be some dance sessions indoors.  We are re-enacting roman life through dance.   Outdoor learning will take place every fortnight on a Tuesday morning. Please ensure your child is dressed in appropriate clothing with a raincoat and bring a pair of wellies.