ST THOMAS
CE PRIMARY SCHOOL
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YEAr 3
Welcome to Year 3's Learning Page.
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MEET THE TEAM
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Our Topic this term is:
History Topic - Through The Ages
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This project teaches children about British prehistory from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, including changes to people and lifestyle caused by ingenuity, invention and technological advancement.
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Project Ideas
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Here are some project ideas for you to carry out at home:
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Use chalk, charcoal, or crayons on brown paper or the back of a cereal box to recreate cave art (animals, handprints, hunting scenes).
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Make models of tools using salt dough or cardboard (e.g. spears, hand axes).
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Write a day-in-the-life diary as a Stone Age child. Include hunting, cooking, and sleeping in a cave.
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Use cardboard, straws, grass/twigs for the roof, and mud/clay to model a Bronze Age roundhouse.
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Make ‘bronze’ jewellery using tin foil, pasta, string or clay, inspired by Bronze Age torcs and bangles.
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Design or build an Iron Age hillfort using LEGO, cardboard, or on paper. Include ditches, fences, and huts.
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Design a Celtic warrior mask or shield with bold patterns and colours. Use card and string.
Your home learning projects would look great on display, in the classrooms!​
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​​​​​​​​ Upload your work and share it on SEESAW. Click on link
Maths
In Maths we are starting the year with Place Value before moving on to Addition and subtraction. The overview diagram of the Maths being taught is shown here.
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It is vital that children continue to practice their fluency in times tables and can confidently and quickly answer recall questions on their times tables.
The children can practice their times tables on TTRockstars to help them become more secure.
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The overviews and lessons follow the White Rose Maths plans closely.
The link to their site with home learning and advice on can be found here:
Writing
In English, we will be starting with the book ‘A Bus Called Heaven’ by Bob Graham. This is a wonderful book full of lovely pictures which helps us to consider belonging to a community - perfect for the start of a new year. We will be creating our own version of the story before completing some descriptive writing. We will complete our work, thinking of the meaning of a community.
Reading - For our Reading, our first class-reading book will be ‘The Stolen Spear’ by Saviour Pirotta. Children will explore word meanings and vocabulary as well as developing their reading fluency.
Reading books should be in school every day
but will be changed (usually) on a Friday.
Science
In science, we will learn all about Animal Nutrition and the Skeletal System
This project teaches children about the importance of nutrition for humans
and other animals. They learn about the role of a skeleton and muscles and identify animals with different types of skeleton.
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Art & DT
We will be learning about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of tertiary colours, warm and cool colours, complementary colours, analogous colours and how artists use colour in their artwork.
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PSHE
We will be considering what makes a good friend. We will also think about how we can cope with fallouts.
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P.E. will be on a Monday and Wednesday. This term's themes are:
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Look run avoid - this unit has an important focus upon pupil’s fundamental movement skills. Pupils consider how they can find space and evade defenders.
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Agility, balance, coordination - this provides children with the opportunity to develop key fundamental movement skills.
Home / School reading book - We change every Friday and return them Every Thursday
PE - Our PE days are on Mondays and Wednesdays. Come to school dressed in your correct PE Kit (School house T-shirt, school cardigan / jumper, plain black or navy shorts, leggings or joggers, black / dark coloured trainers / pumps)
Library Books - Our Library day is Tuesday. Return and change books when you have finished reading them
Here is your Year 3 Class Charter challenge sheet. You can also download a copy by clicking on the image.
Click the link for our parents letter
Don't forget that we are always at the end of an email (year3@stthomas.org.uk) and most afternoons in the playground - at the end of the day when the children leave.