Welcome to Year 3!

In Year 3, children enjoy a range of core and foundation subjects across the curriculum, alongside additional specialist teaching for Physical Education, music, Spanish, tennis, dance, drama and drumming. 

Weekly reminders: 

Homework is set on a Friday and due in the following  Wednesday. 

The homework set each week is spellings, SPAG, 2 x Maths (inc. times tables). 

At least 10 minutes of reading should take place at home each day and reading records are to be signed and returned daily.

P.E day: Tuesdays

 Children can arrive to school dressed for PE.

Maths

Here is the sequence of learning for maths in Year 3:

Writing

Below are the Year 3 writing expectations:

Children will be taught to develop their understanding by:

• extending the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including: when, if, because, although
• using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense
• choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition
• using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause
• using fronted adverbials

• indicate grammatical and other features by:
  • using commas after fronted adverbials
  • indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophe with plural nouns
  • using and punctuating direct speech

Reading- word reading

• apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) , both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet
• read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word

Reading - comprehension

• develop positive attitudes to reading, and an understanding of what they read, by:
  • listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
  • reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
  • using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read
  • increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally
  • identifying themes and conventions in a wide range of books
  • preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and to perform, showing understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action
  • discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination
  • recognising some different forms of poetry [for example, free verse, narrative poetry]
• understand what they read, in books they can read independently, by:
  • checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context
  • asking questions to improve their understanding of a text
  • drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
  • predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
  • identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarising these
  • identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning
• retrieve and record information from non-fiction
• participate in discussion about both books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say

Year 3 Shared Reading books