Year 3-Hello and welcome to our class page!
Year 3 2024 - 2025
In Year 3, children start a new Key Stage, they individually grow as a learner and become more independent. They build on their handwriting work from Year 2, becoming more confident joining their letters.
All lessons are planned carefully to ensure all children are supported in their learning. Year 3 love to take their learning outside whether it be Geography in our fieldwork lessons or measuring and comparing in our Maths lessons.
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MATHS
At St Alban's we follow a Mastery Approach to teaching Maths following the White Rose Maths scheme. In Autumn term, Year 3 will be learning about Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. We still use lots of concrete resources and pictorial representation to support our understanding of key concepts._20251002171458331.jpg)
We regulary encounter Tiny the turtle (who often makes mistakes for us to correct) and we tackle reasoning and problem solving questions both as a whole class and independently. 
For multiplication and division practice at home, children can battle with online interactive games on Times Tables Rock Stars. They can compete against their peers or independently to earn coins that allow them to improve their rock star avatars.
English
For our English lessons we follow the Pathways to Write scheme. This half term the book we are studying is Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman.
The children will write a letter from the boy to his grandfather telling him about the events he has missed. To achieve this, the mastery keys we are following are:
• Group related ideas into paragraphs
• Build a varied and rich vocabulary
• Use prepositions to express time, place and cause
• Introduce inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
Reading
Year 3 have weekly class reading sessions following the Pathways to Read scheme. The book we are reading this half term is 'Sea Book.' Throughout the sessions children will learn to retrieve and record information from non-fiction, use dictionaries to check the meaning of words they have read and identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
Spellings are taught throughout English and Reading lessons.
Children are also expected to read at least three times a week. Books and reading records should be brought into school everyday and are checked on a Monday.
The Reading Plus programme can also be used at home and go towards childrens weekly reads.
RE
As a Catholic School the teaching of the Church is at the heart of everything we do. As well as daily prayer and liturgy, we follow the 'To Know You More Clearly' programme. The topics are delivered in branches and the overarching theme of this year is celebrating the Eucharist.
Our first topic for this term is Branch 1 – 'Creation and Covenant'.
By the end of this unity of study, pupils will know:
- That the Creation stories in Genesis use symbolism to explain the relationship between God, human beings, and the world.
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That in the first account of the Creation one day is ‘made holy’ (Genesis 2:3)
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That in the Church teaches that ‘Creation is the common work of the Holy Trinity’.
Geography
Our Geography lessons will have the enquiry focus of Counties and Cities of the UK.
Year 3 will learn what and where are the different counties of the UK; human and physical features of these counties; making a comparison between counties and drawing a map with a key.
FRENCH
Year 3 have weekly French lessons which are supported by resources from the Language Angels scheme. Lessons are fun, pacey and involved lots of receptive practise before moving onto produding language. We play lots of games and have plenty of opportunity to practise the vocabulary on our sentence builders for each half term. We are currently completing a unit called 'Mon Animal'.
We focus heavily on phonics and learn techniques to help us pronounce sounds in French.
Science
In Science, we follow the Developing Experts Scheme and our topic for this term is Plants. This unit covers: comparing the effect of different factors on plant growth. Identify and describe the functions of different parts of a flowering plant and how they are used in photosynthesis. Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants. Explore the life cycle of flowering plants. Understand the pollination process and the ways in which seeds are dispersed. Compare the effect of different factors on plant growth.
Our second topic will be about Rocks. This unit covers: learning how to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties; how to describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock and finally learn how to recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
Art
The focus for this half term in Art is sclupture and our artist study is Edwina Bridgeman. Year 3 will be exploring a range of rigid and malleable materials suitable for sculptutres, investigating different adhesives and methods of connecting materials and producing their own scultpure based on the work of Edwina Bridgeman.
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PE
Year 3's PE day is Thursday, children come to school wearing their PE kit.
Throughout the year, Year 3 will experience a range of sporting activites where they will develop their skills and improve their fitness levels. These activities include Gymnastics, Athletics, Rugby, Tennis and Dance.
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Music
This year we are incredibly lucky to be working alongside specialist music teachers from Music Medley and Year 3 are LOVING their weekly music lessons. So far we have begun to create our own musical sentences, sang and moved along to a range of amazing songs by artists such as Katie Perry, Bruno Mars and Elvis, we have used the glockenspiels and other musical instruments and are currently working with the notes C, F and G._20251002174126456.jpg)