Mrs Williams	Mrs Madden	Mrs Newton	Miss Choy

 

Year 3 Poplar Class 2024-2025 

 

In Summer 2, we will be learning: 

Writing:

 In English we will be learning the change story ‘The Stone Trolls’.  We will be using Talk for Writing techniques to learn the text. Within this unit, we will be focusing on the setting toolkit. We will be learning how to create settings that the reader can imagine which sound real and has an atmosphere. We will be learning how to bring the setting to life using carefully chosen verb and adverbs, how to show how a character reacts to the setting through emotive verbs, use our senses to bring the setting to life as well as embedding our knowledge how to use similes to help the reader picture the setting, sentences of 3 to pile up the description and prepositions to show where things are in the setting.

  

Guided Reading: 

In Guided Reading, we will be reading the text ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ by Shirley Climo. We will be learning how to predict what might happen from details stated and implied in the text, explore the meaning of words in context, how to identify the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and how to summarise the text.

Within this term we will also read the non fiction text ‘Wonderful things’. We will be focusing on how to use dictionaries to help check the meaning of words that we have read, ask questions to improve understanding and identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise.

 

Maths:  

This half term we will be completing our Power Maths units.

 In Unit 13,  we will be learning about time. We will be learning to tell the time to the nearest minute.

In Unit 14, we will be learning about angles and properties of shapes. 

In Unit 15, we will be learning about statistics and using pictograms and bar charts.

 

Science:

This half term, our Science topic will be  Rocks and Soils. We will be learning how to identify different rocks including chalk, sandstone, limestone and marble. We will be identifying the difference between a rock, stone, pebble and boulder and describing their appearance. We will classify rocks into at least three different groups based on their appearance, create models of how sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks are formed, test rocks for hardness, explain how fossils are formed and identify different types of soil and create a model of the layers of soil.

 

Geography: 

We will be learning about coasts and in particular the coasts of United Kingdom. We will be locating coastal towns on a map of Great Britain  and  looking more closely at the coasts of the North West of England. We will compare ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ coastlines  and use geographical vocabulary to describe these.

 

PE: In PE are unts are tennis and yoga.

In tennis we will learn to control the tennis ball with the racket and develop our ability to hold a rally and play simple games.

In yoga we will be learning how yoga can help the body and mind. We will learn several poses and put them together to create a flow.

 

Design and Technolgy:

 This term we will be be looking at structures in a unit called ‘Castles’. We will be drawing a labelling a simple castle including the most common features, recognise that a castle is made up of multiple 3D shapes, design a castle with key features that satisfies a given purpose. We will create a castle by applying the skills of scoring card, cutting out nets of 3D shapes and using glue to securely assemble. We will evaluate our castles based on our design criteria.

 

Computing: 

This term we will be completing our learning about Desktop Publishing. We will becoming familiar with the terms ‘text’ and ‘images’ and use desktop publishing software to make choices about font size, colour and type to edit and improve premade documents. We will add text and images to create our own pieces of work and experiment with a range of page layouts. We will understand how desktop publishing is used in the real world.   

 

RE: 

In our RE lessons this term, we will be exploring the answer to the question - ‘What do Muslims believe happened on The Night of Power and how do they worship?’ We will be learning about who spoke to Muhammad in the cave,  how art is used to express belief in Islam, where Muslims worship, how Muslims prepare to pray, what Muslims believe about the Qur’an and what Muslims believe about Angels.

  

Music: 

In our Music lessons this term will be learning about traditional instruments and improvisation liked to Indian music.  We will be learning about traditional Indian music and instruments and form an opinion of Indian music. We will play a rag on a glockenspiel and learn how to add a drone to music using drums. We will create music using drone, rag and tall and perform it using musical notation.

 

PSHE: 

This term in PHSE we will be exploring Citizenship. We will learn about our rights and how these benefit us and find out about the responsibilities adults have for supporting children’s rights. We will discuss the benefits of recycling. We will recognise some of the different groups within our local community and how they use local buildings and how charities support the local community. We will find out how democracy works locally and how this affects us.

 

MFL: 

This term in French we will be learning about Pets and celebrating Bastille Day. We will be learning how to recall the names of common pets e.g. dog, cat, rabbit, fish, bird and discuss how to use the plural word when needed. Children will ask and answer questions about their pets.

 

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

Important Information for Summer 2

 

Our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays. Please be reminded of Whitby Heath's PE kit: 

 

• Team colour t-shirt ( Donaldson- yellow, Dahl- red, Suess- green, Rowling- blue)
• Plain black shorts
• Black pumps for indoor PE
• Trainers for outdoor PE
• Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather 
• Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

 

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week. 

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings. 

Homework Information

Maths homework is set each week on Mirodo

English homework is set on Dojo and alternates between Oracy and Spelling.

 

 

 

Times Tables

Please also practise the times tables that your child is on. Children are tested twice every week and cannot move on to the next times table until they have passed their current level three times. This includes multiplication and division.

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 3 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way. 

Other useful websites for learning at home

• Mirodo

 

• Timestables Rockstars

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
All children have a login for this website.

• Hit the Button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
A great way to practice times tables at home.

• Newsround

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
A place for children to keep up with current events!

• National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
A lovely website for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.

• BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
A place full of information that covers the range of the subjects and topics we study in school.

 

 

 

 

 

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