Year 3 Poplar Class 2024 - 2025

Mrs Williams

Mrs Madden

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Mrs Williams Mrs Madden Mrs Newton Miss Choy

 

Year 3 Poplar Class 2023-2024

 
 

Important Information for Spring 2

 

Writing: In English we will be exploring the story ‘Staying Out’ . We will be using Talk for Writing techniques to learn the text. Within this unit, we will be looking at the suspense toolkit. We will be learning how to create suspense that builds tension, scares the reader and keeps them wanting to find out what will happen. We will be focusing on how to use show not tell to describe a character’s feelings, rhetorical questions to make the reader worried and developing our understanding of verbs and dramatic fronted adverbials. 
 
 
Guided Reading:  Pathways to Read- we will be reading ‘This morning I met a whale’ by Michael Morpurgo. Within this unit, we will be asking questions to improve understanding, drawing inferences and justifying with evidence from the text. We will be discussing the words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination. 
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Maths: This half term we will be completing our work in Unit 7 – Length and Perimeter. In Unit 8 we will learn about unit and non-unit fractions. In Unit 9 we will learning about mass and the different units of measure e.g. kg, g.  In Unit 10 we will be learning about Capacity and the different units of measure e.g. l,ml. We will apply our knowledge of the four operations across these units.  
 
 
Science: This half term, our Science topic will be Light. We will be learning about different light sources, reflection and shadows. We will investigate transparent, translucent and opaque objects. 
   
 
 
Geography: In our Geography lessons we will be learning about our world and answering the key question: Where on Earth are we? In this unit, the children will improve their locational knowledge through identifying the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones (including day and night). They will practise geographical skills through using maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate features studied. They will use the eight points of the compass to build their knowledge of the wider world.  
  
PE: In PE are two units are:- 
 Gymnastics- Indoor ( Wednesdays) - We will continue to explore different types of balances and different shapes and ways of travelling, put together to make a sequence.
 Hockey- Outdoor (Mondays) We will learn the rules of hockey and the art of attacking and defending.  
 
DT: We will be learning about Digital Wearable Technology. We will looking at digital wearable technology, designing our own light up wearables and programming micro: bits.   
 
Computing: This term we will be completing our learning about Scratch. We will learn how to programme   
 
RE: We are finding  about  Christianity  and answering the key questions - What do I think about Jesus and how is he portrayed in art from around the world? Why is the cross important for Christians?    
 
PSHE: This term we will be learning about our Health and Wellbeing. We learn about our super powers, communicating our feelings and resilience.  
 
Music: This term we will be developing our singing techniques by learning Viking songs. We will be learning how to move and sing as a team. We will recognise minims, crochets and quavers by ear and by sight. We will be performing rhythms accurately from notation and layer them to create a composition.  
 
MFL: This half term we will be learning about basic lunchtime food and create a simple café menu. We will be learning basic body parts.  

 

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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