YEAR THREE NEWSLETTER
Information for parents and children
January 2008
Happy New Year!!
We hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. A big thank you to everyone who joined Year 3 before Christmas for the Craft morning. It was great to see so many parents, grandparents and other relatives joining in the sticking and gluing.
Homework
Well done to all of Year 3 (and their parents / relatives) for putting so much effort into completing and returning the homework on time. Keep up the good work this year!
Homework will be set from 18th January 2008, and will follow the same routine of being set on Friday and returned on Wednesday.
Easter Performance
Preparations are already underway for this. Our performance will have a modern touch, so costumes will be easy to provide. Probably jeans and a T-shirt – more details to follow.
Year 3 Spring Term Curriculum
| Science | - Magnets and springs - Materials |
| ICT | -Data Bases - Curriculum linked work |
| DT | - Packaging |
| Geography | - Weather around the world |
| Music | - Easter performance singing |
| Art | - Sculpture |
| PE | - Games - Dance - 3G swimming |
| RE | - Caring for the natural world. - Easter |
| Dates | |
| Half Term | 11th - 15th February |
| Easter performance | 12th March pm |
| Easter performance | 14th March am |
Spring Term Literacy During the term we shall be covering the following units in our Literacy lessons |
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| Narrative, Plays and scripts |
Adventure and Mystery |
| Non- Fiction | Instructions |
| Poetry | Poems to perform |
Spring Term Numeracy
During the term we shall be covering the following units from the renewed Primary Framework. These units consolidate and extend work from the previous term
Counting, Partitioning and calculating:
Partition three digit numbers into multilples of 100,10 and 1 in different ways. Recall addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20. Add or subtract mentally combinations of one-digit and two-digit numbers.
Securing Number facts and Understanding shape:
Recall multiplication facts for the 2,3,4,5,6 and 10 times tables and the corresponding division facts. Relate 2-D shapes and 3-D solids to drawings of them; describe, visualise. Classify and draw them. Identify patterns and relationships involving number or shapes, and use them to solve problems.
Handling data and Measures:
Know the relationships between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres. Estimate, measure and record measurements. Organise and interpret data; use tally charts, frequency tables, pictograms and bar charts.
Calculalting, Measuring and understanding shape:
Find units fractions of numbers and quantities. Read the time on 12 hour digital clock and to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock. Use the four compass movemets to describe movement about a grid.
Games Kit
Indoor kit - white tee shirt and dark shorts. (3S only in the Spring Term)
Monday am
Outdoor kit - trainers and suitable clothing for cold weather.
No football shirts please.
3G – Friday 3S - Friday
Swimming – Trunks/costume/hat
3G – Tuesday am.
Communication
Parents please feel free to write any comments or messages in your child’s Diary or Homework Book.
In Year 3 children are able to independently choose a reading book from the classroom bookshelf. This book is read at home and in free time in the class, which means it must be brought to school each day. Your child can record titles of books read in their Reading Record diary. Please note that teachers do not sign this book on a regular basis. Children will read an alternative book in the class during Guided Reading.