Welcome to Year 3 

Teacher: Miss Addison   
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Layton

                              

Summer Spring 2nd Half Term Objectives

Year: 3      Date: March 2022

This is intended for parents and pupils to share the learning objectives for the term. It also provides targets for the term ahead.

MATHS

Maths

 

Objectives:

 

  • measure the perimeter of simple 2D shapes
  • recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non‐unit fractions with small denominators
  • compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators
  • recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
  • different intervals of scale
  • measure mass in Kg and g
  • add, subtract and compare mass
  • measure capacity in l and ml
  • compare and order capacities
  • add and subtract capacities

solve problems using mass and capacity

My Maths target is:
To know 8 times table and re-cap 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 10’s
 
ENGLISH

Our book this half term in The Adventures of Robin Hood written by Marcia Williams.

In our English lessons, we are going to be:

  • Develop characters through action, description and dialogue.
  • Build a varied and rich vocabulary used within their writing.
  • To write a play-script about a familiar story.
  • Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
  • To assess their own and others writing suggesting improvements.
  • Read books that are structured in different ways – play-script and fact file.
  • Read aloud, showing understanding through intonation, tone and volume.
  • Draw inferences regarding a characters feelings, thoughts, and motives from their actions.
  • Use exclamation marks accurately.
  • Use adverbs to express time and cause.
  • Use basic punctuation correctly and consistently.

Other useful information for this term:
  • Remember your reading book and planner every day.
  • Please write in your child’s planner whenever you hear them read, this does not have to be their school reading book, it can be a library book, a book your child enjoys reading, etc. Remember there are example questions to ask them about their book in the planner.
  • English Homework is set on a Tuesday and due in Friday. Maths homework is set on Friday and due in on a
  • Spellings are given out on Fridays for a test the following
  • PE is on Thursday this half term, please tie up long hair and take out earrings or provide plasters. Please send your children wearing their P.E. kit and their swimming costume/trunks, towel and swimming hat in a bag.
  • Please remember to bring a drink everyday - water only.

 

Discovery Quest Topic

 Is Bloxwich Special?