Welcome to Year 3 Dolphins!

In English this Autumn term we will be writing our own Dolphin poems and reading the book ‘Cave Baby’ along with many other stone age themed books. We will plan and write our own stories while learning about how to use the correct grammar and punctuation. Our non-fiction writing will be instructions on how to wash a tricky animal, a woolly mammoth!

Following the White Rose maths curriculum, we will be learning about place value of numbers to 1000, addition and subtraction. Alongside this we will continue to practise our times tables through Times Table Rock stars (TTRS) and daily practise in class and at home.

We are focussing on rocks and soils in science for the first half term and light is the focus of the second half term.  In these lessons we will learn new vocabulary and be developing our scientific skills through simple experiments. We will be continuing with Katie in our ‘Let’s Grow’ sessions in the school allotment.

In RE, the focus is on pilgrimages. What they are, what they mean to the people who make them and the similarities and differences there are, them depending on which faith the pilgrim follows.

The more that you read, the more things you will know! Please make sure your book bags are in school every day. TTRS log-ins will be handed out in the second week - so you can use the TTRS app at home and continue to develop fluency in the multiplication and division facts of the times tables you are learning.

In PSHE/RHE we will be learning about our rights and responsibilities living in a diverse and inclusive community and as British citizens. There will be a focus on our similarities and differences, whilst teaching care and empathy. The focus of this half term is trust.

History is all about the Stone Age to the Iron Age. Researching to find out what people ate, how they lived and sheltered and what changed as the time moved on and it became the Iron Age.

Our PE days will be Mondays and Tuesdays this term so please come to school in your PE kits on those days. This half term the focus is pickle ball and tennis, and we have some lovely new equipment to use!

In music, the children will be learning about pulse using the song Let Your Spirit Fly by Joanna Mangona, developing and using the correct musical vocabulary as well as comparing the similarities and differences across a range of musical genres.

Finally, if you have any questions or need to speak to us, please catch us at the end of the school day or make an appointment by phoning the school office.

Here’s to a fantastic first  half term!

Mrs Turner , Mrs Dickinson and Mrs Anderson