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St Peter-In-Thanet CE Junior School
St Peter-In-Thanet CE Junior School

Year 3

Welcome to the Summer Term!

The Year 3 team hope you all had an enjoyable Easter break and look forward to welcoming the children back to over final two terms together.

Things to note:

  • Every Monday, the children will continue to receive their spellings to learn and these words will be tested in class every Friday. Please take the time to look through these spellings with your child and complete the activities throughout the week.
  • We encourage daily reading and appreciate this being evidenced in their reading record to support them in class. Reading frequently helps your child to make progress and therefore we encourage your child to be read at home a minimum of three times per week.
  • Please continue to encourage your child to learn their tables, starting with 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.

  • PE days for Terms 5 & 6: Monday, Thursdays and Fridays

Any questions or queries, please do continue to ask your child’s class teacher – we are at the classroom door at the end of every day and are always happy to talk to you.

Year 3 Team

3L – Mrs Lance, Miss Walsh  (TA) and Miss Couldridge (TA)

3B – Mrs Bruna, Miss Relf (TA) and Mrs Mulligan (TA)

3J – Mrs Jones and Mrs Dooley (TA)

 

During the next two terms, our topics will be Raging Rivers (Term 5) – Geography focussed and Fantastic Forces (Term 6) – Science focussed.

Term 5 – Raging Rivers

In ‘Raging River, we will be learning about how rivers are formed and how they impact the environment. We will kick off this topic by immersing the children in an exciting activity, where they will be able to explore where major rivers are around the world using an atlas.

In Maths, we will be learning about fractions. The children will understand the part-whole relationship, as well as add, subtract, compare and order fractions. Additionally, we will be learning about time. We will learn how to read analogue and digital clocks to the nearest minute.

In English, we will have a focus text, ‘Oliver and the Seawigs’. The children will be writing in role, enjoying narrative writing and using descriptive vocabulary. In guided reading, we will be continuing to enjoy the whole class text ‘Krindlekrax’, where we will explore vocabulary and improve our retrieval and inference skills.

Term 6 – Fantastic Forces

In Term 6, we will focus our learning of Science through enquiries into forces and magnets. The children will take part in various investigations to learn how forces work in everyday life and to find out which materials are magnetic.

In Maths, we will continue to build on our knowledge about time from Term 5, calculating the length of time intervals. We will then complete a topic on angles and shapes, looking at 2D and 3D shapes and the angles within them. At the end of the term, we will be focussing on measures. We will learn how to measure and convert between litres and millilitres, as well as grams and kilograms.

In English, our focus text will be ‘Iron Man’ to link with our Fantastic Forces topic in Science. Through writing, we will refine our recount writing and progress onto writing a newspaper report. In guided reading, we will improve our comprehension skills through the book ‘PRIDE’, whilst learning about the challenges that people in our world have faced.