Year 3
Welcome to Mice and Voles Classes
Hello and welcome to Year 3
Mice Class is taught by Ms Calder and our teaching assistant is Mr Monks and Voles Class (only created on 15th May 23) is currently taught by Mrs Copp and the teaching assistant is Mr Summers. Our classrooms are bright and well-resourced as they are in our lovely new Buttercup teaching block. We have designated ‘Reading Corners’ and a wonderful outdoor space, which is attached to our classroom. We use this to extend our learning, particularly in the spring and summer terms. We also have the special games area marked out for invasion games which is right outside our classrooms!
We enjoy English and Mathematicss every day. Most of our subjects are taught through an exciting knowledge based curricular approach. This year our topics are: ‘Stone age to Iron age’, ‘Extreme Earth’, ‘Ancient Egyptians’, ‘Wonderous Water’, Ancient Mayans’ and ‘Rainforests’. We have linked texts and often the art and design and technology consolidate the learning in history and geography.
Some of our subjects are taught by specialist staff including, Music, French, Art and Design Technology and PE. We have two weekly PE lessons on Thursdays and Fridays so please make sure the children come to school dressed in their PE kit on these days.
Our homework consists of weekly spellings, mathematics tasks linked to the current learning and TTRockstars (by the end of Year 4 all learners are expected to know their times tables up to 12 x 12). We are also encouraged to read with an adult at least four times a week at home and books are tracked and logged in reading records in school. We still have phonics decodables for all pupils to make sure everyone has a chance to decode confidently as we go up in KS2.
Below you will find some planning documents so that you can see what we will be taught and our ‘Spelling Booklet’ for the current term so that you can support us at home.
Derwent Mathematics Strategies
