Year 3 Curriculum Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers,

Year 3 - Curriculum Newsletter

Welcome back to the new academic year! We hope you find this letter informative, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher if you have any questions relating to the curriculum.

Homework:

Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:

• 15 minutes reading to themselves or an adult and note in the reading record
• 15 minutes practising spellings
• 15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)

If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Learning Challenge for children to attempt this half of the Autumn Term. All of the activities are based around a significant person, poem or painting relating to our topics. Children do not have to attempt every activity but instead select the activities that they are most interested in and compile a project that reflects the extra time and effort that they have put into their challenge. We hope that children will take their time with the challenge and be proud of the work they produce they should hand this into their teacher at the end of the half term.

Spellings:

Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. We encourage the children to write their words in sentences on the back of their homework sheet. Their spelling test will take place on Fridays. Children in Read, Write, Inc groups could have their spellings given out and tested on different days.

Rockstar Times tables:

Children will be completing their timestables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise timestables with your children at home.

Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this half term. If you have any questions about the topics being covered, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor Mr Nicol

Sequoia Class Teacher Hazel Class Teacher

Autumn Term
	1st Half Term	2nd Half Term
Literacy	Spelling, grammar and punctuation Creating a setting Instructions	Spelling, grammar and punctuation Playscripts Information Texts
	Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read. For a good selection of children books visit the local library.
Numeracy	Place Value & Number Reasoning with 3 digit numbers ‘Count on us’ weekly session - tangrams, pentonimoes etc.	Multiplication and Division Addition & Subtraction Time ‘Count on us’ weekly session - tangrams, pentonimoes etc.
	This can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
ICT	Using Chromebooks Google Classroom Keyboard Skills	E Safety
Science	Human Body and Senses	Human Body & Senses
	You could visit the Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
History/ Geography	How has architecture influenced society across the ages?	How has architecture influenced society across the ages?
R.E		Hinduism - Festival of Diwali
P.E	Netball/Football/Tag Rugby	Netball/Football/Tag Rugby
	PE will be on Mondays. Please ensure your child brings in their kit.
Music	Rhythm and Pitch Music around the world	Rhythm and Pitch Christmas Production
Art/ Design and Technology	Faces and Expressions	3D Sculptures
French	Greetings, classroom instructions, animals, numbers.	Genders, storytelling, French names, Christmas.
P.H.S.E	Rights & Responsibilities
Trips	Our first trip will be to the new MOD Pizza resaturant in Romford, where the children will be making their own pizzas to support their writing of instructions in Literacy & Language. Date to be confirmed letter to follow.