Year 3 Curriculum
What will your child be doing in Year 3?
Year 3 has a structured timetable. Mathematics and English are taught each day and lessons last for approximately 50 minutes. All classes will complete the same work during the week.
Literacy
By the end of the year it is our aim that the children will:
Oral
· Be able to present ideas and arguments in a clear, confident and organised manner using grammatically correct English both in a formal and informal setting.
Writing
· Write consistently in a neat and legible cursive style, forming and joining letters correctly.
· Compare various styles of story writing and be able to break down the components of a story.
· Use punctuation correctly including question marks and speech marks where necessary.
· Use an ever increasing range of vocabulary whilst writing in different genre: story, report, journals, poetry and letters using fictional and non-fictional themes.
· Spell all basic sight words correctly and know phonic sounds including simple and more complex phonic blends
· Locate words in a simple dictionary and achieve close phonetic attempts at spelling unknown words
Reading
Most children are reading independently by now, choosing their own books from a carefully graded selection of books available in the library. The children will be encouraged to read with expression and show awareness of the content of the text. To recount, predict, offer ideas and opinions are all skills that will be developed. Children will be encouraged to think about what makes a good book and to complete book reviews.
All children will read in class during the course of the day. We aim to hear them all read from their books twice a week, please continue to hear them reading at home this year even if they are able to read fluently on their own. We will also have some paired and guided reading during the course of the week.
Numeracy
The children will work from a variety of schemes and become confident in working with a text book. It is our aim that by the end of the year the children will:
· Learn, by heart, number facts to 20 involving addition, subtraction, carrying and decomposition.
· Use tens and units (with hundreds for those able)
· Simple multiplication and division including learning of tables
· Work with measurement of length, weight and capacity using metric units
· Know the attributes of 2D and 3D shapes and work with symmetry, reflection and tiling
· Use their knowledge of money to solve problems.
· Have a working knowledge of time, both analogue and digital
· Work with fractions
· Work with multiplication tables, up to 12
All work will be reinforced through the use of games, practical activities and problem solving. Children will be expected to keep tidy and ordered records of their work in exercise books and folders.
Science Specialist teaching ensures that the children develop skills for investigation and evaluation through topics which include reversible and irreversible changes, circuits and conductors, moving and growing, the three states of matter (solids, liquids, gases) and habitats.
I.C.T The children will develop skills for use in activities such as spread sheets, data handling, databases and graphic and word processing.
History We study a range of topics in this subject– Vikings, Explorers (their lives and achievements) and Ancient Egypt
Geography The children have the opportunity to use local knowledge with Ordnance Survey literature, find out about continents and major cities of the world (linked with the History topic of explorers) and look at the development of rivers.
R.E We look at important religious events in the year and study a variety of places of worship including churches, mosques, temples and synagogues.
Art One double lesson a week, in the Highfield art room, gives us the opportunity to work with a range of materials and techniques during the course of the year. The focus is a mix of development of creativity and imagination along with refining and learning specific skills and techniques. The children will sometimes work on projects that may take several lessons to complete.
Sport Throughout the year the children are helped to develop gross motor skills, spatial awareness, body position and hand/eye co-ordination. This is extended through games such as rugby, football, hockey, netball, rounders and cricket.