Welcome to Year 3
Wasp and Earwig are our Year 3 classes at the Isle of Ely Primary School. From this page you will be able to read about our curriculum each half term and all the work we get up to in and out of the classroom.
Children have PE on Friday and go swimming on Monday (wasps) and Wednesday (earwigs). They will need to arrive in their P.E. kits on these days.
We will also be updating our website with pictures, work and more!
Who works in Year 3:
Miss Lucy Peck Mrs Fruzsina Radnothy Mrs Ilmie Yasan
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Miss Michelle Reitinger Mrs Amy Wreathall
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Our Curriculum:
This half term we will be learning:
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English |
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Maths |
In Maths we will be developing the children's understanding of place value to be able to make representations of numbers up to a thousand. Pupils will use place value grids, base tens and pictorial representations to support them to partition, compare and order numbers. |
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Science |
Our science topic is the Human Body. Pupils will learn about muscles, skeletons, the digestive system and nervous system. |
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History |
In history we are studying Ancient Greece. |
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Geography |
In geography pupils will develop their map skills and apply their learning to the geography of the local area. |
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PE |
PE will be on Friday and the children will be focusing on Dance. On Monday, Wasp class will go swimming and on Wednesday Earwig class will go swimming. |
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R.E (Religious Education) |
In RE, pupils will learn Judaism. They will explore the beliefs, symbols and the celebrations within Judaism. |
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Spanish |
In Spanish, the children will learn greetings, numbers and how to ask how you are feeling. |
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PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) |
Our Jigsaw unit this half term is 'Being me in my world'. This celebrates how we are all unique and starts to explore their role in the world around them. |
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Art |
Our art topic is about elements in art- colours and lines. Pupil will learn how to mix secondary and tertiary colours and explore how artists choose colours and lines in their work. |
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D&T (Design and Technology) |
In D&T, pupils will learn about sewing. |
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Music |
In music pupils will be learning about singing techniques. |
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Computing |
Pupils will be learning about internet safety and networks. |
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Home Learning |
All pupils can also access TTRockstars at home. You may also wish to find additional activities on Oak Academy or BBC bitesize. This is a link to all the common exception word spellings from Year 1 to Year 4 for you to practise with your child at home. |
Knowledge Organisers:
At the Isle of Ely Primary School, we use knowledge organisers as a tool to help our children learn more and remember more and to allow parents and carers to support their children's learning. In our knowledge organisers, you will find essential knowledge, key dates, important vocabulary and key figures. The knowledge organisers can also be used as a fun assessment tool which will help children to see the progress they have made.
Our current spelling words: Our class text:
Weekly newsflash
Week beginning: 7th October
First of all, thank you to those parents that were able to attend our Parent Share session. We hope you also enjoy our class story 'The Worries' as much as we do. Many children wore yellow clothes to support World Mental Health day and the children enjoyed discussing activities that are good for our wellbeing and giving compliments to each other. We've had a wonderful week of learning! In maths, we have started to dive deeper into addition by exploring the concept of exchange in more detail. We've written our own wishing tale in English, where our poor character meets a magical creature that can grant a wish. Our poor character needs so many things but can only have one wish! At last, after much thinking, our poor character has thought of a very clever wish to improve their life. The children have been so creative in their stories and have worked very hard at editing their work. In History, we learned about the ruthless leader Alexander the Great. In R.E. we learned about different items we can find in a synagogue and also what people use synagogues for. In Science, we continued to learn about the digestive system in more detail. The children now understand how important intestines are, as they absorb nutrients from the food that we eat. This was demonstrated using tights, a banana and some water. In Geography, we looked at features of large scale and small scale maps. We used our geographical knowledge of grid references, vertical lines and horizontal lines to explore different kinds of lines in Art. We drew many different kinds of lines, such as vertical, horizontal, straight, wavy, zigzag, curved, scalloped, thick and thin lines. In music, we performed like Vikings by playing instruments and singing to a beat. In PSHE, we have learned how to make someone feel like a valued member of our class and school. Have a great weekend!
Week beginning: 30th September
Year 3 have worked incredibly hard this week. In Maths, the children have begun their new topic of addition and subtraction and have been focusing on how to use their number bonds within 10 to help find related facts. Additionally, the children have learnt about adding or subtracting from the 1s or 10s column. The children have made a fantastic start in this unit. In English, we are created an innovated version of our core text 'The King of the Fishes'. As a class we create a wishing tale following an artist who finds a magical lamp in a cave and wishes for a paintbrush that can bring things to life. The children were creative and thoughtful in writing their own versions. The children are still enjoying our class book 'The Worries' and spent time in guided reading focusing on the skills of prediction and inference. In History, we learnt about the Persian War and the children created their own comic strip detailing the events of the Battle of Marathon or the Battle of Thermopylae. In Art, the children learnt about using tones, shades and tints in their artwork and experimented with this. In science, we continued learning about the Human body with a focus on the digestive system. The children could recall the role of the brain, the eyes, the mouth, the teeth and the stomach in the process of digestion.
Week beginning: 23rd September
Year 3 have had another busy and enjoyable week. We have been learning different features of our wishing tale toolkit, such as co-ordinating conjunctions and writing paragraphs. We have finished our place value unit in maths and we will begin our second unit next week. In science, we continued to explore the human body and learned about the nervous system. We looked at Mondrian’s artwork and then created our own piece in Art. The children learned how to read grid references on a map in Geography. Our young historians loved learning about Spartan warriors and used words such as brave and courageous whilst describing them. In music, we have been learning how to sing like Vikings and we learned about music notation. In PSHE, the children have created their own class charter, which includes rights and responsibilities such as the right to learn and the right to be heard. The children are enjoying their swimming lessons very much and are doing a great job at listening to their instructors. What a great week! We wish you a wonderful weekend!
Week beginning 16th September:
Year 3 have had a very positive week this week. It was the first swimming lesson for both classes which they all enjoyed and were organised into swimming groups for their upcoming lessons. They were safe and responsible on the journey there and back and were fantastic representatives of the school. In English, we learnt our new text map for our wishing tale 'The King of the Fishes' and began identifying the features that make up a text map. The children recapped sentence writing and using adjectives and successfully created some fantastic descriptive sentences. In Maths, the children have continued their learning on place value and have covered numbers to 1,000 as well as using number lines. In History, the children learnt about the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens and why they introduced democracy and the impact it had. In science the children continued their learning about the human body and this week focused on the skeleton, they should a fantastic understanding of important bones and the role that bones play in our bodies. In Music, the children created actions to accompany the song that they learnt last week. Have a fantastic weekend!
Week beginning 9th September:
Hello and welcome to our class page! Both Year 3 classes have settled in well and have had a great week of learning. This week in English, the children wrote a poem based on the Magic Box. In maths, we have been exploring place value and looking at numbers up to 1000. In Science, we have started to learn about our voluntary and involuntary muscles. In History, we have started to explore Ancient Greece and the important city- states, such as Athens and Sparta. In Art, we recapped primary and secondary colours and learned about warm and cool colours. In Geography, we learned how a compass works and learned to tell the directions on an 8-point compass. In Music, we are developing our singing skills by singing a song about Vikings. In R.E., we learned where Judaism started and how it has spread around the world. In PSHE, we have thought about our goals for the next year and discussed our feelings as well as whom to talk to when we feel worried. In guided reading, we have started to read our class story, The Worries, and are really enjoying it. In computing, we have learned how electronic devices form networks. We have also learned about how the internet works. We have also started learning Spanish and can now greet people in Spanish. In PE, we are beginning to learn about dance. We are really looking forward to all of the fun things we will learn next week, including our first swimming lesson!