Welcome to Year 3

A warm welcome to the Year 3 area of the Sheringham website.

Here you will find important information about the year ahead.

This year, our Year 3 team includes 

• Ms Smith - Year Group Leader (Class 3S)
• Ms Brady - Class Teacher (Class 3B)
• Ms Hood - Class Teacher (Class 3H)
• Ms Adam - Educational Assistant 
• Ms Lacatus - Educational Assistant 

We're really excited about our curriculum in Year 3. Please read on for more details about what we're learning this year. To find out more, visit our website's curriculum area or have a read about the specific skills and knowledge in the National Curriculum here.

 PE Days

Physical Education (PE) is a really important part of our curriculum, supporting physical health and wellbeing as well as developing key skills such as teamwork. Your child will have 2 PE lessons a week - one with their class teacher and one with our PE specialist, Mr Owusu. 

Please check your child's PE days (below) so that you can make sure they're wearing appropriate clothing to school on these days (jogging bottoms or leggings, a white t-shirt and trainers - plus a sweatshirt/jumper in colder weather). 

Each class will have their PE lessons on:

Reading 

We love reading at Sheringham and know that it is a really important part of our curriculum. We have daily reading lessons.

In Year 3, we teach reading using the Destination Reader programme. 

Children are learning to:

• Retrieve information

• Make connections (to the world around them and their experiences)
• Summarise information
• Evaluate text and pictures
• Infer characters feelings
• Clarify unknown words
• Predict what might happen next. 

Developing a love of reading is a huge part of our curriculum. We'll be enjoying a range of text types and authors, including:

Wiggles Bottom Primary 

The Journey Home 

Izzy Gizmo & the Invention Convention 

Mr Fantastic Fox 

The Tin Forest 

Diary of the Killer Cat 

The Iron Man

We are continuing to develop strong reading habits across the year group. Children are encouraged to change their reading books regularly and bring their reading record into school every day.

Please support your child by helping them read for at least 10 minutes each day and recording this in their reading record.

Children will also have access to Reading Eggs, where they can read online books, complete comprehension questions, and develop their confidence as independent readers.

Writing

Our writing curriculum focuses on key areas including handwriting, spelling and composition. This year, we will be learning to: 

• use speech marks for when characters speak. 
• write in the past tense with accuracy. 
• group writing into paragraphs. 
• use conjunctions when writing compound and complex sentences. 
• use headings and sub-headings to organise information. 

We'll be applying our learning across a range of text types, including:

• Stories with familiar settings 
• Stories with a dilemma 
• Explanation writing 
• Set of instructions 
• Persuasive writing 
• Quest stories 
• Non-chronological report 

Maths

We're really passionate about maths at Sheringham! Children have two maths sessions a day. Our main lessons use the DfE approved mastery scheme  Maths No Problem to support children to develop their knowledge and understanding. In addition, children have a daily fluency session using Mastering Number.

This year, we'll be learning about:

• Numbers to 1000
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and Division
• Further Multiplication and Division
• Length
• Mass
• Volume and Capacity 
• Money
• Time
• Pictograms and Bar Graphs
• Fractions
• Angles
• Lines and Shapes
• Perimeter of Figures

We use https://play.ttrockstars.com/ to help with times tables practice. You can find your child's log in on the front cover of their homework book. 

Wider Curriculum

We teach RHE weekly and use Oak.

Enrichment

The Sheringham curriculum is enriched with lots of experiences, workshops and educational visits. This helps bring learning to life and gives all children the experiences they need to fully access their learning.

This year, our offer includes:

• Parent Writing Gallery 
• Reading Workshop for families 

School visits: 

• Visit to the park 
• Visit the Library 
• Visit to The Natural History Museum 

Enrichment:

Year 3 children will be invited to a Night Walk during the Summer Term.

Home Learning

Our homework offer is designed to give children time to practice their developing skills. 

The main focus is reading. Every child will bring home a book once a week. We ask that parents sign their children’s reading journals so that teachers can be aware of how children are getting on with reading at home. 

In addition, we send home weekly maths and writing. This is shared in their red homework book and on Google Classroom. 

We invite parents to workshops over the year, to share information about how we learn at school. Please check our weekly Arbor briefings for upcoming workshop dates.