Miss. McBride is our teacher in Cedar Class.

Ms. MacDiarmid is our teacher in Hazel Class.

Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Platt, Miss. Charmley, and Miss. Rutland work with us in Year 3.

 

Life in Year 3:

The children in Year 3 are looking forward to an amazing Autumn Term in 2024. 

Each day, we have a focused session on Reading, Writing, Maths and Shared Reading/Phonics.

We also enjoy lots of opportunities to learn about Science, Computing, Spanish, History, Geography, PSHE, RE, Art, DT, PE, and Music.

This half-term, both Cedar and Hazel classes will continue to have PE on a Friday afternoon.

Your child will need a yellow Pinehurst t-shirt, navy shorts/joggers, and a pair of pumps or trainers in school to take part.  

 

Our Curriculum:

At Pinehurst Primary School we aim to provide a broad and balanced curriculum that provides the children with opportunities to Experience, Excel and Enjoy.

We aim to foster a lifelong love of learning, through delivery of a twenty-first century education.

A cross-curricular approach to learning encourages the children to be independent, reflective learners and responsible citizens and through our website, Twitter (X) feed and Class Dojo pages, we work closely with our families to support children’s learning. 

English and Maths skills that we will be developing in Year 3

English:

We follow a quality text based approach to English. This half-term, our quality text is: The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo.

This year we will be reading and discussing a variety of texts, reading aloud, making predictions and summarising what we have read. We will be using dictionaries to check the meanings of new words that we meet and showing understanding of what we have read through drama and role-play activities. Children will be also be reading different texts in school during shared reading sessions each morning. We also have a class book that we read at the end of the day.

We aim to improve our writing this year by planning, drafting and proofreading our work for errors and improvements. We wil start to use the horizontal and diagonal stokes needed to join letters and increase the legibility and consistency or our handwriting.

In Spelling we will be learning about how to add prefixes and suffixes to words to change their meaning and choosing approprtiate homophones for our writing including berry/bury, great/grate, main/mane and here/hear. We will also be learning how to spell the words on our Year 3/4 word list (this can be found within the documents below).

Our grammar focus will be on adding detail and interest to our sentences through the use of conjunctions to join and extend sentences, using adverbs and preopsitions to express time, place and cause and using nouns and pronouns for clarity and cohesion. We will be continuing to punctuate different sentence types correctly as well as learning how to use the possesive apostrophe and how to punctuate direct speech with inverted commas. 

Maths: 

In Maths we will be exploring the following:

Numbers to 1000

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Length

Mass

Volume

Money

Time

Pictograms and Bar Graphs

Fractions

Angles

Lines and Shapes

Perimeter of Figures

Wider Curriculum in Year 3:

This half-term our topics include:

Science - Rocks and Soils

History - Changes in Britain from Stone Age to Iron Age

DT - 3D Packaging

PE - Invasion Games and Gymnastics

Computing - Being Internet Legends

RE - Why is the Bible important for Christians today?

PSHE - Celebrating Differences

Spanish - School Life

Please see our Curriculum Newsletter at the bottom of the page for more information. 

  

How can I help and support my child at school?

Please encourage your child to read at home as much as possible. You can record their reading in the Home Reading Diary.  

Reading books should be read at least three times before being returned to school to change for a new one.

Please ensure that your child brings their bookbag to school every day.

Books will be changed every Friday.

  

Homework in Year 3:

Homework is posted on our Class Dojo platform, and (following our most recent Parents' Evening) may also be sent home as a paper exercise.

Homework activities will include a mix of Reading, English, Maths, Spellings and Wider Curriculum.

Information and homework will be posted on Class Dojo.

Logins for Class Dojo are sent home at the beginning of each half-term.

Please contact your child's class teacher if you are having difficulty accessing Class Dojo so you don't miss any important messages.

 

Key websites your child can use to support their learning in Year 3:

Phonics & Spelling:

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/ 

Reading:

https://www.readliverpool.co.uk/

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

Maths:

https://mathsnoproblem.com/en/mastery/what-is-maths-mastery/

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning 

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://numbots.com/ 

Practical ideas to support your child with their learning:

Sharing books, reading with and to your child. 

Visiting places of interest, talking to your child about them, and encouraging them to ask questions.

Places you may choose to visit: the library, country parks and local nature reserves, museums, etc. 

Finding time to play and work with others. 

Seizing any opportunities to be creative.

To keep up to date with our learning journey, don’t forget to follow us on X:

School account: @PinehurstP

Cedar Class account: @MissMcBride20

Hazel Class account: @Y3HazelClass

Please continue to share with us your tweets about your learning outside of school - we love seeing the amazing work our families do at home to support learning!