Kingsway Primary SchoolTeam 3 2024 - 2025
Mrs Jones
Year 3 Teacher
Welcome to Team 3
The adults who help us in Team 3 are:
Mrs Jones - Class Teaher
Mr Snell - Teaching Assistant
Miss Wheadon - Teaching Assistant
To keep up to date with the latest news and work from Team 3 follow us on Twitter @PrimaryKingsway,@KingswayYear3 and on Class Dojo.
Reading
Reading is essential to all curriculum areas and we spend time focusing on reading every day. Our reading lessons Read Write Inc and VIPERS which consists of crafted units of reading and comprehension through high-quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts. Children use these to deepen their understanding of vocabulary, inference, evidence, retrieval and summarising skills.
Children also experience the joy of reading through a whole class novel. The class novel is a time to come together around a powerful, relevant text that engages the children and promotes discussion. In Team 3, we read a range of exciting texts.
Reading at home is essential. Reading books go home on a Friday and are returned to school the following week. Children are encouraged to record their own thoughts, feelings and ideas about what they have read in their reading records as well as comments made by adults at home.
Writing
Our writing lessons follow Pathways to Write, which is a programme of study designed to empower children to become confident and successful writers. The units of work centre on engaging, vocabulary-rich texts, with a wealth of both fiction and non-fiction writing opportunities.
Mathematics
Mathematics lessons follow White Rose Maths, which aims to develop children’s mathematical fluency and their deep, long-term and adaptable understanding of maths. The children can then use this knowledge and understanding to solve a range of maths problems. White Rose Maths adopts a concrete – pictorial – abstract method that enables all children to access learning and lessons are differentiated so that and all children achieve.
To supplement maths lessons, we also dedicate time daily to practise fluency where we rehearse basic number facts such as bonds and times tables. This is to improve the recall, automaticity and accuracy of key facts.
The Wider Curriculum
In Year 3, children are taught a broad and balanced curriculum that includes all of the National Curriculum subjects. Over the course of the year, different subjects are prioritised at different times to ensure coverage and maximum attainment in all areas. The curriculum is exciting, dynamic and has been designed to build upon the children’s prior knowledge.
Autumn 1:
This half term we will be studying Seal Surfer, a fictional story written by Michael Foreman. Pupils will immerse themselves in new, rich vocabulary, develop their sentence structure as well as working on their editing skills. The unit will conclude with them writing a letter in paragraphs from the point of view of a character.
In maths we will be exploring place value, addition and subtraction, using concrete, pictorial and abstract methods. We will apply our learning to solve problems.
In Science we will be learning all about the human body, including muscles, our skeleton and what it takes to stay fit and healthy. In computing we will be learning about networks and how to stay safe online.
Our big project this half term will be studying life through the ages, finding out what life was like in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age.
In our Jigsaw sessions we will be learning about ourselves and the world around us, we will develop a greater understanding of the roles and responsibilities we have and how to treat each other with respect and kindness.
Autumn 2:
In Autumn 2 we will be reading a new book, Winter’s Child (author Angella McCallister). This winter setting tells the tale of a friendship between two boys. There will be opportunities to revisit letter writing as well as the chance to create our own fictional tale. We will be developing our writing skills by using similes and prepositions. In maths we will be using our understanding of addition to develop our multiplication skills as repeated addition. We will be looking at using equipment to create arrays and look for related multiplication fact families. Our driver subject this half term is Geography where we will be identifying human and physical features. In music we will be learning about R n’ B and performing on glockenspiels and recorders. In Jigsaw we will continue to learn about ourselves and the world around us. In art and design we will be creating clay pots, like the Beaker people did in the Stone Age. In art we will be exploring colour and mood by studying famous artists and trying to replicate their pallet using water colours.
Spring 1:
This half term we will be studying Stone Age Boy, a fictional story written by Satoshi Kitamura. Pupils will continue to immerse themselves in new, rich vocabulary, develop their sentence structure as well as working on their editing skills. The unit will conclude with them writing a story from the point of view of one of the characters.
In Maths we will continue exploring, addition and subtraction, using concrete, pictorial and abstract methods. We will then go on to explore multiplication and division. We will continue with our daily fluency sessions revising our knowledge on the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times table and begin to learn our 4 times table as well.
In Science we will be studying the properties of rocks and soils, before moving on to learning about forces and magnets. We will further build on our knowledge of rocks and soils in our geography unit, where we will be looking at the solids and rocks from our local environment. In computing we will be learning about sequencing sounds using coding skills.
In our Jigsaw sessions we will be thinking about dreams and goals. We will develop a greater understanding of what we want to achieve in the future and to recognise the obstacles which might hinder achievement and take steps to overcome them.
Spring 2:
This half term we will be studying Big Blue Whale, a fictional story written by Nicola Davies. Pupils will continue to immerse themselves in new, rich vocabulary, develop their sentence structure as well as working on their editing skills. The unit will conclude with them writing an information text.
In Maths we will learn about measure, fractions and mass and capacity. We will continue with our daily fluency sessions revising our knowledge on the 3,4,5, 8s and 11s and begin to learn our 6 times table as well.
Our Science topic for this half term is magnets and forces. We will continue to build on our knowledge of rocks and soils from our previous science unit for our main project focus in geography where we will be looking at the solids and rocks from our local environment.
In computing we will be learning about Data and information and the children will use their new knowledge to create their own branching databases.
As we near the Easter holidays Team 3 will be exploring what the festival of Easter represents about friendship, feelings and forgiveness within their RE lessons.
Our DT topic ‘making it move’ will give the children a chance to explore and experiment with making different mechanisms.
In PE they will have a chance to learn and refine their cricket and badminton skills.
Summer:
This half term in Team 3 we will be studying the text ‘Journey’ written by the author Aaron Becker. Throughout this unit, children will master skills such as using prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs to express time, place and cause. By the end of the unit the children will write a story based on a journey.
In Maths, the children will be learning about fractions and in particular they will be looking at denominators and numerators in fractions, comparing and ordering them, counting fractions on a number line and adding and subtracting fractions.
In science, the children will be learning about plants, building on their knowledge and learning from Team 2. The children will be learning about the parts of different flowering plants and comparing them, how water is transported in plants and how each part of a plant has a function. The children will learn this through investigations and experiments.
Our History driver project for this half term is ‘Emperors and Empires’. We will focus on The Roman Empire, focusing on Boudicca and their rebellion.
In art, we will focus on drawing and pointillism with a focus on landscapes. In RE they will be learning about how to care for our planet and in computing they will be creating media