Prospero (Year 3)
Welcome to Year 3!
Teachers: Mr Parkin and Mrs Singh
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Phillips
Email: rspprospero@southbankprimary.co.uk
Contact number: 01642 453451
Please be aware that contact may be made outside of teaching hours.
We have an exciting year ahead of us with some great topics to catch the children's interest! Your child's love of learning is going to grow over the year and they will take part in a variety of exciting learning opportunities, including: educational visits, internal visitors and learning outdoors.
Autumn Term Learning
Spring learning
Summer learning
In English we will start by learning about the features of a persuasive advert. We will then be using our knowledge gained in topic to write our own persuasive adverts to explain why bees are important and then persuade the audience to protect them. We will then be finished off the year by recapping the features of a non-chronological report and pulling all of our learning together to create a fact file all about different types of bees.
In Maths, we will be looking at:
- Time - reading the time to 5 minutes, reading the time to 1 minute, durations and comparing them and measuring seconds and minutes.
- Shape and angles - clockwise and anticlockwise turns, right angles in shapes, comparing angles, horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular lines, 2D shapes and 3D shapes.
In Science, the children will be learning all about human bodies. We will be investigating the purpose of our skeletons and learning what bones humans have We will then be looking at muscles and how they work to help us move. Finally, we will be learning about nutrition and healthy diets.
In Music we will listen to and appraise a song called 'Bringing us together'. We will be learning to sing and perform our song, play glockenspiels along to the song in different parts, improvise our own melodies and compose our own melodies.
In Geography we will be learning all about the conservation of bees. We will be learning all about why bees are so important to the world and what they do to us, what problems bees are facing and what is causing their numbers to dwindle, how we can improve our local area to be more beneficial for bees and creating our own bee hotels.
In Computing we will be learning all about simulations. We will be looking at what they are, what advantages and disadvantages they have, then appraising and improving simulations.
In French we will be learning how to count to 20.
In RE we will be exploring what Hindus believe about God, how and why do Hindus worship at home and in the Mandir, and why Advent is important to Christians.
In PE we are going to be developing our skills in golf with the help of our golf coach. Then we will be learning the skills needed to play netball and what rules we need to follow to be succesful.
In our school we explore our rights across all areas of our school through our learning and social times. We make links in our lessons and explain why or how they relate to a certain right.
We also have a ‘Right of the Half Term’. This is where we dedicate time in our week to explore a specific right in detail.
This half term, our focus is Article 12 - children who break the law.
Important information and reminders:
Main class - PE and Library is on Thursdays.
Satellite class - PE is on Thursdays and library day is on Tuesdays.
- Reading books will be changed on a library day please ensure that your child has their book bag in school on this day. Your child will be given a ‘reading for pleasure’ book to take home and a phonics book suited to their level if they continue to access phonics. Also, please make sure to sign your child's reading record each time you read with them!
- On PE days, children will be getting changed into their school PE kit at school so should come to school in their normal school uniform. Also, please make sure they are wearing appropriate footwear.
Key dates for Summer term
- 5th May - Bank holiday
- 26th May - Start of May half term
- 2nd June - First day back after half term
- 16th June - Staff PD day, children not in school
- 30th June - Start of sports week
- 10th July - Colour run
- 16th and 17th July - Transition days in new classes
- 18th July - Last day of term, Y3 and Y4 talent show, family picnic