“Learn, Sparkle and Shine”

Curriculum guidance for Year 3

Parents.

Summer term

Unlocking your child’s potential!

Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers,

The information within our leaflet has been put together by our teaching staff. Research

tells us that children who are supported with their education at home and read regularly

do better at school than children who do not!

Please use this curriculum information document as a guide to what your child should be

doing regularly to ensure they are becoming a confident learner.

Reading ; During Year 3 children should be able to:

read for at least 15 minutes each night to an adult & read short novels with

increasing independence & enjoyment;

listen to adults reading stories or chapters of the books to them;

are able to answer questions about the main characters and the setting;

have a Reading Age of above 8 years;

talk about why they like or dislike a book;

begin to identify favourite authors and read more books written by the author;

read and talk about more complex/ technical words to extend their own

understanding and vocabulary;

are able to find information using the contents page and index in a non-fiction

book;

read a whole range and variety of texts – newspapers, magazines, information

books, poetry books and so on;

read for sustained period of time in an environment that is comfortable and with

few distractions;

By the end of Year 3 children will be reading more fluently and competently, reading a

range of books for pleasure and interest. Children should have a clearly established

reading routine.

Writing ; During Year 3 children should be able to:

plan main points as a structure for story writing and plan and write own myths, fables and alternative versions of traditional tales

write shape and performance poems and poetry that uses sounds to create affects

e.g. onomatopoeia, alliteration and distinctive rhythms

write non-chronological reports from known information recipes, letters and

messages and experiment with recounting events in a variety of ways

develop the use of settings in their own stories

write simple play scripts based on reading and oral work begin to use a range of punctuation

use self, peer group and whole class editing to develop and improve writing

through the use of vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation.

Develop a neat, cursive handwriting style, which can be applied throughout all

areas of the curriculum.

Spelling; Your child is now expected to know a set of words by the end of a

two year phase. Therefore if your child is in Year Three they have until the

end of Year Four to know the key words. To help you and your child we have

listed the words that the children must know by the end of Year 4.

Year Three and Four Key Word Spelling list

accident(ally)

actual(ly)

address

answer

appear

arrive

believe

bicycle

breath

breathe

build

busy/business

calendar

caught

centre

century

certain

circle

complete

consider

continue

decide

describe

different

difficult

disappear

early

earth

eight/eighth

enough

exercise

experience

experiment

extreme

famous

favourite

February

forward(s)

fruit

grammar

group

guard

guide

heard

heart

height

history

imagine

increase

important

interest

island

knowledge

learn

length

library

material

medicine

mention

minute

natural

naughty

notice

occasion(ally)

often

opposite

ordinary

particular

peculiar

perhaps

popular

position

possess(ion)

possible

potatoes

pressure

probably

promise

purpose

quarter

question

recent

regular

reign

remember

sentence

separate

special

straight

strange

strength

suppose

surprise

therefore

though/although

thought

through

various

weight

woman/women

Reading Challenge!

This year we are having a reading challenge throughout school! Each year group has a

set of 15 books that we are asking the children to read across the school year. As they

achieve 5 books, then 10 and finally 15 books there will be rewards and treats for this! All

the books are available in school so look out for your children bringing one home!

Summer 1 Summer 2

Topic: What did the Ancient Egyptians achieve?

Science: Light

Topic: What did the Ancient Egyptians achieve?

Science: plants

Novel: (3 weeks)

Egyptian Cinderella

World/Topical theme: (2 weeks)energy saving

Visual literacy: (2 week) Tadeo Jones- literacy shed.

Novel: (2 weeks-)There’s a Pharaoh in my bath- Jeremy Strong.

World/Topical theme: (2 weeks) Respect for nature- plants and living

things.

Poetry: (1 week) verse poetry about Egyptian gods.

Genres to be taught:

Fiction: narrative. Traditional tale or alternative traditional

tale

Non fiction: information leaflet about being

environmentally friendly- saving energy.

Fiction- narrative adventure story using Tadao Jones

Genres to be taught:

Fiction- narrative- adventure linked to Tadeo Jones

non fiction- explanation text. How were the pyramids built?

Non fiction- explanation text. How to mummify a body (with reasons and

process not instructional).

Cross curricular genres to be recapped from previous

term:

Science- letter to Eco team about what could be done to

save energy

Topic- non chronological report about the importance of

the River Nile.

RE: A factual report about a person who has changed

lives.

Cross curricular genres to be recapped from previous term:

Topic- diary entry of an archaeologist about pyramids and what he found

out.

Science- Report findings after investigations eg, cutting off leaves etc.

RE: report about the a Hindu god or goddess.

Notes:

Year groups can alternate the half terms so that the texts can be shared. Request a class set from SLS for a full term.

Novels and themes chosen should link purposefully to the history or geography, science or RE topics being taught in the same term.

Measures – base line questions

Year 3

We ask the children to learn key measures facts at home that are linked to their maths

work in school. These are called Mega Measures and we test the children on these each

half term. By the end of Year 3 the children should know all of these facts as they are so

helpful for their work and life skills.

Q

1 How many ml in 1L? 1000ml=1l 2 How many ml in ½ L? 500ml = ½ l 3 How many ml in 2L? 2000ml = 2L 4 How many mm in 1 cm? 10mm = 1cm 5 How many cm in 1m? 100cm = 1m 6 How many cm in 4m? 400cm = 4m 7 How many cm in ½ m? 50cm = ½ m 8 How many cm in ¼ m? 25cm = ¼ m 9 How many m in 1km? 1000m = 1km

10 How many m in ½ km? 500m = ½ km 11 How many m in ¼ km? 250m = ¼ km 12 How many g in 1 kg? 1000g = 1kg 13 How many g in 3kg? 3000g = 3kg 14 How many g in ½ kg? 500g in ½ kg 15 How many kg in 1T? 1000kg = 1t 16 How many seconds make 1 min?

60 seconds = 1 minute 17 How many minutes in 1 hour?

60 minutes = 1 hour 18 How many hours make 1 day?

24 hours = 1 day 19 How many days make 1 week?

7 days = 1 week 20 How many months make 1 year?

12 months = 1 year

MFL

Unit 1.3

Grammar/Skills Vocabulary

Social conventions

Ask and answer questions

First notations of Gender

Cognates

Class room objects

une trousse, un stylo, une règle, un

crayon, un cahier, un livre, un sac, une

gomme

Colours

Rouge, rose, bleu, jaune,

marron,orange

Giving your age

J’ai … ans

Classroom instructions

Écoutez, regardez, lisez, asseyez-vous,

levez-vous, écrivez, chantez

Music

The Dragon Song

This is a song about kindness,

respect, friendship, acceptance

and happiness.

Bringing us Together

This is a disco song about friendship,

peace, hope and unity.

G

Crotchet, minims

C

Minims, Minim rests

Computing

Summer 1

3 weeks

Summer 1/Summer 2

Information Technology with

elements of DL

For KS2 Reference – BBC

Computing

Greater Depth Project:

Digital Literacy / Computer Science /

STEM

Use as many different platforms as

possible and perform basic tasks

(search the internet, input devices,

saving work) look at similarities and

differences.

School email or purple mash 2email

(talk about other ways to

communicate)

How email works

https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips

/zqsg4wx

Email - Purplemash Unit3.5

PurpleMash

2 publish / 2 create a story / 2animate

Photostory

Book Creator, Garage band, iMovie

apps

Possible Project:

Keep fit video

Animation, Stop motion animation

Appropriate SICT’s STEM project loan

box

Other information

for this term

Weekly spellings can be found on the sheet in the front of your child’s

reading record book.

The weekly spellings test will be on a Friday in Y3G and in Y3B.

The weekly times tables test will also be on a Friday in Y3G and Y3B.

When there is a change to when the weekly spelling and times tables tests

will be given, due to time table changes or in school events, we will let the

children know.

Times tables and spellings will be given out as homework. Other additional

tasks may be sent home to give children more practise in particular areas

of numeracy if needed.

Please write your child’s name in their school clothing so that they don’t go

missing and children can quickly recognise whether an item belongs to

them or not.

Please remember to bring snack and juice money each day!