Welcome to Year 3!

2023-2024

Teachers: Mrs griffin, MR LEWIS AND MRS VALENTINE

TA: mr JOHNSON

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Welcome to the SPRING TERM 2024

This half term our topic explores the Ancient Egyptians. Our class text is ‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’ by Joe Todd-Stanton. We will also be reading many non-fiction texts around this subject.

We will be exploring measurement in maths including length, mass and volume. We will continue to work on our times tables developing recall of times tables 3, 4 and 8.

Our science will be focused on animals including humans. We will be looking at

• nutrition

• skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

Homework:

All children have been issued with a ‘Century’ login which will provide the children with individualised homework based on their needs in English and maths. Children should access this program at least once per week. Please speak to your class teacher if you require a further copy of any assistance.

Children should read every day, and practise their spellings regularly. Any work on times tables and improving handwriting will be very beneficial.

Spellings:

The children will be given a list of spellings to learn each Friday to be tested on the following Thursday.

PE days:

Takes place outdoors on Tuesday and indoors on Fridays.

READ, READ and more READING! 

10 Benefits of Reading

1. Children who read often and widely get better at it.

After all, practice makes perfect in almost everything humans do, and reading in no different.

2. Reading exercises our brain.

Reading is a much more complex task for the human brain rather than watching TV, for example. Reading strengthens brains connections and builds NEW connections.

3. Reading improves concentration.

Children have to sit still and quietly so that they can focus on the story when they are reading. If the read often, they will develop the skill to do this for longer.

4. Reading teaches children about the world around them.

Through reading a variety of books children learn about people, places, and events outside of their own experience. 

5. Reading improves vocabulary and language skills.

Children learn new words as they read. Subconsciously, they absorb information on how to structure sentences and how to use words and other language features effectively in their writing and speaking.

6. Reading develops a child's imagination.

As we read our brains translate the descriptions we read of people, places and things into pictures. While we are engaged in a story we are also imagining how a character is feeling. Young children then bring this knowledge into their everyday play.

7. Reading helps children to develop empathy.

As children develop they begin to imagine how they would feel in that situation.

8. Reading is a fun.

A book or an e-reader doesn't take up much space and is light to carry, so you take it anywhere so you can never be bored if you have a book in your bag.

9. Reading is a great way to spend time together.

Reading together on the sofa, bedtimes stories and visiting the library are just some ways of spending time together.

10. Children who read achieve better in school.

Reading promotes achievement in all subjects, not just English. Children who are good readers tend to achieve better across the curriculum.