Welcome to Autumn Term for  Team Venus

Maths 

Maths: In Maths, year 3 children will be learning about place value within 1,000 numbers. We will also be learning addition and subtraction across 100. We will learn about multiplication and division – focusing on the 3,4 and 8 timestable.To further support our learning in maths, we will also complete core skills tasks each week which will include consolidation and pre-teaching of maths concepts. We will also be taking part in daily arithmetic challenges (Tough Ten). 

English

In English, we will continue to build on our prior grammatical knowledge by using expanded noun phrases for description, subordinate
clauses, propositions to express time, place and cause, inverted commas for direct speech and grouping related ideas into paragraphs. 
We will be applying our skills on work based on these 2 quality texts: Coming to England by Floella Benjamin and Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura 

Learning Adventure

Projects 

Was there an art to living for the first people?
This term, we will be exploring the question was there an art to living for the first people. This question will encompass all areas of our learning. 
In History, we will be learning about the Stone Age. We will delve into the three different periods of the Stone Age and how farming and 
inventions impacted people of the stone age. This learning project will also encompass Art in which we will be using charcoal and a range of 
tools the stone age people would have utilized to recreate cave paintings. We will also be using our culinary skills to design and create 
a Stone Age Stew incorporating a variety of vegetables that will have been utilized during the Stone Age. 

In our science project, we will be focusing on two areas – Living things and Light.

Living Things
We will be exploring how living things can be grouped in a variety of ways and identify living things in their local and wider environment. 
Starting with how the first people may have looked at animals: predator, prey and plants. We will continue this on by looking at 
different classifications of animals today. Further to this, we will be exploring how environments can change over time and this can 
sometimes pose dangers to living things. 


Light
We will be learning that dark is the absence of light, light is reflected off services and that light from the sun can be dangerous. Further to this, we will learn how shadows are formed and how they can change in size and why. We will learn how shadows were important to the art of story 
telling for the people of the Stone Age. 

PE

Our PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Fridays every week. Please can PE kits be in school and labelled with your child’s name.

Water bottles 

Please can all children bring in a labelled water bottle for them to use throughout their school day.

Homework

Homework will be set on Ed Shed, this will include spellings, maths and grammar. There are 3 parts to be completed every week.  Homework will be set on Fridays and needs to be returned by the following Wednesday. Your child has their own individual login for both Ed Shed and TTRS inside their planners, which are to be taken home and brought into school every day.  Homework is an essential part of their learning as it helps them consolidate learning and take responsibility to work independently.

Reading

Reading for pleasure is a crucial part of learning and development.  It helps spark your child’s imagination and develop essential literacy skills.  Please support your child to read their Accelerated Reader books for 20 minutes each day at home.  They can also read any other books, be they fiction or non-fiction. Planners will be checked weekly and I would encourage you and your child to write about they are reading.  It could be about what they are enjoying, what is happening or how it makes them feel.  Please sign their planners weekly.

Planners/ Messages

If you wish to deliver a message to me, please use the planner as a form of communication but make sure they remember to hand it to me that morning so as to guarantee I see the message.  As always, I encourage open lines of communication between school and home. If you have any questions or concerns throughout the term, please do not hesitate to contact me through the school’s administration team. Remember you can also check out our learing on Seesaw where you can see exactly what is happening in the classroom!  You can also use this as a way of communication.

Mrs Simpson

Thank you for all your support.