Welcome to Year 3

Class Teachers: Mrs Magee (Mon-Wed) and Mrs Cruchley (Thurs, Fri)

Teaching assistants: Mrs Phillips and Mrs Sale

Class Governor: Ms Francis

PTFA link: Mrs Dhir and Mrs Hurst

Key information

Homework is sent out on a Friday to be handed in by the following Thursday at 9am.

Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of the half term. Spelling tests take place on a Friday.

Please make sure your child has a named PE kit, water bottle, reading book and message book in school every day. 

This half term we are learning...

‘Who inspires us?'

This half term we will be learning about a famous architect, composer and artist. We will explore their lives and look at timelines. We will also try to recreate some of their work!

Click on the picture above to learn more about the inspirational people we will be learning about.

Key Vocabulary:

City, county, maps, atlases, Worcester, Worcestershire, Malvern, Europe, Switzerland, Iraq

design, purpose, research, evaluate, architect, buildings, 2d shapes, 3d shapes, castle, design criteria, evaluate, façade, feature, flag, net, recyclable, scoring, stable, strong, structure, tab, weak

sketchbook, observation, scribble, shade, cross hatch, dot, dash, circle, spiral, pressure, lines, Klee, style

time line, BC-before Christ, AD-Anno Domini, past/present, before/after, century/decade, chronological order, period

In science, we are learning about 'Plant Reproduction'

Across the term we will be

• Identifying what plants need to grow healthily.
• Describing the structure and function of the parts of flowering plants.
• Investigating how plants transport water.
• Describing the life cycle of a flowering plant.
• Explaining seed dispersal methods.
• Posing relevant questions.
• Designing and recording in results tables.
• Planning a simple enquiry.
• Completing, reading and interpreting data in a bar chart.
• Identifying and suggesting changes to an enquiry.
• Using results to draw conclusions

Our Class Author is Roald Dahl

Some of his books include: