Year 3
Summer First Half Term - Information to Parents
Literacy:
What we will be covering:
What we will be targeting:
What you might like to do at home:
AUTHOR STUDY (Roald Dahl)
This author focus unit provides opportunities for pupils to explore in more
depth the work of a chosen author.
Curricular aims of this unit:
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To read and discuss a selection of stories written by a particular
author. Talk about the different books, themes and preferences
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To make comparisons between books and their characters, settings
and plot lines
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To make predictions, inferences and deductions when reading and
explore the vocabulary used for effect
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To explore social, cultural and historical contexts of the stories
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To watch/listen to different stories. Talk about similarities and
differences
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To read a variety of the author’s texts in shared, guided and
independent reading with increasing independence and fluency
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To discuss issues and dilemmas arising and offer views and
opinions
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To use reading as a basis for writing in a wide range of genres both
fiction and non-fiction
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Using speech marks for words spoken by a character and using the
punctuation associated with speech marks.
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Encourage your child to read regularly.
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Encourage your child to talk about what they have read e.g.
characters, main ideas
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Identify the use of speech marks in reading books
Numeracy:
What we will be covering:
Number (estimating and ordering), time, addition and subtraction, money,
multiplication and division and measures.
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What we will be targeting:
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What you might like to do at home:
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To estimate the position of numbers on a blank number line.
To solve problems using the expanded written methods for
addition and subtraction.
To solve a range of problems involving money, including calculating
change.
To know the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 X table and to know related division
facts.
To begin to add fractions with the same denominator.
To develop their understanding of equivalent fractions.
To tell the time on an analogue and digital clock, to the nearest
minute.
Developing their understanding further of the written methods we
have used so far with the four rules of number.
Adding fractions and finding fractions of quantities.
Practise X tables with the children – please practise the flashcards
regularly, it really does make a difference.
Reading scales and measuring different things, using a tape
measure.
Continue the work in telling the time. When they are confident,
begin to ask them so solve problems involving time. E.g. if football
starts at 10:15 and lasts for 30 minutes, what time will it
finish?…etc.
Science:
What we will be covering:
What you might like to do at home:
PLANTS
 To identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering
plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers I can explore the
requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients
from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
 To investigate the way in which water is transported within plants
 To explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants,
including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.
Grow some seeds with the children and make observations.
Theme Learning (Art, Design and Technology, History, Geography):
What we will be covering:
This term our theme is Extreme Survival HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND CITIZENSHIP
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Pupils will use a range of geographical skills to help them
investigate extreme places and environments and consider how
animals and communities adapt to these environments
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Pupils will select and use appropriate skills and ways of presenting
information to help them investigate places and environments.
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They will describe physical and human characteristics of places by
referring to regions, countries and continents and consider how
similarities and differences in environments affect the lives of
people who live there.
ART AND DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
Art : Pupils will identify how mixing colours can convey the mood and
atmosphere of different places when painting or creating collages.
DT: Pupils will show they are aware of constraints when designing and
building models and shelters and reflect on how they can adapt their design
to solve technical problems.
What you might like to do at home:
Other Areas of the Curriculum:
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Research environments with extreme weather conditions
P.E – We will be covering swimming and athletics
R.E/P.S.H.E – We will be exploring ideas around ‘truthfulness’
Weekly Homework:
Numeracy – We will be asking the children to practise multiplication facts each week. These will be sent home on
flashcards. Once the children are confident we will be moving them onto division facts. The children will be tested in school
on a Monday or a Tuesday afternoon. It is really important for the children to learn these; it will help their understanding
of MANY other mathematical concepts.
Literacy - We will set homework every Friday. This will need to be handed in by the following Friday.