The teachers in Year 3 are Mr Benney, Miss Goldman and Mrs Ryall. 

Miss James and Mrs Rafferty also work in Year 3.

What are we learning?

Autumn

This term, our Mantle team are Rock Hounds searching for special rocks and even those from the Stone Age. 

This is some of our learning along the way...

Reading

We read in class every day.

We do whole class reading practising all our decoding and understanding skills, as well as exploring books at other times such as to assist our writing and Mantle work.

We use " Fred's Reading" resources which link to a wealth of quality extracts so that we read and learn from a wide range of texts. 

For instance: 

The children read to adults in class and those who still need to develop their fluency and phonic skills read in small groups.

They will also have the chance to read their school library books, look at books linked to our Mantle work and change their library books regularly. 

Every day we have story time with the teacher reading to the children. 

Some children will have extra reading opportunities to develop their reading skills. 

Writing

In Year 3, we continue to develop our independence in writing and become more accurate with our spelling, grammar and punctuation. We write for a wide range of purposes, including within our Mantle and other work; we write to entertain, inform and persuade as described by Michael Tidd on his website.

We use "The Write Stuff" to learn how to stack sentences into meaningful paragraphs in narrative, story and poetry writing. We use the same approach to learn how to organise our writing to produce non fiction texts about what we are learning - for instance a report about earthquakes. 

We work on our spellings every week using Spelling Shed. 

We have a new programme for handwriting called Kinetic Letters where the children are improving their letter formation with the help of Brave and Scared Monkeys. During the summer term Year 3 will start the joining programme.  

Maths

In Key Stage 2 we use the White Rose Hub Maths plans. We follow a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to learning in Maths.

Children work on times tables everyday and should practise regularly at home, too. 

We do a daily times tables quiz and also enjoy using TT Rockstars to get better and better! They can use this at home as well.

Science 

Sometimes our science learning learning is part of our Mantle story and sometimes we just do science! Whichever way, we always do lots of working scientifically - testing our ideas, making observations and measurements and trying to find patterns and explanations. 

These are the National curriculum areas of study we focus on:

MUSIC

We use Kapow for our Music in class, which covers a wide range of musical experiences including pentatonic scales, traditional instruments, singing and improvisation. We also get to develop our singing skills with Miss Capron-Tee and learn to play the recorder. Mantle offers additional musical opportunities. 

RE

We follow the Worcestershire Agreed Syllabus for RE. 

RSE

We follow the PSHE Association Programme Builder plan to structure our teaching in this area. We use the resources recommended in the plans such as Discovery Education and NSPCC Share Aware. 

Computing and Online Safety

We are working towards becoming a verified National Online Safety school. We follow their plans to teach online safety. We are also continually updating our training in this area through the "Teach Computing" programme and using their plans.