Year 3 - Curriculum

Dear Parents,

Below you will find the curriculum your child will be covering this Autumn term (2024).  Not all subjects are taught each term but are covered throughout the year. As a result of this planner, you may be able to discuss the areas with your child or do research together.

Autumn Term

RE	Belonging in God’s Family - Looking at the different groups we belong to, exploring the Sacrament of Baptism and seeing how Catholics celebrate belonging to God’s family through Mass. Reconciliation - Exploring human choices, the consequence of sin and Christ’s teaching on forgiveness and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Advent - Looking at the Bible stories of the Annunciation and the Visitation. How Mary prepared for the coming of Jesus and how we should use Advent as a time to prepare ourselves for Christ being welcomed into the world.
Literacy	Observation Poetry Persuasive writing Non-chronological reports Adventure Stories Instructions
Numeracy	Place Value – Reading and writing numbers and numerals up to 1000, recognise the value of each digit in a three digit number. The children will also be finding 10 and 100 more or less than a given number. Addition and Subtraction – Adding and subtracting numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction. The children will be adding and subtracting numbers mentally including three digits and ones, three digits and tens and three digits and hundreds. Multiplication (including the 3, 4 and 8 times tables) and division - Recall and use multiplication and division facts for 3, 4, and 8 times tables.
Science	The Human Body: Children will learn about voluntary and involuntary muscles and their purpose. They will learn that some muscles, like our heart, move without us consciously thinking about it, but other muscles require us to command them to move. Moving forward with their understanding, children will look in more detail at the skeletal system, building on prior knowledge and elaborating through studying names of bones, joints and their function. Plants: Children will learn about cycles in nature. They will study patterns, trends and cycles that occur throughout the seasons, in the life of plants and in the life of animals. Children will understand that the tilt of the earth creates our seasons. They will look closely and observe changes in the seasons in their own environment. Children will think scientifically about the changes to plants through the seasons, how the increased hours of sunshine in the summer help plants to gain the necessary energy to grow bigger.
PE	Gymnastics  Dance
Thematic Curriculum (includes: History, Geography, ICT, Music, Art, D+T and PSHE)	History: Law and power War of the Roses Geography: Spatial sense and local geography Western Europe Art: Line Still Life RHE: Getting to know each other Families DT: Sewing
Homework	Maths missions Reading Spelling Sacramental Preparation Homework is given out on a Friday and should be handed in on Friday.
Spellings	Spellings are given out on Monday and tested on Friday.

 

Year 3 Class Blog

23rd Jun

Hello and welcome to year 3’s Twitter takeover!

Well done children for leading a lovely thanksgiving Mass this morning. Thank you to our families and friends for supporting us.

 

We have had a fantastic afternoon celebrating our First Holy Communion. We showed off our dance moves!

 

We have been learning about the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. We created our own models inspired by the Sagria familia.

 

We had so much fun completing our final fitness assessment during our Wow Active session.

 

We have been solving problems about time in maths. We love a maths challenge!

 

In PRE, we have been discussing the importance of healthy living.

Thank you for joining us today. See you soon!

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27th Apr

Hello everyone Year 3 have had a wonderful week and we are so excited to share what we have done with you all!!

In English this week we have been innovating the story of the Three Little Pigs, we have written the True Story of the Three Little Pigs.

 

In PRE this week we finished our unit about Dreams and Goals. We discussed the job we would like to do when we are older and the skills we need for that job.

 

In Maths we have started to learn about money and to help us understand money in context we had a special visitor from HSBC bank. Anne taught us how to spend our money wisely and how to plan a party.

 

Year 3 were very proud that St Joseph’s won the 2023 Smart Money Award!! What a great week it has been.

 

 

9th Feb

Hello! Welcome to year 3’s Twitter takeover. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been doing in class.

We have had lots of fun in P.E on the apparatus. We have been working on balancing and controlling our bodies.

 

We have been praying for the people of Turkey and Syria during this hard time. We have also been praying for anyone who has been impacted by this devastating disaster. We asked God to give people strength at this time.

 

We have been so busy in computing. We have been using PowerPoint to create slides.

 

We welcomed a lovely visitor from the RSCPA into our class. We explored the importance of recycling and how materials have an impact on the environment.

 

Thank you for joining us for our takeover! Year 2 will be here next week to show you their learning. 😄😄😄

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1st Dec

Welcome to year 3 ‘Twitter takeover’. We can’t wait to tell you what we have been doing in school 😀

We have been enjoying our hands on maths sessions, helping each other to solve problems! 📏🧮

 

We love our creative writing, trying to be as descriptive as possible, self editing with our purple pen; we work hard on our wonderful handwriting too!📝🖋

 

We loved multicultural week, learning about other cultures and faiths and getting the chance to be creative

 

In our PSHE sessions it was great to celebrate each other. We had different partners and we shared gifts from God and talents we all have and love about each other ❤️

 

We are having great fun in our woodland adventure sessions this half term. We love making things and exploring the outdoor! 🧤🌎

 

We have welcomed the season of Advent in our classroom. A time to prepare for Christmas and the birth of Jesus. We got excited when we finally seen the Christmas tree in school!

We hope you enjoyed a sneaky peak into year 3. See you soon! 👐😊

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Welcome to the year 3 ‘Class Blog’! We hope you enjoy a sneaky peak into our school day

We started our day with our guided reading session, followed by our English lesson exploring persuasive writing looking at the ‘dragon catcher’. We are proud of our hard work with our writing and presentation of handwriting!

We created art work linked to our persuasive writing. We love being creative and I hope you agree, we are a VERY talented and artistic class!

Our class saint this year is St Vincent de Paul. We picked him because of the compassion and humility he showed to others. We will offer prayers to him each day and hope he guides us this year. We researched and wrote fact files along with some more art dedicated to him

Finally, we had a great session during PE learning to rules to a new ball game called tchoukball (fun to play, hard to spell!). We loved it! Cant wait to learn more about this game in our next session