to the Badger's Class Page!
Hello and welcome to Year 3! We are Badgers, known for being hardworking and loyal!
Please take note of our school times. The school day begins at 08:45 (this is when the register will be completed) the gate will be open from 08:35 and will close at 08:40. The school day will finish at 15:15. Also with our daily assembly, on a Friday you may be invited in if your child has got special envelope or writer of the week so please look out for this on your emails but also please don't tell them as it is a lovely surprise.
We are all here to help you:
Meet the Staff
Miss J Whitehead - Year Three class teacher
Mrs Z Hussain - Teaching Assistant/HLTA
Miss K Harding - Teaching Assistant
Please click on the link below to access our class timetable for Autumn 2 so that you can see what is happening each day:
Here is our topic overview for this half term:
P.E.
P.E. this half term is on a Wednesday afternoon (Multi Skills) and on a Thursday afternoon (Athletics). Please ensure that your child comes to school in their PE kit on Wednesdays and Thursdays and that earrings have been removed in advance.
Homework
Maths Homework:
It is ESSENTIAL that your child fluently knows their times tables both division facts and multiplication and have quick recall on these. Therefore, Maths homework will be sent home weekly on a Wednesday and will be due in for the Friday of the same week.
Reading: 
Reading as much as possible will really help your child’s progress at school. Please ensure that your child reads at home at least three times each week you need to record reads on the Boom Reader App.
Literacy
Please look at the literacy non-negotiables to see what is expected in Year 3.
This half term we are focussing on: newspaper articles, story writing, setting descriptions and shape poetry.
We will be focussing on these texts:
Our SPAG sessions will focus on: punctuating direct speech, was and were, full stops and editing.
Our spelling focus, is the Year 3/4 statutory spellings. We will be doing an investigation on different spelling rules every two weeks and finding words with the same phoneme and graphemes as our spellings. We will also be having daily spelling tasks every two weeks, focussing on different skills.
Maths
Please look at the maths non-negotiables to see what is expected in Year 3.
This half term the children will be focussing on money and time.
We will be focussing on the following skills:
- Converting pounds and pence
- Adding and subtracting money
- Finding change
- Roman numerals to 12
- Telling the time to 5 minute and a minute
- Reading time on a digital clock
- Using am and pm
- Years, months, days and hours
- Using start and end times to find hours and minutes
- Using durations to find hours and minutes
- Minutes and seconds
- Units of time
- Solving problems with time
Our topic for this term is What Makes the Earth Angry?
Our Topic work will, link closely to our Literacy work. We are focussing on natural disasters such as volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes and tsunamis and how they are formed and affect lives. Each week we will be exploring a key question which will develop our History and Geography skills:
Week 1: How are volcanoes formed?
Week 2: How can volcanoes affect people's lives?
Week 3: How are earthquakes made? How can we measure them?
Week 4: What is a tsunami? How do they affect people's lives?
Week 5: How do tornadoes occur? What effects do they have?
Please see our knowledge organiser for key vocabulary and knowledge the children will be learning this half term.
We also have topic homework that should be completed in the purple homework books and we will have a show and tell on the last day of term to show what we have done.
Awards 2023-2024
We are very excited to be starting work on our new values system when we come back in school in January. Each week we have a new value – 12 in total. The children will have an assembly Monday morning about how to show our care values both in school and at home! We will be expecting this to be demonstrated to all members of our Coppice community, it is important that even when we move onto a new value, the old one isn’t lost.
Our new core values will now form the basis of our ambassador passports (these have now been renamed – core value passports and the children can achieve their bronze, silver and gold awards throughout the year for each core value. We will of course keep you informed about how your child is getting on with this throughout the year.
Each week Mrs Seaton will send out a Newsletter that will reflect the value we are working on so that it can also be supported at home. We look forward to seeing our children bright and early ready to embrace the new weekly challenges
Monday 24th February- INSET Day
Tuesday 25th February- Back to school!
Wednesday 5th March- Parents Evening
Wednesday 5th March- Heanor Library Visit
Thursday 6th March- World Book Day Dress Up
Tuesday 11th-Friday 14th March- Book Fair
Tuesday 11th March- Parents Evening
Friday 4th April- Last Day of Term