Year Three Class Page
Year 3 Curriculum Overview
Teacher: Mrs Kirby and Miss Maggs
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Dahdouh
PPA Cover: Mrs Cairns
Welcome to Year Three
Mrs Kirby has been teaching for 20 years and this is her first year at the Rosary School. She leads Music, RSE/PSHE and the school Chaplaincy Team.
Miss Maggs has been teaching at the Rosary School for 7 years and will be in class teaching Thursdays and Fridays. She leads History and Design & Technology and will be working alongside Mrs Liber this academic year every Wednesday focusing on SEN as well as gaining her SENCo qualification.
Our School Day
To find out details of how the Y3 pupils spend their time, please take a look at the timeline of our school day. Important times to note are arrival time (8.40am) and registration (8.50am). It is important the children are at school and settled in time for the day to begin.
Curriculum Support
The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests. If you would like to know more about each individual subject please visit our Curriculum Page. Each term our class topic will link in to the curriculum in a way that brings the subjects to life for the children.
Summer Term Topic
Our Summer topic is called 'Tomb Raiders'. The children will be exploring the key question ‘What did the ancient Egyptians believe?’ We are going to be working on developing many key skills to help with our enquiry including identifying, interpretation, explaining and comparing and contrasting when exploring the ancient Egyptians and what was important to them in regards to their beliefs!
Summer Term Curriculum Newsletter
PE
Our PE days are on Tuesday and Friday. As the children are attending swimming lessons on Tuesday afternoons they must bring in their swimming kit every week and wear PE kit on Fridays. Please click here to find out PE kit requirements.
Forest School
We are very lucky to be able to offer regular Forest School sessions to all our classes at the Rosary School. Our grounds are perfect to help the children connect and engage with the outdoors, and learn through active and exciting tasks and challenges such as den building, making a fire or tools, and identifying insects and birds. Y3 Forest School sessions are every three weeks on Fridays. Children will need to wear Forest School kit to school on these days, details of which can be found along with the session timetable, as links from the Forest School page.
Reading & Book Change
The children are encouraged to read the books they choose at school regularly. It would be most helpful if you can take time to read with them every week (4 times a week minimum) and record your comments in their reading record. When they are familiar with the book they should change it for a new one. Our book change day is on Monday.
English & SPaG
This term the children will be exploring texts and media connected to Egyptians. These include 'The Egyptian Cinderella' by Shirley Climo and 'British Museum: Mummies Unwrapped' by Tom Froese.
Rainbow Spellings
Our Rainbow Spellings in each year group focus on 'tricky words' that are commonly misspelled or do not follow regular rules. These words are re-visited two years in a row and are tested regularly.
Maths
This term the children will be developing their number skills, including:
- Fractions
- Time
- Measurement- Length, Mass and Capacity
- Geometry- properties of shapes
- Statistics
Take a look at the Maths summary document below to help you understand what your child is learning.
Rainbow Maths
There is a National Curriculum requirement for children to know their times tables up to 12 x12 by the end of Year 4, at which point they take an online test. To support this objective, children from Y2 onwards take part in regular Rainbow Maths tests. Each new academic year they start on 'Red' and work their way up through Orange, Yellow and so on. The document below shows what is required for each colour.
Our Class Saint
Our class Saint is Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas (or Saint Nick as he is colloquially known) had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and this became the model for 'Santa Claus' or Father Christmas. In one version of his story, Saint Nicholas is said to have helped a poor family by dropping gifts down the chimney which fell in to the drying stockings left out by the daughters - hence the tradition of hanging stockings up on Christmas Eve. Saint Nicholas is still celebrated as a great gift-giver in several Western European countries.
Additional Curriculum Resources
For further resources to support your child across all subjects, please visit our Curriculum page which features links to many useful sites.