Year 3
Assalamu’alaikum and Welcome to all new children and parents for this academic year!
Welcome to Year 3 – Saturn Class
Assalamu alaikum and welcome to all…
I hope you all had a restful break and are ready for the new year. We have a lot of exciting topics to cover during Autumn 1 and lots of hard work.
I am looking forward to working with you and your child.
This page will be updated regularly to inform you of what we are getting up to in Year 3!
What we are learning this Year/Term
English
The book Tin Forest has a sequence to focus on characters thoughts and feelings. Children will be writing character descriptions, diary entries, poetry and additional endings to the story. The sequence also focuses on setting descriptions ranging from creating a setting linked to the story and writing descriptions focusing on use of adjectives. The grammar focus will be using ‘a’ and ‘an’ correctly and consistently organizing writing into paragraphs.
Maths
This half term we will be focusing on place value, addition and subtraction of 3 digit numbers. Children will build a solid understanding of place value and this will help them with solving real life problems. Children will explore a variety of strategies for adding and subtracting larger numbers.
Science
We will be exploring light investigating which material would be best to make a shadow puppet. We will explore which materials block the most light. We will also investigate how shadows change shape and size.
Computing
The importance of E-Safety we will also introduce the use of coding.
P.E.
P.E. will be every Tuesday afternoon.
P.S.H.E
Our unit this term is New beginnings as children start a new school year thinking about the importance of belonging and their learning goals for the year.
Art
We will be looking at the famous artist LS Lowry and painting some of his amazing art work. We will also look at block printing.
Year 3 Staff
Hello I am Ustadha Medina Lister I am the Year 3 Teacher. This is my fourth year teaching at Iqra and my third year in Year 3. My TA is Ustadha Aniqa Haque and this is her second year at Iqra.
Ust Haque is the teaching assistant for year 3 and knows all of the children very well, supporting them in all aspects of their learning and Ust Lister so many ways too.
Ust Shelton works in year 3 to support one particular pupil. This is her first year at Iqra.
Latest Year 3 News
Who needs pens?
We took part in 'No Pens Wednesday' on 3rd October. We had a lot of fun completing all of our learning that day without so much as even picking up a pen, let alone doing any writing! We think it should be No Pens Wednesday every week! The creation of the pen has...
The History Man comes to school
Year 3 had a visit from the history man. He spent the morning in our class, sharing with us the tools and materials that stone age peoples used to use to make homes and things they needed to use such as clothing and tools. It was a great session that really enthused...
How You Can Help
- Please listen to and read with your child as often as possible.
- Please help children to learn their spellings each week. Spelling tests will be on a Monday.
- In Year 3 we will move quite quickly through the times tables so please support your child throughout the year to learn, memorise the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 8s, 10s times tables.
- Please ensure your child brings in their homework and reading record weekly.
Reminders
Homework will be given out on Friday and will be expected in on Tuesday. Your child may receive:
- Spellings
- Mental Math’s/timetables
- English
- Maths
- Handwriting
Homework will consolidate work taught in class over the week.
Can you please make sure that you are signing the reading diaries.
Library visit and changing books will be on a Wednesday.
This half term we will be visited in school by the History man who will be delivering an interactive workshop on Prehistoric Britain focusing on the Iron age and the Stone age.
- History—Prehistoric Britain
- ICT— E-Safety and Coding
- English— The tin forest
- Maths— Place value and Addition and Subtraction
- Science— Light and Shadows
- Art—Famous Artist LS Lowry
If there is something on our class page that you would like to see feel free to let me know.
Ust Lister
