Chestnut

Welcome to Chestnut

Year 3

Mrs Dunlop Miss Hollett

Our Year 3 Curriculum Overview

Spring term

English in Chestnut

This term we will be writing for a variety of purposes based on lots of different texts and experiences. We will be focusing on The Egyptian Cinderella story and comparing this with the traditional Cinderella story.

Reading in Chestnut

We will continue to use VIPERS as our whole class reading approach. This term we will be using the book The 13 story tree house as our class text.

Maths in Chestnut

This term we will be covering Multiplication and Division, Length and Perimeter, Fractions and Mass and Capacity.

Science in Chestnut

Rocks and soils

Foundation subjects in Chestnut

PE - Netball and Fundamental games skills

Art - How were pigments used to create Egyptian scrolls.

DT - What elements of a salad make them colourful and tasty.

PSHE - Being Me in my world

History - Ancient Egyptians

Geography - volcanoes

RE - How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim.

French - My family and animals

Homework

Weekly spellings from SpellingShed will be sent home on Mondays ready for a test on Fridays.

Times Tables Rock Stars should be used as much as possible to improve rapid recall of times tables, ready for the statutory assessment in year 4.

Optional homework is provided every half term to earn some extra house points! Work can be brought into school or submitted on Google Classroom. More information will be shared about this on Google Classroom.

KIRFS

This half term our focus is the 4 times table.

Enrichment and Learning Outside the Classroom

Chestnut have their Learning Outside the Classroom sessions every week on Wednesdays. Kits should be brought into school and stored in the forest school pigeonholes, ready for the session that day. The children should be prepared for the weather, and have long-sleeved tops and trousers at all times.

Chestnut will have a range of enrichment activities available including weekly Ukulele lessons.

Please use Google Classroom to view all other relevant information for Chestnut class.