Y3L

Miss Lawne
Year 3 Teacher

Welcome to Year 3L!

Our teacher is Miss Lawne. We will be supported by Mrs Wignall.

We will be sharing lots of photographs of all our fabulous work on our Twitter class page. Follow us @HolyFamilyL8_3L

Homework is given out on a Monday and is due back by Friday. Our PE day is Tuesday so children must come in in their PE kits on this day.

This half term we will be covering:

RE

This half term, our topic is called Energy where we will explore the energy of fire and wind. We will reveal the wonder and power of the Holy Spirit

English

Our book this half term is called The Day the Whale Came by Michael Morpurgo. We will write a narrative recount based on this story and also a newspaper report. We will be focusing on our sentence structure and the overall effectiveness of our writing. Spellings we are focusing on will be sent home at the beginning of each week so it is important to learn these as well as going on Spelling Shed.

We will have daily spelling lessons and Guided Reading sessions to develop fluency and comprehension skills.

Maths

Throughout the year, we will be revisiting the times tables we learnt in KS1 and will be learning the 3, 4 and 8 times tables.

We will be continuing to work on measure this half term and measuring mass in kilograms and grams and capacity and volume in litres and millimetres. We will also learn to measure length and perimeter in millimetres, centimetres and metres. We will also deepen our understanding of money and learn to convert between pounds and pence. 

Science

Our science topic this half term is forces and magnets.

We will observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others. We will compare and group a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials. We will also predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.

History

Our history topic is all about Liverpool Docks. We will look at artefacts from a Victorian Docker’s suitcase, and discuss what they tell us about the past. We will learn about the early years of the Liverpool Docks and how they expanded quickly to become a key point of global trade.  We will look at what life would have been like as a Victorian Docker and compare life for poor and rich Scousers, including evaluating the evidence that they leave behind. We will develop a chronological understanding of what happened at the docks in the past 300 years. We will then look at how the Docks fell into disrepair but were regenerated in the late 1980s to create the Docks that they are currently familiar with.  

DT/ART

This half term, we will be appraising the work of Banksy, both graffiti and sculptures. We will be observing his use of symbolism and using this within our artwork. We will also look at how he uses Digital Media to publicise his artwork. We will be developing our modelling skills through the experimentation of different ways to shape, and to create tone and texture in clay. We will then be designing and creating a sculpture in the style of Banksy. Finally, we will photograph and digitally edit these images.

Computing 

Our topic this half term is called Get Blogging. We will learn how the internet works and how the internet is used for communication. We will also develop an understanding of how blogs work and will create our own blog using Class Dojo.

PE

This half term, we will be continuing to develop our basketball skills with Mersey Mavericks. Our PE day is on a Tuesday this half term so it is important children come into school in their PE uniform on this day.

PSHE

Relationships  – In this theme children will explore the times when they have felt guilty or hurt someone, particularly someone close to them, and begin to explore how they might make amends. Through story they will look at some conflicts of interest. In relation to work on the feeling ‘guilty’, children further develop their understanding of responsibility, and have opportunities to differentiate between situations in which guilt may be felt inappropriately and those where guilt is an appropriate and helpful emotion that can lead to restorative action.

Music

We will continue with our ukulele sessions this half term. We are developing our understanding of different chords and be able to change chords with increased confidence and fluency.

Spanish

In our Spanish lessons, we will develop our understanding of numbers from 1 to 39 and also learn how to say different sports. We will also learn how to give our opinion on a sport and say whether we like it or not.