Welcome To Our Class Page

Meet The Team

The Year 3 teacher is Mrs Woodward 

Mrs O'Malley, Mr Becket, Mrs Wood and Miss Hedges are the Learning Support Assistants. 

Important Information

P.E - Wednesday and Thursday

Please ensure you come to school in P.E kit on those days.

Forest School - Wednesday every 2 weeks

Please ensure you have waterproofs, wellies and warm clothing for Forest School.

Curriculum Information

Writing

This first half of Autumn term in English we will be basing our work around "Egyptian Cinderella" . This is linked into our History topic of the Egyptians. We will be starting with some work around comparing texts . We will then be writing our own narrative.

Reading 

Over the term will be practising a variety of comprehension (VIPERS) skills including: inferencing and predicting and we will also be covering a number of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives. Reading is such an important skill; it really unlocks all areas of the curriculum. 

Spellings

There will be a weekly spellings lesson and we will be following the Rising Stars programme of study. We will also be running Phonics groups to continue this support beyond KS1.

This half term we will be focusing on the use of suffixes, how we use the 'u' sound in words & prefixes.

Year 3 / Spelling word list https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2019/08/29/13/54/08/76f1443d-9b6d-4030-be0d-25fcfef01438/SpellingWordList_Y3-4.pdf

Maths

We follow White Rose Maths scheme at Long Crendon. Throughout this term, we will be covering: place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division. We will be stretching and challenging the children by including both fluency and problem solving sessions.

Each Wednesday we will be running a mental maths lesson where the children will be focusing on their times tables and a range of mental calculations.

RE - 

We will be looking at what worship is and how different people choose to worship. 

PSHE 

Our focus is 'Being me in my world'. Within this we will be focusing on: accepting that everyone is different how to respect yourself and others.

History & Geography 

Our History will be focused on the Ancient Egyptians. We learn when and where the Ancient Egyptians lived, the river Nile, Egyptian Pharaohs, Why the Egyptians built the pyramids, What did the Egyptians do for fun? What was mummification? Who were the Egyptian gods and why were they important? What were hieroglphics?

Science

Our Science topic this half term will be Light: recognising that light is needed to see things, notice that light is reflected from surfaces, know that light from the sun can be dangerous, recognise and form shadows.

Art & DT 

For this half term we have a Art focus which is drawing. We will be looking at sketching techniques, shading and texture.

PE - This is taught by Sports 4 All

ICT

At Long Crendon we use Purple Mash in our ICT lessons. This half term we will be focusing on coding.

Homework

Learning Log Homework

Homework is due in on a Wednesday and handed back to the children on Fridays

We have a choice of tasks to complete from our homework grid.

This term the learning log tasks are linked to our topic of the Ancient Egyptians

Reading Diaries

Reading diaries are to be handed in on a Friday. We encourage children to read at least 3 x per week.  

Times Tables Practice

. We encourage children to complete Times Tables Rock stars at home 3 x per week to support their times tables knowledge.

Supporting Your Child's Learning at Home

Our experience has shown us that the support children get from home has a positive impact on their learning. We hope you find the below information useful.

See below for useful websites:

www.topmarks.co.uk 
www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html
www.timestables.co.uk

Parent / Teacher Partnership

We are always open and happy to discuss your child's schooling. We are keen to ensure your child receives a 360 approach to their learning throughout their year with us. 

Therefore, we aim to keep communication open. Each day after school we are at the gate should you wish to catch us. You can email or phone the office with queries and questions, which we will endeavour to respond to quickly. And, as well as this we can offer face-to-face meetings or phone calls, which again, can be arranged by the office.  

office@longcrendon.bucks.sch.uk