Welcome To Our Class Page

Meet The Team

The Year 3 teacher is Mrs Woodward 

Mrs O'Malley, Mr Becket, Mr Van Der leeuw, Mrs Wood, Mr Ball and Miss Hedges are the Learning Support Assistants. They are all supporting the class at different times throughout the week.

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 Summer term in English we will be basing our work around plants as thins links to our Science topic. We will be starting with some explanation texts and will then write a descriptive story about how a plant grows. In Summer 2 we will be focusing our writing on our new topic of the Tudors. We will be writing persuasive letters and looking at some Shakespeare plays so we can create our own playscripts. We will also be writing a summary about ST George's day.

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. We will be using: Stig of the dump, The Queen's Token and Macbeth - A Shakespeare story, to focus our reading skills.

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.

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: Fractions, money, time, shape and statistics.  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 - Religion in the community and what holds a religion together. The different beliefs in Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism

PSHE 

Our focus is 

History & Geography 

Our Geography topic for Summer 1 will be focused on coasts. We will learn about how different coats are created - erosion of dispositional, explore coastal management, identify different types of beaches, use maps to research coastal areas and learn how changes in land affect people and the environment.

In Summer 2 our History focus is all about The Tudors: understand how the house of Tudor came into power, identify the Tudor monarchs, Understand the significance of Mary Rose, Investigate Tutor life and investigate significant people and events during the Elizabethan period.

Science

Our Science topic for Summer 1  will be Plants: What do we know about plants? The different parts of a plant and their purpose, Where do new plants come from? What do bees do? How are seeds dispersed?

In Summer 2 we will be learning about Animals including humans: nourishment, skeletons and muscles and types of nourishment. 

Art & DT 

For Summer 1 our focus will be 3D sculpture: structural shapes, constructing in 3D, seeing space, abstract sculpture and surface decoration.

In Summer 2 we will be constructing castles: features of a castle, designing a castle, nets and structures and finally building our own castles.

PE - This is taught by Sports 4 All

ICT

At Long Crendon we use Purple Mash in our ICT lessons. 

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