Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
2023-2024
Key dates for the year group (Spring term):
Monday 8th January - Y3 Portals to the Past - Stone Age Day
W/b Monday 5th February - Children's Mental Health Week - activities in school
Thursday 7th March - World Book Day (more information to follow)
Thursday 7th March - Year 3 Reading Cafe 9am in the hall
Tuesday 19th March - Year 3 Outcome Event 2.30pm
Thursday 28th March - End of term
Key dates for the year group (Autumn term):
Wednesday 27th September - Mini Me Yoga taster sessions
Tuesday 3rd October - Flu immunisations
Wednesday 4th October - Harvest assemblies
Friday 6th October - Y3 walk to Brighton Hill
Tuesday 10th October - Y3 outcome afternoon
Wednesday 18th & Thursday 19th October - Parents evenings
Monday 30th October - Y3 Reading cafe 9-10am
W/b 13th November - 'It's Cool to be Kind' week (activities in school)
Monday 13th November - Beauty and the Beast performance for Y3/4 (in school)
Friday 17th November - Children in Need (own clothes for a donation)
Friday 1st December - Y3 trip to Milestones
Wednesday 13th December - Christmas Lunch (details to follow nearer the time)
Thursday 14th December - Year 3 Listen2Me concerts (parents will be invited - more information to follow)
All about the Year 3 team
In Year 3, our teachers are Miss Krawiec (Year 3 Team Leader), Miss Maylam and Miss Humphrey. We are also supported by our dedicated Learning Support Assistants (LSAs): Mr Hunt, Miss Smith, Mrs Lomasney, Mrs Kundi, Mrs Togwell, Mrs Percy and Mrs Kersley. They will support us during the day, in and out of the classroom.
PE in Year 3
Each week, the children will have two sessions of PE - one indoor session (Tuesday) and one outdoor session (Thursday). Children should come in to school wearing their PE kits on these days.
PE kit should consist of a red or white t shirt and black shorts (no football kits thank you). Black leggings/tracksuit trousers are advisable for colder weather. Dark blue or black hoodies are also advised for outdoor PE (no brightly-coloured hoodies please). For more information about PE kits, please see our school uniform section.
Home Learning
Each week, we will set home learning tasks for the children to complete. One will be a reading based activity on Purple Mash. Maths home learning will either be set on Purple Mash or on TTRockstars. This will alternate each week. The children have also been given the list of Year 3/4 spellings. They need to choose 3 words each week to practise and at the end of the term, we will test them on words from the list.
All homework will be set on a Thursday and should be returned the following Tuesday.
Y3 Reading Cafe March 2024
Y3 Reading Cafe Presentation October 2023
Follow the link below to the 'If you like...try...' book suggestion lists.
What we are learning this term:
For more detailed information about what we are learning, please see the 'Curriculum' section of the website.
Topics: Spring
English - Stone Age Boy / How to wash a woolly mammoth / Secrets of Stonehenge
Maths - Measurement / Fractions / Time / Shape / Addition and Subtraction
History - Pre-historic Britain
Science - Plants
Computing - Touch Typing / Spreadsheets
RE - Passover
PSHE - Keeping myself safe
French - Food Glorious Food
Art - Sculptures
Topics: Autumn
Our main topic this term is 'Basingstoke'. In the first half term, our geography unit is 'UK and Map Skills' and in the second half term we will be looking at local history.
In science, our first unit is 'Animals and humans', focusing on different diets of different animals, teeth, the role of the different parts of the skeleton, muscles and joints. The second unit is 'Light', focusing on light and how we see things, sources of light and what happens when light hits a material.
In art, the children are investigating the style of Pointillism and using paints and printing to produce their own pieces of art work.
Further information about other areas of the curriculum will follow shortly.
What have we been up to ...
Stone Age Day!
On Monday 9th January, the children thoroughly enjoyed a visit from Portals to the Past for their Stone Age Day. It was a fantastic, interactive day of learning all about the different times that make up the Stone Age. They all became great hunters and gatherers! During our English unit, we have been reading the book 'Stone Age Boy' which is a picture book all about the Stone Age. The children have been working on producing some amazing pieces of story writing after their day and reading the book.
Year 3 Reading Cafe October 2023
Y3 Walk to Brighton Hill shops
Our first week in the Juniors!
This week, we welcomed our new Year 3 children into school! We are so pleased with the way they have settled into school and started to learn the routines of being in the Juniors - well done Year 3!
On Tuesday, we had a special assembly in the afternoon where the children were 'sorted' into their new houses: Farah, Gershwin, Newton and Rowling. Each child sat on the chair and the sorting hat told them which house they were in. The children are now busy collecting green points in their classes using the new 'Track it' system and there's certainly been a lot handed out!
Next week, we will be starting our phonics groups. We are using a new phonics scheme called Read Write Inc so the children will be learning the routines of these new lessons to help them secure their sounds. We are really promoting reading in school and any reading you can do with your child at home will really benefit them. Practising reading frequently really helps progress.
Our visits to the library will take place on Mondays - all children should have their books in school so they can change or renew them.
Lastly, please keep looking back at the Year 3 page for updates. Our topic information will be posted shortly and key dates and information will be available on this page.
It's been a busy week for Year 3 and they have been fantastic. We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Read Write Inc Key information
At Hatch Warren Juniors, we use the Read Write Inc phonics scheme to support reading development across the school. There are some useful parent information videos below but further information about how the scheme works in our school can be followed in the 'Curriculum' section of our website - https://www.hwjs.hants.sch.uk/phonics/