Parkside Primary School

Welcome to Year 3!

The class teachers are Miss Colby, Miss Oldridge and Miss Salisbury.

Homework will continue to be sent home every Friday and should be brought back on the following Wednesday. As always, it is helpful to enjoy books together at home and discuss what they have been up to at school!

Please make sure your child has their PE kit on the appropriate days.

Thank you very much for your continued support.

What are we learning?

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Past topics -

Full Steam Ahead

Savage Stone Age

Maths Methods

Please click here for videos illustrating addition and subtraction methods used in Year 3.

End of year expectations

These statements provide an outline of what is expected of your child at the end of the academic year. Please note that they reflect the higher expectations outlined by the new National Curriculum.

Reading

Comment on the way characters relate to one another.
Know which words are essential in a sentence to retain meaning.
Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.
Recognise how commas are used to give more meaning.
Recognise inverted commas
Recognise:

plurals
pronouns and how used
collective nouns
adverbs
Explain the difference that the precise choice of adjectives and verbs make.

Writing

Use conjunctions (when, so, before, after, while, because).
Use adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon).
Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).
Experiment with adjectives to create impact.
Correctly use verbs in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.
Use perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause.
Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.
Group ideas into basic paragraphs.
Write under headings and sub-headings.
Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.

Mathematics

Compare & order numbers up to 1000.
Read & write all numbers to 1000 in digits and words.
Find 10 or 100 more/less than a given number.
Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
Recall & use multiplication & division facts for 3, 4, 8 tables.
Recognise place value of any 3-digit number.
Add and subtract

3-digit nos and ones
3-digit nos and tens
3-digit nos and hundreds
Add and subtract:

Numbers with up to 3-digits using written columnar method.
Estimate and use inverse to check.
Multiply:

2-digit by 1-digit
Count up/down in tenths.
Compare and order fractions with same denominator.
Add and subtract fractions with same denominator with whole.
Tell time using 12 and 24 hour clocks; and using Roman numerals.
Tell time to nearest minute.
Know number of days in each month and number of seconds in a minute.

What have we been doing?

Year 3