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Year 3

Welcome to Year 3

We hope that you had a relaxing and enjoyable summer holiday and are ready to tackle the exciting challenges that Year 3 holds for you. We are very excited to welcome you to the class.

In topic this term we will travel back in time to find out all about the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings. We will concentrate on understanding the reasons why both Anglo Saxons and the Vikings chose to invade and settle in Britain and the impact they both had on shaping our past and the legacy they left on our life today.  

  Our topic will cover the following themes and ideas:  

  • What artefacts can tell us about the past.
  • How ‘who is telling the story’ influences our understanding of past events. 
  • Where we are still able to see Anglo-Saxon and Viking influences on life today.
  • How we can begin to use historical evidence to help form our own opinions on past events.

Some of our cross – curricular activities will involve the children developing their geographical skills in using atlases and Google Earth to map where the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings came from and where they settled in Britain. Learning about the story of Sutton Hoo and empathising with the feelings of the archaeologists involved through Drama. Using their art skills to design and make Anglo – Saxon amulets out of clay and using collage and painting techniques to replicate Viking longboats and finding out how Christianity spread through the Anglo-Saxon times during RE sessions.  

  • Throughout our learning, we will be considering key enquiry questions (listed below) and using our research and newly acquired knowledge to answer them.  
  • In the past, historians described the Saxon times as, The Dark Ages. Was this in fact true? 
  • Did the Vikings deserve their reputation as vicious raiders or were they just peaceful settlers?  

For additional curriculum information about our topic, please click here  

 

We continue to follow White Rose curriculum in Maths and the Year 3 topic overview can be found on the Maths Curriculum page by clicking here.

For a more detailed breakdown of curriculum coverage please scroll down to the Maths section below.

Our English and Guided Reading units of work for this term will be based around these books: 

  • The Tin Forest by Helen Ward
  • The Arthur and the Golden Rope by Joe Todd-Stanton

For details about curriculum coverage of our English units please scroll down to the Year 3 Writing section below.

PE days will be on Tuesday and Thursday.

Please come to school wearing your PE kit on these days, but bring your school uniform in a separate bag for you to change into if you get wet during your PE lesson.

Please ensure you bring reading books & reading record, water bottle and healthy snack to school every day.

The Year 3 team is: Miss Charlton

Mrs Kibble, Mrs Evans, Mrs Eastwood, Miss Gilbert and Mrs Francis.

Communicating with school:

For general things e.g. lost jumper, wearing trainers etc, please contact Miss Charlton using the messaging function on Seesaw.

For more significant concerns or worries, please email secretary@nshprimary.co.uk with FAO Miss Charlton Class teacher in the subject.

Any changes to school pick up should go through the school office.

Year 3 Topics

Year 3 Maths

Telling the Time

Year 3 Writing

Year 3 and 4 Spelling list

Reading

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