Welcome to Year 3

Our class teacher is Miss Schofield

Our teaching assistant is Mrs Cavanagh

Our class is friendly, caring and a place where everyone is encouraged and eager to learn.

Our Twitter page is @stlukesoldham

Our PE days are Thursday and Friday.

Our Summer 1 topic is looking at North America, specifically Canada. In this topic, we will be studying: human and physical geography, climate zones, wildlife and landscape. We will be comparing Canada to countries in Europe: Norway, Finland and Sweden and we are looking at the Arctic Circle.

The topics for the year are:

1. Autumn 1: Scavengers and Settlers (The Stone Age)
2. Autumn 2: Active Planet
3. Spring 1: Ancient Egypt
4. Spring 2: Europe- Italy
5. Summer 1: North America - Canada 
6. Summer 2: Explorers and Adventurers 

English 

In English, we are studying mystery narratives. We will be looking at: setting descriptions, narrative retellings, non-chronological reports, letters, diary entries, dialogue, atmospheric descriptions, captions and titles.

Maths

In Maths we are looking at length and perimeter. We will also be looking at fractions. 

Reading

Miss Schofield/ Mrs Cavanagh read 1:1 with children every day. We also take part in a shared reading lesson every day and Mrs Cavanagh provides phonics lessons during this time. We look at different text types in more detail, following the VIPERS structure. To develop our love of reading we enjoy choosing books to read for pleasure from our class library. Our favourites include titles by Michael Bond, Roald Dahl and Dick King Smith.

This half term we will be reading : A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond