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Year 3 - Otters
Year 3 - Otters
Welcome to Otters’ class page!
Class teacher - Miss Gumbley ngumbley@inspiream.org.uk
Teaching Assistant - Mr Mann and Miss Popperwell
Forest School is on a Wednesday morning. Children should wear their Forest School kit every Wednesday and bring their school uniform to change into afterwards.
PE is on a Thursday morning. Children should come into school dressed in their PE kit.
Main Experiences
TERM 1 EXPERIENCES:
Ravishing Regions - In this Geography and English experience, the children will be exploring the differences between Kent and Snowdonia, talking to experts and learning about the human and geographical features that can be seen. We will be creating a narrative to set the scene of Snowdonia to send to our experts.
A Lot On My Plate - In this Science and English experience, the children will learn about the digestive system and the way the human body works. They will explore this through writing an explanation text that can be used to teach other people about the process.
On Top Of The World - In this Geography and English experience, the children will be exploring topography and the way that climate is impacted by the landscape. We will be developing our narratives from our first experience to create a conflict and resolution.
TERM 2 EXPERIENCES:
May The Force Be With You - In this Science and English experience, the children will be looking at contact and non-contact forces. We will be writing up an experiement to share with other schools across the trust.
Slice Slice Baby - In this D&T and English experience, the children will be looking at different cutting and slicing techniques to create a salad. They will be creating a recipe and instructions for their salad so they can be followed and recreated.
Poetic Prints - In this Art and English experience, the children will be looking at printing techniques to create a seasonal card to share with local people in supported living. Inside the card, we will be writing poems with a seasonal theme to share with the recipients of our cards.
DISCRETE EXPERIENCES:
Reading - Pupils will either continue with their Read, Write, Inc. phonics sessions or do Guided Reading. Children in Guided Reading are focussing on key skills: vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summary. We are reading 'Highland Falcon Thief' by M.G Leonard and Sam Sedgman, and we will be looking at a range of poems at the end of term.
Maths- Pupils will learn about place value and partitioning including hundreds, tens and ones. We will then learn about addition and subtraction including 3 digits +/- 2 digits, followed by multiplication and division with a focus on times tables.
PE - This term our PE focus is netball. We will focus on catching, passing and scoring. We also have a dance instructor coming in every other week until May to teach us.
RE - In RE we are focusing on Sikhism. We will explore the similarities and differences to a Sikh life compared to our own and think about their experiences whilst worshipping in the UK
Wellbeing - This term's wellbeing focus is an introduction to mental health and wellbeing. We will look at feelings and how to cope with a range of different feelings. We will also be looking at how to be a good listener.
How can you support at home?
Please talk to your child about their learning. Key knowledge that the children need to know is detailed on their launch pages.
Recommended book list - Year 3
The Accidental Prime minister – Tom McLaughlin
The Boy Who Grew Dragons – Andy Shepherd
Varjak Paw – SF Said
Dog Man – Dav Pikey
King Kong – Anthony Browne
Beast Quest – Adam Blade
Leon and the Place Between – Angela McAllister
The Abombniables - Eva Ibbotson
Ice Palace – Robert Swindells
Voices in the park – Anthony Browne
The World According to Humphrey – Betty. G. Birney
Kid Normal – Greg James
Harry the Poisonous Centipede – Lynne Read Banks
Dilly the Dinosaur – Tony Bradman
At our House – Isabel Minhos Martins
A Moment in time: A perpetual Picture Atlas – Thomas Hegbrook
The Invisible Boy – Trudy Ludwig
Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown
The Secret World of Polly Flint – Helen Cresswell
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl
Wilf the Mighty Worrier Saves the World – Georgia Prittchett
The Magic Finger – Roald Dahl
Dog in the Dungeon – Lucy Daniels
Willa and Old Miss Annie – Berlie Doherty
My Naughty Little Sister – Dorothy Edwards
The Diary of a Killer Cat – Anne Fine
Picasso Perkins – Adele Geras
The Reluctant Dragon – Kenneth Grahame
The Charlie Moon Collection – Shirley Hughes
All Because of Jackson – Dick King Smith
The Orchard Book of First Greek Myths – Saviour Pirotta
The Winnie the Pooh Collection – A/A Milne
Mrs Cockle’s Cat – Philippa Pearce
Mrs Pepperpot Stories – Alf Proysen
Unusual Day – Sandy Toksvig
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark – Jill Tomlinson
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Londgren
The Cat in the Hat – Dr Seuss
Who’s in the Loo? – Jeanne Willis
The True Stories of the 3 Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka
It was a Dark and Stormy Night – Janet Ahlberg
The Railway Cat – Phyliss Arkle
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sandak
Learning Experiences 2023-2024
Ravishing Regions
In this Geography and English experience, the children will be exploring the differences between Kent and Snowdonia, talking to experts and learning about the human and geographical features that can be seen. We will be creating a narrative to set the scene of Snowdonia to send to our experts.
Our Hook
A call with experts from Snowdonia to ask lots of questions about the geography of Mount Snowdon.
Our Outcome
A narrative to send to Snowdonia experts to demonstrate our understanding of the differences between Kent and Snowdonia - please see completed narratives in 'On Top of the World'.
A Lot On My Plate
In this Science and English experience, the children will learn about the digestive system and the way the human body works. They will explore this through writing an explanation text that can be used to teach other people about the process.
Our Hook
Modelling the digestive system using crackers and bananas and squeezing it through tights and cups! This represented the intestines and rectum.
Our Outcome
We created explanation texts to teach about the process of digestion to others.
On top of the world
In this Geography and English experience, the children will be exploring topography and the way that climate is impacted by the landscape. We will be developing our narratives from our first experience to create a conflict and resolution.
Our Hook
Using VR headsets to visit Snowdon and a range of other mountains, potato contours and gathering information about what mountain climate is like
Our Outcome
This is a shared outcome from Ravishing Regions, a narrative exploring the changes in climate up Mount Snowdon.
May The Force Be With You
In this Science and English experience, the children will be looking at contact and non-contact forces. We will be writing up an experiement to share with other schools across the trust.
Our Hook
We created rockets and considered the forces that impact rocket launching and why ours came back to Earth but real ones don't!
Our Outcome
We created a written report on an experiment to share with other schools across the academy to see if we could recreate their experiments.
Slice Slice Baby
In this D&T and English experience, the children will be looking at different cutting and slicing techniques to create a salad. They will be creating a recipe and instructions for their salad so they can be followed and recreated.
Our Hook
The lovely ladies from the kitchen came and showed us how to safely use a knife and chopping board to cut up salad ingredients. We then had a go ourselves using knives and peelers with a range of fruit and vegetables.
Our Outcome
Parents came in to taste our lovely salads and take a copy of our recipes. Almost all the salad was gone! A very successful D+T experience!
Poetic Prints
In this Art and English experience, the children will be looking at printing techniques to create a seasonal card to share with local people in supported living. Inside the card, we will be writing poems with a seasonal theme to share with the recipients of our cards.
Our Hook
Our Outcome
