Year 3
In Year 3 we enjoy a varied curriculum. We also like to continue to foster your daughters' growing independence. We aim to teach our young ladies how to conduct themselves in a polite and courteous manner. At our family service at lunch time the girls are expected to display impeccable table manners.
Homework and other key information will be written in the homework diary on a weekly basis and the diaries should be brought into school every day. The expectation of homework is for it to be completed to a high standard and to be returned on the set day.
AUTUMN TERM
MATHEMATICS - We will revist and extend the girls' knowledge on adding and subtracting numbers up to a thousand, times tables, money, fractions, muliplication and division, shape, data handling and measures.
ENGLISH - We enjoy reading text and answering comprehensions questions, writing narrative stories with familiar settings and creating exciting adventure and mystery stories.
SPELLINGS - Tested on a Wednesday
TOPIC - We study various aspects of WWII. Why did the war start? What happened in the Bitz? What was rationing? What was life like for an evacuee? The girls are encouraged to dress in WWII costumes during these lessons.
PE - This will be taught on a Tuesday and Thursday morning.
MUSIC - This will take place on a Thursday morning.
VERBAL REASONING - Taught weekly.
SWIMMING
WINTER TERM
TOPICS - Our main topic this term is India. We have a look at many aspects of India; how people dress, Indian school life and the monsoon season. The girls really enjoy our Indian dancing lessons with Shrimati Susanna.
MATHEMATICS - We continue with addition and subtraction to 100 - 1000, then 10,000. We shall work with money, factions, multiplication and division, shape and data handling. When using measures, the girls will look at the relationship between kilometres and metres and metres and centimetres.
ENGLISH - The range for this term consists of myths, fables, parables and stories with related themes. The verse concentrates on oral and performance poetry from different cultures.
READING - Individual books can be changed on a Monday or Thursday and are to be read at home. Group reading will continue to place once a week.
SCIENCE - We will be investigating Rocks and Soils and Magnets and Springs.
SUMMER TERM
TOPIC - Romans. We shall research life in Celtic Britain, Queen Boudicca, Roman invasions, Roman towns, Roman homes, how Romans dressed and their religious beliefs.
ENGLISH - The girls will study poems that play with language, humorous poems, word puzzles, and puns and riddles. Your daughter will focus on becoming more critical as a reader and will be asked to evaluate and justify her reading preferences.
MATHEMATICS - We shall revising and consolidate adding and subtracting combinations of one and two digit numbers. To develop and use written methods to record, support or explain addition and subtraction of two and three digit numbers to 1000, then 10,000. There will also be further practive of money, fractions, multiplication, division and numbers to 1000.
SCIENCE - The girls will observe how shadows are formed and how they change throughout the day. We will also study why the Earth spins on its axis.
