Welcome to Year 3
Lynx – Mrs Chaplin and Mrs Last, supported by Miss Price and Mrs Chillman
Penguins – Miss Bodmer, supported by Miss Manthorpe
Reading
Here at Northfield St Nicholas, we love to read! We have a daily reading session, with a core text. This half term our core texts are “Greta and the Giants” and “The Pebble in my Pocket”. The core texts are supplemented by a variety of additional texts, to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.
All children have a reading book based on their assessment level. Please remember to read at least 3 times a week and log this on Boom Reader.
Once a week, the children have the opportunity to visit our school’s ‘Lost Library’. During their weekly library sessions children can change their existing library books. These are taken home for them to enjoy in their home setting!
Writing
Here at NSN, we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. CUSP provides an ambitious curriculum, covering the necessary skills required to be successful readers and writers.
This half term we will be writing our own third person narratives with a key focus on literacy devices and expanded noun phrases. We will then move on to performance poetry. 
Maths
At Northfield St Nicholas, we adopt a Mastery approach during our daily maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include ‘Flashback 4’ where children recap 4 previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This half term we will be covering multiplication and division, and length and perimeter.
Times Tables are so important in LKS2 to help children confidently tackle trickier maths problems– please support your child in learning and rapidly recalling their tables at least 3 times a week on TTRockstars or Hit the Button. https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/41117
Science
In Science this half term we are focusing on Rocks. We will identify the different types of rock and how they are formed and how they change over time.
Geography
Our Geography theme this term is map skills. Children will learn about the human and physical features in our local area, as well as learning how to read and use a compass.
History
This half term, we will be learning about the changes in Britain from The Stone Age to the Iron Age.
PE
PE takes place on a Thursday. Please ensure your child arrives to school in full PE kit. This half term the children will participate in a wide variety of invasion games.