01865 248862
Cedar Class 
Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
Welcome to Cedar Class (Year 3)
Welcome to Year 3. Please take a look at the knowledge organiser for all of the brilliant learning that we will be doing between now and end of term.
Year 3 are a brilliant, fun class to teach and I am always available for a chat at the end of the day on the playground, ot please contact me on year3@westoxfordschool.co.uk or speak to the school office.
Ms Hart
y3 cedar class knowledge organiser term 2.pdf
y3 cedar class knowledge organiser term 1.pdf
Yearly Overview Grid
As part of our Curriculum review this year, we have been able to map out the learning every class will be covering across the school year. This grid should give you a rough idea of the areas of learning we will be covering throughout Year 3, with each term reinforced with a new knowledge organiser at the start of the term. The grid, sets out all the lessons we teach as well as the termly Enquiry Question. Please be aware that our curriculum is ever evolving and we may well make further changes to the content as the year progresses. Visit the Curriculm section of the website for more information regarding our new Enquiry Curriculum.
Learning in Term 1
We have been learning all about the Stone Age to the Iron Age this term. Our enquiry question this term is "How has daily life changed from the Stone Age to today?" This is heavily reflected in our history work as well as other subjects.
While looking at this question we have learned about about life in the Stone Age and just how challenging it was. We have been writing about it, discussing it and creating pieces of art and DT (Design Technology) inspired by their way of life.
In English we have read UG: Stone Age Boy Genius, and are currently reading Stone Age Boy. Both are great books that help us to learn about what life may have been like in the Stone Age in a fun way while also looking at comics, fictional texts and historical fiction. We have been writing in character while writing diary entries, creating acrostic poems, retelling stories in our writing and creating our own comics.
In music we have had fun learning to sing and chant like Vikings, as well as learn about staying safe online and how to play Times Table Rockstars which allows us to play games in order to help learn our times tables. You can find out more about it here: https://ttrockstars.com/
In maths, we have been learning about numbers up to 100 then onto 1000. We have used Base Tens (also known as Dienes), Place Value Counters, 100 grids, Part-Whole Models, Bar Models and more to help us take a deep look at number bonds to 100, place value, partitioning them and then moving on up to 1000.
In PE we have been building up our basketball skills, football and other ball games while working on agility, accuracy, team work and ball control.
Pictures of Cedar Class in Action Term 1
Stone Age Weaving
Cedar Class Maths Partitioning and Place Value
The School Reading List
Suggested reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
(From the website The School Reading List, not a list directly from WOCPS)
Books for Year 3 – looking for a great book for the classroom, the school library or your child’s collection? The following list contains 50 short chapter books, more advanced picture books and rhyming verse to appeal to children aged 7-8 in lower Key Stage 2 of UK primary schools. There is a range of recommended reads suitable for all ability ranges within this age group, including titles for both reluctant and more independent readers. In all our hand-picked lists, we feature books to appeal to a wide range of interests and situations, including classroom reading corners, school libraries, book clubs, learning at home, reading and discussing using zoom and teams, reading buddies and first free readers. This list of reading suggestions for seven-year-olds is curated by our team of teachers and school librarians, is reviewed termly and includes stories by a range of authors and spans a variety of genres.
