Welcome To Year 3

Maths

Addition & subtraction

•  Add and subtract numbers mentally, including:
• - a 3-digit number and 1s
• - a 3-digit number and 10s 
• - a 3-digit number and 100s 
• Add and subtract numbers with up to 3-digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction. 
• Estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operation to check answers. 
• Solve problems, including missing number problems. 

Multiplication and division

• Look at equal groups
• Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 3, 5, and 10 multiplication tables

English

We will start the term looking at the text Tin Forest - linked to our topic work. We will explore characters, settings and hidden meanings within the book before writing a persuasive letter. Following the Tin Forest, we will read the Iron Man by Ted Hughes and write a newspaper article based on the main character.

The grammatical focus we will be revising and learning:

• capital letters and full stops used correctly and consistently;
• powerful adjectives and verbs used appropriately;
• prepositions;
• commas for description;
• rhetorical questions
• Similes 
• Noun phrases 
• Relative clauses