Year 3 2024 - 2025
Mrs Dutton 3/4LD
I have been teaching at Woodlands Primary School since September 2013, and lead our Year 3/4 team. I am passionate about teaching all subjects, but I really enjoy teaching English, exploring different narratives and writing imaginatively and creatively. I lead English across our whole school, and love to plan exciting activities to promote reading at Woodlands. When children reach the top of the reading chart or strive for 5, it makes my heart sing!
When not in school, I can usually be found running around after my three children or my dog, Bertie. I love reading stories with my children or baking yummy treats in the kitchen.
My motto is 'Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars!'
Miss Sayce 3ES
Hello! My name is Miss Sayce and this is my fifth year working at Woodlands Primary School. I am very excited to be teaching Year 3 this year, and I am really looking forward to being part of the Key Stage 2 team! I enjoy teaching all subjects, but I particularly like science as there are so many exciting things to discover. I also love reading, some of my favourite books are 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald dahl and 'Ratburger' by David Walliams. When I am not in school, I love to bake tasty treats for my friends and family, as well as grow fruit and vegetables in my garden! I also like to watch football, especially my favourite team, Shrewsbury Town FC. I can't wait to get to know you all, I know we will have so much fun and learn a lot!
Mrs Barrett 3LB
Hi there, I am Mrs Barrett. This is my fifth year at Woodlands and my second in Year 3. This is my tenth year of teaching and prior to working here, I taught in Melbourne, Australia, which I loved, but there really is no place like home!
I enjoy teaching English as I am passionate about creative writing and reading and I love seeing child develop their own styles of writing.
I am the music lead for Woodlands and enjoy creating opportunities for our children to express themselves through the arts. My favourite day of the school year is our Young Voices concert, where we sing in Manchester with over 8000 other children from schools in the North West.
Outside of school, I love floristry, learning new things, fitness and have completed 3 marathons, including London. I am also very busy with my beautiful daughter and two puppies. We love nothing more than exploring the Wirral beaches together.
I am very much looking forward to another year working closely with the team at Woodlands.
Welcome to Y3!
Autumn 1
Welcome to Year 3.
We are looking forward to a wonderful and exciting year.
This half term, we will read, 'Gorilla' by Anthony Browne.
This beautifully illustrated story introduces Hannah. Hannah loves gorillas, but she has never seen one. In the modern world, her father's too busy to take her to the zoo – or for anything else come to that. For her birthday, Hannah asks her father for a gorilla – but is disappointed when she discovers that the gorilla she's got is just a toy one. However, something extraordinary happens!
At the end of this unit of work, we will write our own narrative based on the story of 'gorilla'
Our Mastery Targets for Autumn 1 are:
- to write expanded noun phrases to describe
- to use prepositions to express time, place and cause
- to begin to group related ideas into paragraphs
- to use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
In our shared reading sessions this term, we will be exploring 'A world full of animals stories' by Angela McAllister. This book contains 50 folktales and legends for us to enjoy!
Our Mastery Targets for Autumn 1 are:
- Ask questions to improve understanding
- Draw inferences (inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions); justify with evidence
In maths this half term, we will be focusing on place value. We will;
- represent and partition numbers to 100
- represent and partition number to 1000
- explore hundreds, tens and ones
In Year 3, we aim to grow our times tables knowledge by learning our 3,4,6 and 8 times tables off by heart. We will practise these alongside our 2s, 5s and 10s which we learnt in Year 2. Please support your children with their recall. You may wish to use TTrockstars and URBrainy.
https://urbrainy.com/mtc/test
PE Days
In year 3, our PE days for this half term are Mondays and Fridays. Please come into school in your PE kit on these days. If the sun is shining, please remember to bring a sun hat and plenty of water. Sun cream should be applied before the school day.
Our PE topic for this half term are Dance and Tag Rugby
