Welcome to Year 3

Our PE days are:

Tuesday (Outdoor)                                          

Wednesday (Indoor)

Please ensure that children arrive to school wearing their P.E. kit: a plan white T-shirt, black shorts or jogging bottoms, plain black trainers and a plain black hooded jacket if required.

All jewellery must be taken off as it is not permitted as per health and safety guidelines.

Keep your children fit with various short active sessions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w

https://cosmickids.com/watch/?tax=energy&term=active

Week beginning 04.11.24

English

This week we will continue our story based on the short film The Blue Umbrella. Our sentence stacking will include features such as sounds, feelings and dialogue.

Maths

We will continuing adding and subtracting this week. Using small steps, we will be looking at adding and subtracting ones, tens crossing 10s and 100s and spotting patterns.

RE

This week in RE, we will begin looking at the Christian faith and looking at the question – Why is the Bible and important book for Christians?

This term we will begin rehearsals for our Christmas production. We will also be auditioning for a variety of roles.

Computing

This week, we will be looking at further ways of staying safe online.

Geography

This term we will be focusing on the UK, developing our locational knowledge.

This is a very prestigious award presented every 2 weeks to a child in each class who has impressed their teachers with their academic work, effort, engagement or demonstrated one or more of our core values.

Our first certificates of the new academic year have been awarded to:

• • 3SC: Jennifer
  • 3RP: Mahira
  • 3CW: Harriett

Well done. We are incredibly proud of you.

This is also a very prestigious award presented every 2 weeks to a child in each class who ALWAYS does the right thing and makes the right choices relating to for example: behaviour, manners, showing kindness and compassion, working hard, trying their best and even ensuring they always arrive on time ready to learn. Children chosen for this award are role models in our school and an example to all. We can’t wait to choose our first Always children!

We use Times Table Rock Stars  to support their rapid recall of these. All children have a login and are encouraged to use it as often as they can.

Here is the link to the website:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

In Year 3, we celebrate the love of reading.

Every Monday, children will visit the library and have a chance to select a book of their choice from a range of beautiful new books. The children will have the opportunity to change their library books if they want to on the following Thursday providing that their library book has been brought in to be returned.

Children have the opportunity to read books from the school library and class library.

We take the time to ‘Listen for Pleasure’ before the end of each school day to explore a range of texts and to encourage children to read different genres.

During our Reading lessons, we will be focusing on the VIPERS skills shown below. These skills are essential for children to explore throughout their reading journey to really unpick their understanding and deepen their interest.

Click on the link below for more age-related texts.

Best Books for Year 3 | Ages 7-8 | The Reader Teacher

Spelling lists consist of Read Write Inc spellings and Orange words.

Read Write Inc spellings follow a scheme, looking at spelling rules, patterns, prefixes, suffixes etc, and we aim to complete 1 unit every fortnight.

Orange words are the words from the National Curriculum Y3/4 spelling list.