Welcome to Birch's Class Page
Year 3 consists of three classes: 3SC (Mr Coulston's Class), 3AW (Mr Wailes's Class) and 3CW (Miss Whittaker's Class). Here you will find new, weekly updates and information about the fantastic learning that has taken place in Year 3. Please feel free to take advantage of suggested links that will help support your children with consolidating their learning at home. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with a member of our Year 3 team mentioned above if you have any queries.
Learning together, growing together
Our core values of Endurance, Justice, Friendship, Compassion and Peace underpin all that we do.
Physical Education
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 jewelery must be taken off as it is not permitted as per health and safety guidelines.
Keep your children fit with various short active sessions.
Autumn Timetables
Year 3 Curriculum
This Week's Learning
Week beginning 01/12/2025
This week is assessment week. Each child will receive a SPaG paper, a reading paper, an arithmetic paper and2 reasoning papers. Also this week, there is a panto and the children will be busy rehearsing for their Christmas performance.
English:
Our new topic that will take us up to Christmas is poetry. We will be planning a poem and sharing ideas about Autumn. The topic starts with a lesson for children to sample the sights and smells of Autumn; looking a leaves, drinking hot chocolate and smelling ginger and cinnamon.
Maths:
We will start a new unit on multiplication and division. They will start with a practical lesson sorting groups of number sand linking this to number sentences before moving on to more concrete work in their books cementing this learning.
Geography:
In Geography this week, the children will be taking a historical look at Dewsbury. They will think about why businesses and factories wanted to build in the area at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Things like roads, canals, railway networks and quarries. The children will write a letter to a potential mill owner to persuade them to build their mill in Dewsbury and what the area offers.
Physical Education (P.E.):
We will be focusing on multi-skills.
Famous For a Fortnight
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.
This week they have been awarded to:
- 3SC: Rayan
- 3AW: Ahyan
- 3CW: Maia
Well done. We are incredibly proud of you.
Always Child
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.
This week they have been awarded to:
- 3SC:
- 3AW:
- 3CW:
Well done. We are incredibly proud of you.
Times Table Rock Stars
Times table tests will take place each week. You will be notified via School Ping regarding how your child has performed in the test, and which times table to work on next.
We also 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
Reading
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.
Spellings
Spellings will be sent out out week to practice for a spelling to test the following week.