Welcome to Birch's Class Page
Year 3 consists of three classes: 3SC (Mr Coulston's Class), 3RP (Mrs Patel'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:
Monday (Indoor)
Tuesday (Outdoor)
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.
Spring Timetables
Year 3 Curriculum
This Week's Learning
Week beginning 21/04/2025
English:
We will begin a new narrative called ‘The Secret of Black Rock’.
Maths:
This week we will be looking at measuring using metres, centimetres and millimetres and equivalent lengths.
Science:
This week, we will start our new unit which will focus on plants. We will begin with our memory quiz to check our understanding.
History:
In History, we will start exploring the history of Dewsbury.
Music:
We will continue learning to play glockenspiels and looking at how rhythm and pitch are represented in written music.
DT:
We will continue learning about constructing 3D castles.
Physical Education (P.E.):
We will we playing world sports, as well as learning more about a variety of ball games in our outdoor sessions.
Religious Education (R.E.):
We will study the Creation Stories about how the world was created. This week we will focus on Sikhism.
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: Lexie
- 3RP: Dylan
- 3CW: Aisha
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: Lexie
- 3RP: Molly
- 3CW: Eliza
Well done. We are incredibly proud of you.
School Council Members
We will soon be recruiting our School Council members. Check back here for an update soon.3RP: 3SC: 3CW:
Times Table Rock Stars
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
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
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.