Welcome to Year 3

Our P.E. days are as follows:

Tuesdays: Outdoor P.E.                                              Wednesdays: Indoor P.E.

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 29.09.24

English

This week we will be continuing our unit on Star in the Jar. We will begin planning our own version of the story, using a colour from the rainbow as our inspiration. After the various stages of planning, we will then begin writing our story.

Maths

We will moving on to adding and subtracting this week. Using small steps, we will be looking at adding and subtracting ones, tens and hundreds.

RE

This week in RE, we will be exploring the questions: Who was Abraham? We will explore and
describe links between Abraham and Noah and the covenant with God.

Science

This week, we will be investigating if magnets can work from a distance.

Computing

We will be continuing our unit on spreadsheets. We will look at how we would collect data to find out
everyone’s favourite snacks.

History

We will continue learning about the Stone Age. We will be taking a closer look at the Stone Age settlement of Skara Brae.

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: Ethan
  • 3RP: Sahir
  • 3CW: Perry

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.