Year 3 2024 - 2025

We hope that you have all had a fantastic summer break. We are really looking forward to sharing your child's learning journey this year and getting to know everyone well.

I am Mr Wilson and I am the Year 3 teacher. Mrs Parker will be working with us in the lower juniors.

Thank you for your support, we are looking forward to a happy and productive year together! From Mr Wilson and Mrs Parker.

Our Christian value is: Compassion

English: 

This half term we will be reading a brilliant book called Traction Man by Mini Grey. We will focus on writing stories based on our own action heroes before writing a report on them. 

Our current class read is The Witches by Roald Dahl.

Maths: 

• Place value
• Ordering and comparing numbers
• Addition and subtraction

You can help your child by:

- Supporting them with their homework tasks.

- Helping them to learn multiplication & division facts, such as x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and x8 (Year 3 target)

- Supporting them in accessing Times Table Rock Stars as much as possible. Children will bring home login details for this website/app. Teacher set times tables will appear in the ‘Garage’ section.

Our current topic is: Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Egypt in History
• Drawing and painting in Art
• Rocks in Science
• Coding and Online Safety in ICT
• What do different people belive about God? in RE        
• Dance in PE. PE lessons are Monday and Tuesday (Sports Coach). Please ensure children have their PE kit in school every day.   

Homework will be a Topic Grid this half term and will be sent home in the children's homework books. Homework is to be completed by Wednesday 23rd October. Thank you for your continued support with homework and spellings. 

Spellings are set on Fridays and will be tested the following Friday. There will be opportunities to practise the spelling rule in school, but the children would benefit from time spent practising at home too.

Please remind your child to bring their reading book into school every day. After sharing reading books at home, please sign reading records. The children will read at school once a week. The majority of the children’s reading should be done at home as the books in Year 3 can be very long. If children are not reading at home, they will not be able to progress through the reading levels.

Useful Websites

• BBC Bitesize - A primary school resource for children studying Key Stage 2 Maths, English and Science, featuring game activities and tests.

• Thinkuknow - If you are 7, 8, 9 or 10, I bet you probably like to use the computer for fun. Why not take a look at this website to help you go on the internet in a safe way and know who to talk to if you are worried.

• Times Table Rock Stars- this fantastic app aims to help the children become more fluent with recalling their multiplication facts. Children all have log in details and work is set by the teacher.

• Topmarks Daily Ten- short online maths activities.