Welcome to Year 3

Mrs Brooks and Miss Miller 2024-2025

Welcome back to Year 3! We hope that you all had a super couple of weeks off. We are really looking forward to a new school term full of the exciting opportunities that summer brings. Please find some important information about our class below.

In literacy, we will be learning to write narratives, a newspaper report and potions using the books Into the Forest' by Anthony Browne, Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' and 'Wisp' by Zana Fraillon. We will also start the term by reading 'Leon and the Place Between' by Angela McAllister and 'The Boy who Grew Dragons' by Andy Shepherd.

In maths, we will be completig the revising measurement before moving onto the summer units below.

We will focus on history in topic this term when we will be learning about The Romans. We will be learning about life in Rome, the Roman invasion of Britain and Roman technology. In science, we will be investigating ‘Forces and Magnets' before moving on to our 'Plants' topic. Keep checking our class Dojo page for updates about our learning and amazing achievements.

Homework

Children in Year 3 should read aloud to an adult every night.  As well as daily reading, children must practise their spellings and timetables.  Each week, our spellings are available to practise online on Spelling Shed and children will be tested on them the following Monday morning.  In Year 3, children need to know the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables and it is vital that children practise these regularly at home.  Again, these can be practised online using Times Tables Rockstars. Children will also be sent home maths tasks to complete that are linked to our weekly focus.

Links for Spelling Shed and TT Rockstars are at the bottom of the page. You will find your child's login details in their Reading Record.

Please record daily home reading in your child's reading record and send it in to school each day. We will collect the reading records in each Friday and award Dojo points for home reading.

P.E.

Children will have P.E. on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and should bring their P.E kits to school at the start of every half term. We are very excited to be taking part in martial arts sessions each Tuesday in the first half of the summer term and also learning key skills in hockey and athletics lessons.

P.E. kit - house team coloured t-shirt, black or blue shorts or tracksuit/jogging bottoms/leggings (in colder weather) and trainers or plimsolls.  No jewellery should be worn for safety reasons. Children who wear earrings must take them out for P.E. or tape them up please. We will always aim to be outside for P.E. so please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather. 

Reminders:

• Children should arrive at school at 8:45am. 
• We will finish school promptly at 3:15pm.
• Children need to bring a coat, a water bottle and a healthy snack / toast money to school (and a packed lunch if needed).
• Reading records and reading books should enter and leave school every day.
• Homework includes daily reading, a maths task and regular practice of spellings and times tables.

Our Class Dojo is a good channel of communication. Please send us a message if you wish to. Miss Miller teaches Year 3 on Monday and Tuesday and Mrs Brooks teaches the class from Wednesday to Friday.

Best Wishes

Mrs Brooks and Miss Miller

Useful links for learning:

• Spelling Shed Practise your weekly spellings through fun games.

• Times Tables Rockstars Practise your times tables

• Hit The Button! Quick fire maths practice

• Dance Mat Typing Learn to type the fun way!

• Newsround Keep up to date with the latest news.