Year 3 2024 - 2025
Miss Kirkham
Class Teacher
Mrs Watts
Teaching Assistant
Welcome to Year 3
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- Our Year 3 School Council Representatives: Florence, Edward and Willow
- Our Year 3 Liturgical Leaders: Martha and Monty
Hello and Welcome to Year 3!
We hope you and your families had a wonderful Christmas break and are ready to start 2025! We are so excited to see you grow and learn this year, we have lots of exciting things planned!
What are we learning?
- In RE our unit is Galilee to Jerusalum. We will be learning all about the Kingdom of God, learning about Saints and listening to Parables that will help us to think about our own lives and actions.
- In English we will be developing our sentences and writing stories to link with out class book Stone Age Boy. Alongside this we will be reading The Iron Man
- In History we will be learning everything about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age
- In Science, we will be continuing our work on Plants and their features
Please refer to the Year 3 Curriculum map on the curriculum page so you can see what we are learning and when!
What do you need in Year 3?
- Refillable Waterbottle - in school every day
- Healthy, low/no sugar snack or snack money in a named purse/wallet for breaktime
- Small backpack for your diary, homework and waterbottle
- School colour banded reading book AND Reading for Joy book (from school/local library or home)
- Blue Diary: to record reading, spelling and any messages.
- Homework book on the correct days (see below)
- If you wish to bring your own pencil case, it must be small enough to fit in your tray and must not contain any scissors or sharpeners.
Your child should bring their diary and both reading books into school each day.
PE
Children should come dressed in their PE uniform (Red tshirt, Navy shorts/joggers, School jumper/fleece) on their PE days
Indoor PE: Tuesday
Outdoor PE: Friday
Reading
Children will have two reading books in Year 3; a banded reading book and a 'Reading for Joy' book. Your child should be reading their school colour banded book more than once to aid with fluency and comprehension. Alongside this they can read another book of their choice to encourage 'Reading for Joy'.
Please read with your child daily, or as often as possible at home - recording in their diary when you listen to them read. Children will read to adult in school weekly.
It is important that children can not only read books but understand what they are reading.Try to discuss the story, characters and vocabulary with your children. Support with this can be found in the files at the bottom of this page.
Homework
Please check your child's homework diary for all homework pages. Their diary should be in class everyday.
Maths and English: Given out on Friday to be completed for the following Friday
Spelling: Given out on Wednesdays to practise rule at home
It is vital that children are learning the spelling rules in order to apply them to their writing, rather than just learning the words they bring home. A google search of the spelling rule will bring up lots more words to practise!
