Year 3
Welcome to Year 3
Homework: English and maths will be set on alternate weeks on a weekly basis. Homework will be handed out on a Friday and the children will have 7 days to complete their homework to be handed in on the following Friday.
All homework will reflect what has been taught in school to help with consolidating learning.
Spellings: The children in Year 3 have been split into to 2 spelling groups and will be taught by Miss Bilson and Miss Daffern. It is essential that we rebuild the children’s confidence with certain spelling patterns and sounds before moving onto to more trickier spellings. This will be reassessed at the end of Autumn term.
Spellings will be introduced on Monday and tested on a Friday.
All children have access to Spelling Shed which is a valuable online tool. Children should be accessing this at home via their log on and playing minimum 5 – 10 mins per day to really embed the sounds and spelling patterns. In turn, this will help with long term memory and increase their weekly spelling scores.
PE: Children to come to school in their P.E kits on their designated days. Please ensure that your child comes appropriately dressed following school PE dress code.
Swimming sessions will commence on Friday 13th September and run all the way through to February 2025. Sessions will be held at Atherstone Leisure centre and delivered by qualified instructors in ability groups. Children will travel by coach.
Rowling class have received their swimming letter.
P.E days:
Thursday Outdoor P.E
Friday Indoor – Ennis Class.
Friday Swimming – Rowling Class.
Reading: Children have all been issued with a colour banded reading book and they have been encouraged to also pick a free reading book from either the classroom, library or home to really in still that love and passion for reading.
The Year 3 expectation is for you to read with your child minimum of 3 times per week and record it in their reading record.
A parent, carer or guardian signature will be required for each read.
Please refer to the new reading records for guidance and examples on possible questions that you could ask your child about the text which they are reading.
Reading logs and reading books are expected to be in school every day as part of school equipment and will be checked and signed by school every FRIDAY.
Timetable
What We're Learning
Details of the Year 3 learning journey can be found here: Year 3 - What we're learning
Please note, this page will be updated termly, so please keep checking back.
Autumn Term
Book Week:
Year 3 have had a roaring start to the school year with an exciting book week! They have dove deep into the wonderful story of ‘Gigantosaurus’ by Jonny Duddle and ‘The Fossil Hunter’ by Kate Winter. Children have looked at each character in-depth and the morals that are embedded deep within this children’s text: Truth, lies, perseverance, aspiration and friendship. All of these values aligning beautifully with our school vision and values.
Children have completed, grammar skills based on prepositions and speech punctuation, art work linked to fossils, Conscience alley linked to PSHE, reading comprehension based on the famous scientist and fossil hunter Mary Anning, the structure of volcanoes for Geography and even had a dinosaur themed P.E lesson based on attacking and defensive skills whereby children where tasked to guard a nest of dinosaur eggs.
There extended write culminated in a wonderful, high creative and vocabulary rich Acrostic or Concrete poem based on GIGANTOSAURUS!
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
