Welcome to Year 3!
Year 3 Curriculum Information
September 2024
Welcome to Year 3!
Please can home/school books and reading books be brought into school every day.
PE is on a Friday – Children can come into school in their PE kits. Appropriate school PE kit must be worn and please make sure hoodies and things are labelled. As winter draws near, the weather will begin to turn cold and wet, so please ensure your child has jogging bottoms, jumpers, gloves and light waterproof jackets, as learning will take place outside as much as possible.
Home Learning
Reading
The children are constantly reading throughout our curriculum and in our daily whole class reading sessions. However, to really help them progress and to support their enjoyment of reading, they should be reading at home most nights We know it is hard to fit everything in, but reading offers valuable models for sentence structure, fuels their imagination, improves their knowledge of the world and also offers them some much needed calm time. We recommended that, despite their fluency, children should read with an adult regularly to check their understanding of the text. Feel free to write in their home/school books any comments about their reading at home to share with us. There is going to be some reading events in school over the next couple of months… watch this space!
Spellings
Spellings will be in their home/school learning books each week. We will be learning these in class, including using them to support our handwriting practise. There will be a ‘test’ on Friday so it is important that your child takes times to look at these at home and try to learn them; this way they can become embedded into their work. Be creative with learning – writing out in chalk, repeating in the car, using pens in the baths – any way to engage them. Always check your child understands the meaning of their spellings as this will help to broaden their vocabulary.
Times Table Rockstars
In Year 4 (not Year 3!), the children will sit a compulsory multiplication test in the summer term, so there is a big emphasis on learning both multiplication and division facts. Even though it’s not for a while, we would like the children to feel confident and prepared. This website is a great way to practise and embed their table facts, so please try to set aside a few minutes a day to practice. The children have their logins in their home/school learning books.
Other
In the home/school learning books, I will sometimes pop some work in there that I think will help your child’s understanding with something we’re learning in school. These will be short tasks/pieces of work and it will be labelled on there when it needs to be completed by.
So far, it’s been a super start to the year and the children have been working hard on their assessments. We want all the children to be happy in school, so if you have any worries or concerns, please email the office or contact me on dojo.
Many thanks,
Miss Holt-Whittaker
Year 3 Curriculum
Year 3 Curriculum Long Term Plan
Year 3 Extra Information
Reading at home questions booklet
Learning about fractions guide
Useful Links
Maths Chase
A fun website for learning times tables
NRICH
Website full of engaging activities to encourage your child to become a competent mathematical thinker at any age
Oxford Owl
Entirely free website with lots of fun games and activities for you and your child - there is also a useful 'At School' section explaining the techniques used to teach reading within school
Purple Mash
Where to find Purple Mash resources - please ask if you require your login details