Welcome to Year 3!

Class Teachers:
       

Mr Cranstone and Mrs Hawley

Teaching Assistant:

Miss Hall

Mr Cranstone teaches Year 3 Monday to Wednesday and Mrs Hawley teaches Year 3 on Thursdays and Fridays.

Key Information

• PE Lessons: Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Please make sure that your child comes in with the appropriate kit at the start of each half term and that each item is clearly labelled. PE kits will be sent home at the end of every half term for washing unless specified otherwise.

• Reading Records - Checked every Monday morning.

Children need to be reading every day (minimum of 3 times a week) for 20 minutes, with one entry signed off by an adult. We suggest this be the last entry before records are checked in school.

If you would like to support with the development of your child's comprehension, please ask them questions about what they have read and discuss their answers with them - what did they learn/find out; how did they reach an answer; what led them to their conclusion?

• Spelling - Our new approach.

Each week will have a different spelling focus; for example, adding the -s suffix to root/base words ending with a y or the /ow/ sound spelt 'ou'.

Each week, on a Monday the children will be taught the week's focus rule. They will then complete an independent task on a Tuesday and have a revision session on a Wednesday. On Wednesdays, your child will then be sent home with a homework sheet that can be used to check and secure their understanding. Please help your child complete this task (it does not all have to be done at the same time, you could do a section a day) and return it with their reading record on a Monday.

• Times-Tables - Please practice regularly.

At the end of Year 4, the children will complete the statutory assessment of their tables knowledge. By the end of Year 3, children are expected to be fluent with the following tables: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10.

We hope the children will also have started, or be confident with, the 6's and 9's by the time they move into Year 4.

Spring Term

Happy New Year!

We are going to start 2026 by diving into the book 'Flotsam' written by David Wiesner. It is a wordless book with detailed illustrations about a discovery of an underwater camera with its own secrets to share.

We are also going to increase our knowledge about the harm of plastic pollution to our world!

Year 3 will be map experts at locating a number of towns and cities in the UK and comparing localities. In RE, they will be learning about the Sikh religion and we look forward to welcoming a visitor who will share their Sikh faith with the class. In Science, we will be exploring how a magnetic force can act at a distance and we will practically enquire through fair testing, how magnets attract or repel some materials. 

 May the force be with you, Year 3!