Welcome to Year 3!

Each week we'll be keeping you up to date with our weekly blog. In addition to this, please read our half-termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 3. 

Important information

PE - Monday and Friday. Please come to school in your PE kit on these days and these days only. 

Books - Change books on Wednesday. Your child will come home with 2 new reading books and a library book every Wednesday. Please make sure you have been reading at home at least three times a week. Please record any reading you have done in your reading diary. Your reading diary must always be in your bookbag so that we can read with you in school. 

Spellings - New spellings will be sent home every Friday. Please make sure your child's spelling book is in their bookbag on Friday so that the new ones can be stuck in.  Please also see our spelling page where you can easily access this every week. Please use your spelling book to practice them in. If there is evidence of practising, your child will receive a green point. They will also receive a green point if they have achieved full marks or improved their score from the previous week. Please also check which spellings have been marked as incorrect as these will still need to be practised.

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Year Three End of Year Expectations

This table provides information for parents and carers on the end of year expectations for children in our school. All the objectives will be worked on throughout the year and will be the focus of teaching. Any extra support you can provide in helping your children to achieve these is greatly valued. If you have any queries regarding the content of this booklet, please talk to your child’s teacher.

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Autumn 1

 

Week 2

Miss Martin was extremely impressed with how many children achieved 10 out of 10 on their spellings this week—well done to everyone who worked so hard! Let’s keep up this amazing effort and aim for even more perfect scores next week. 

In History, we’ve had a really fun and unforgettable lesson to kick off our new topic on The Stone Age. Miss Martin brought in a toilet roll to help us visualise just how long ago the Stone Age began. Each square on the roll represented 1,000 years. As we carefully unrolled it, we estimated when the Stone Age might have started. By the time we reached the end, we were amazed to learn that we still hadn’t gone back far enough, we would need two more rolls to represent the full 900,000 years ago that the Stone Age began! Our minds were truly blown! It was a brilliant way to make history come alive. 

In Reading, we’ve started exploring our new class text, "Stig of the Dump". Before we even opened the first page, we practised our reading skill of predicting and asking questions, using just the front cover and the blurb. It really got us thinking and wondering what the story might hold.

We've also started reading "The Stone Age Boy", which we’ll be using as inspiration in our Writing lessons. We’ve been learning about prepositions and conjunctions, which will help us write brilliant sentences. Everyone has shown great teamwork during group discussions and activities.

Let’s keep working hard, helping each other, and having fun as we continue our journey through the Stone Age!

Week 1

What a fantastic first week we’ve had in Year 3! The classroom has been buzzing with excitement as we’ve been getting everything set up for an amazing year ahead.

We began by working together to create our Class Contract. Everyone contributed their ideas about how we can make our classroom a safe, happy, and respectful place to learn. 

Our classroom roles were launched too, with everyone given the chance to become a classroom monitor and take responsibility for helping our learning space run smoothly. We discussed our expectations and agreed that working together is the best way to achieve success.

We loved  listening to Miss Martin’s favourite stories. One book in particular, The Book With No Pictures, had us all in stitches, we enjoyed it so much we made her read it twice!

We’ve also spent time learning about our Zones of Regulation. We explored how we can recognise our feelings, what our triggers and sparks are, and how it’s perfectly okay to be in different zones at different times of the day. We’re already getting better at recognising our emotions and thinking about helpful ways to respond.

We’ve made a super start and can’t wait to keep building on this strong foundation. Here’s to a year of Enjoying, Believing, Achieving and doing it all Together!