Year 3 2024 - 2025

Mrs Hover

Mrs Leake

WELCOME TO YEAR 3

Summer Term - Second Half

Year 3 Team: Mrs Hover, Mrs Leake & Mrs Hilsden

Welcome back Year 3! We can’t believe we are now in our last half term of the school year! We have lots to look forward to including our residential to Tattenhall and Sports Day!

We will begin the new term by finishing our magical book, Journey and then as always, we will need to use our detective skills to find out more about our final English book. There is a little clue in the picture above! We also have a brilliant new text to read during Shared Reading which links nicely with our History and Art topic.

In Maths, we will be continuing with our unit on ‘Fractions’ and then we will look at Angles and 2D and 3D shapes. Please continue with regular times table practice at home so you are ready for Year 4. We will soon be testing you on all the times tables you have learnt which are: 2x, 5x, 10x (Year 2 times tables) and 3x, 4x and 8x (Year 3 times tables).

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In Science, we will be learning more about plants but with a focus on their structure. In our No Outsiders lessons we will be continuing with Health and Well Being including SRE.

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In the Wider Curriculum, we will be learning about Ancient Egypt in History and Art and in Computing, we will be learning further coding skills using Scratch. During French lessons, we will begin by learning the nouns for picnic foods and drinks and then move on to exploring a map of France, learning the question ‘Where do you live?’ and how to respond.

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Next half term, the children will have Gymnastics every Friday and either outdoor PE or Swimming on Wednesdays.

Swimming will take place on the following dates:

Wednesday 11th June; 25th June and 9th July (Weeks 2, 4 and 6)

Finally, we will begin our last My Happy Mind unit called ‘Engage’. This unit focuses on bringing together everything we have learnt throughout the myHappymind curriculum. We will continue to add to our class toolbox with strategies to help us when looking at the Zones of Regulation. Some of our favourite strategies are: Happy Breathing, Desk Rest, Belly Breathing, Pressure Points and making a quiet, cosy corner to enjoy a good book!

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YEAR 3 PARENTS

PE Timetable

Wednesday: Outdoor PE or Swimming Lessons

Friday: Gymnastics

Timetable (Homework)

(We try and change Reading books on most days)

Monday: Reading Records checked

Tuesday:

Wednesday: Homework due

Thursday:

Friday: Homework handed out

PPA (Planning, Preparation & Assessment Time)

On Friday mornings, Mr Bell will be teaching Gymnastics (Mrs Leake's PPA). Mrs Hover's PPA will be during Friday mornings.

Other important information

Snack - Toast is 25p a day. Please book your snack on Parent Pay for the week ahead. You could also supply your child with a piece of fruit/vegetable.

Water bottles - children should continue to bring their water bottles in daily.

Please make sure your child has a waterproof coat each day as we go outside during playtimes in most weather conditions.

Please label your child’s clothing, packed lunches and water bottles.

Homework

Homework is one task linked to our learning in school that week - either English, Maths or from the Wider Curriculum. It should take your child about 20 minutes and should be able to be completed independently or with some adult support. When your child is completing their homework, please encourage them to present their work neatly.

Homework will be set on a Friday and is due on the following Wednesday.

Reading

We love reading in Year 3. Children become better readers by practising reading as much as possible. We would encourage children to read with an adult or to be read to at home every day for 10 minutes. Children will bring home a levelled reading book that they can read with you. When children have read the book twice with an adult at home or at school, they may change it for a new book. We will also share many texts together in class in our English and Guided Reading lessons and the children can borrow a book of their choice from our reading corner to read in class or at home.

Click on the Reading tab above for lots of book ideas or come and chat to us for some book recommendations.

Times Tables

Being able to recall times table facts quickly and accurately helps children succeed in all of our Maths lessons. In Year 2, children learnt the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. In Year 3, we will be learning the 3, 4 and 8 times tables. Repetition is key to knowing the facts quickly and accurately. Please help your child at home to practise these times tables as much as they can. Questions, chanting and Times Tables Rockstars are all good ways to learn (regular short bursts are the best way!) Click on the Maths tab above for further games.