Welcome to Year 3 - 2025 - 2026

Spring Term Headlines 

• Reading books and red reading records are to be in school every day.
• PE kits are to be in school every day. Our PE lessons for this half term will be on Tuesday and Friday. 
• Water bottles to be brought into school every day, they will all be sent home on Fridays.
• As you know our British weather is very unpredictable, so please always send your child to school with a raincoat.  
• Fruit or vegetables can be brought in to be eaten for snack at morning playtime. 
• You can still register for your child to have milk in the same way as Key Stage One should you wish to.

Key Dates Spring Term
W/c Mon 9th February- Children’s Mental Health Week
Fri 13th February- Break up for Half-Term

HALF TERM

Mon 23rd February- Children return to school
W/c Mon 2nd March- Book Fair
Thurs 5th March- World Book Day
W/c Mon 9th March- Science Week
Tues 24th March- Parents’ Meetings 3.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Wed 25th March- Parents’ Meetings 3.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Thurs 26th March- Easter Church Service – 9:15 am
Thurs 26th March- Easter Bonnet Parade – 11 am
Fri 27th March- Term ends (INSET Day for staff)

You can find out more about our curriculum this term in the Curriculum Information below.

Daily Essentials.

Times Tables - Please practise your times tables focusing on improving the efficiency of your answers. The aim is for all children in Year 3 to know the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 times tables by the end of the year. Suggested websites include Hit the Button and Daily 10 (both found on Top Marks) and Monster Multiplication and Multiplication check (both found on Purple Mash) . We also recommend the apps 1 Minute Maths White Rose and DK Times Tables. We have weekly tests to identify times tables that can be improved with targeted intervention. Children should practise using whichever method works best for them. We also like to sing along to the times table songs on Supermovers the website is below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-6-times-table-with-fred-the-red/zrq3xyc

Spelling - Please learn your spellings which are tested every three weeks in school.  We will recommend a range of different activities to help with learning spellings but it is important that you find an activity that works for you. Below is a website with some fun activities to practise your Year 3 spellings.

 https://spellingframe.co.uk/

Reading - Please read regularly, both aloud to an adult and to yourself. Please read a range of different styles of texts. Below is a recommended reading list for Year 3 children. If you finish your school reading book read a book from home, or you could even listen to  an audio book. 

Handwriting-

Practise forming your letters correctly and the handwriting joins on the handwiting paper using the handwriting guide in the documents section. 

For more information on the Year 3 curriculum, please see the documents below:

The kind donations from Year 3 families have now been wrapped up and delivered to the Operation Christmas appeal. We sent six shoeboxes in total and will find out in January where they were delivered to. Thank you to everybody who donated. 

Year 3 were wonderful for showing determination to complete their 25 laps of the hall for their 'challenge 25' to help raise funds for Children in Need. Well done Year 3 we are all very proud of you!