Welcome to Year 3!

Teaching Team

Jasper Class – Ms Rodgers, Mrs Talmage and Mrs Bate

Turquoise Class – Mrs Richardson, Mrs Talmage and Mrs Dawson

We hope you are getting used to the new routines.

Here are a few reminders for you.

Please see the link at the bottom for information regarding the Year 3 Sleepover on 19th June 2026. 

Accelerated Reader – Each child performed a ‘Star’ test at the start of term to gauge their level for AR. This is written on their bookmark – Please try not to lose these! AR log ins have been sent home. Your child may quiz at home and at school when time allows. Please encourage your child to tell us if they need a quiz resetting if they don’t pass it.

Red spelling / times tables books should ideally come to school each day but especially on Tuesdays and Fridays

Spelling tests – Tuesdays

Times Tables checker – Fridays (no longer times table mountain, nothing will be sent home)

For at times table home practice, check out these links to the BBC: Times Tables and MTC. We will be using MTC in class on Fridays to check times tables.

To practice at home: click on the MTC link, press play game, then click 'Adjust difficulty' where you can select which timetable you want to practice and the time between each question. Set the time to 10 seconds per question, 25 questions. We will be focusing on the 2s, 5s, 10s, 4s, and 8s times table this half-term, but you are welcome to practice beyond that. 

 

Home learning in Year 3

Daily reading AR or RWI book

Times table practice 

Spelling practice

Handwriting practice

Please spend time practising tying your shoelaces and telling the time over half term. If you would like to create a poster about Islam we would love to see them! Deadline for these will be 15th June.

!!!NEW!!!

Oracy home learning:Turning the tables on the teachers!

We would like you to teach us something new! Prepare a short speech about a hobby or place you have visited. See the documents for your timetabled slot. Practise at home to build your confidence.

 

Forest school – alternate Fridays

Turquoise Class starting 12th June

Jasper Class starting 19th June

Please ensure your child has wellies and waterproofs in school for their Forest School days. With the warmer weather please ensure your child is wearing long-lasting SPF and has a sun hat and water bottle on these days, as well as long sleeves and legs to avoid scrapes when climbing etc! 

PE days are Mondays and Fridays. Please come in PE kit on these days.

 

What we're learning

English: 

• Writing biographies and a comic strip about a 'romance' where central characters are umbrellas!
• Guided reading - poetry
• SPAG - commas in phrases and clauses, present perfect tense, prefixes and suffixes, common exception words, writing paragraphs.

Maths

• Perimeter, perpendicular and parallel lines, shape. Continuing to build on quick-fire mental arithmetic and recall of times tables facts.

We look forward to working with you on your child’s Year 3 journey. Any questions, please just ask a member of the team, and we will do our best to help you!