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.

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 practise 

Spelling practise

Handwriting practise

 

Forest school – alternate Fridays

Turquoise Class starting 6th March 

Jasper Class starting 27th February 

Please ensure your child has wellies and waterproofs in school for their Forest School days. With the colder weather, please ensure your child will be suitably dressed for a morning outside. We encourage hats and gloves to keep them warm. 

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

• Money - how to identify, count, add, subtract, and calculate change.

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!