Welcome to Year 3!
Welcome to our class page. Here you will find some information that you may find useful.
We will do our very best to update this page on a regular basis and here you will find useful website links, top tips and most importantly, dates for your diary! There is also a photo gallery so that you can see what we have been up to.
The Year 3 Team
Year 3A – Mrs Eames
Year 3B – Miss Barnes
Teaching Assistant & Support Staff – Mrs Sanderson & Mrs Pell
Midday Supervisor – Miss Hazelwood-Tett
Useful Information
PE Day – Monday
Reading Diaries – Reading diaries should be in school every day. Please ensure that you, or your child, sign the reading record every time it is read. The children may not be able to change their book if their reading record is not signed.
Book Changing – There are two reading schemes in our school. Read, Write Inc ‘Book Bag Books’ will be changed on Friday. Big Cat books will be changed when the child has finished it.
If you have any problems or questions, please do get in contact via ‘Class Dojo’. We are more than happy to help!
Class Book
The Wild Robot (3B)
The Boy Who Grew Dragons (3A)
Homework in Year 3
On a weekly basis, we expect the children to complete the following activities.
Reading – 3 times at least per week.
Times Tables Rockstars – The children are expected to log on to Numbots or Times Tables Rockstars during the week.
Knowledge Organiser – To learn the information given for the term and be able to answer questions from it (when this is appropriate).
Spellings – Children who are accessing the RWI Spelling Programme will be expected to learn a set of spellings each week. They will be sent home on a Friday and the children will be quizzed on them the following Friday.
If there are any other activities that are set, we will inform you through ‘Seesaw’ and ‘Class Dojo’.
The Year 3 Curriculum
Term Three
Below are some of our other learning themes and key questions.
History: The Ancient Civilisations – When were they and what did they achieve?
Geography: Rio and South East Brazil
D&T: Food – Can I make a healthy cereal bar?
RE: What is The Trinity?
Music: Charanga – Glockenspiels
PE: Hockey and Gymnastics
Computing: Sequencing sounds
French: Animals and musical instruments
Art: Drawing and sculpture – creating a clay sculpture
Dates for your diary:
12th January 2026 – KS1 and KS2 Disco
13th February 2026 – Internet Safety
Useful Website Links
Times Tables Rockstars – Your child’s username and password is in their reading diary.
Numbots – A fantastic resource to develop addition and subtraction facts. Your child’s username and password and password is in their reading diaries.
https://polypad.amplify.com/ – Maths Resources
Hit the Button – A great resource to speed up maths fluency.
Maths Frame – Interactive maths games.
