Year 3 Friday Blog - 03/10/25

Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 2:42pm

Dear parents,

Welcome to the Year 3 Friday blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings and times tables and lots more.

Harvest Worship

Thank you to everyone who came to watch our harvest worship this week, and thank you for your kind food donations for Living Waters food bank.

500 Words Competition

Last week, we took part in a Live Lesson to launch BBC's 500 word story competition. The children came up with lots of ideas for characters, settings and words to use in their stories.

If you would like some more information about the competition, or to submit your entries, please click the image below.

 

Homework

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Remember to ask questions as this will improve key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference. Children should also have their school reading books in school every day so that an adult can read with them.

 

Spellings - For our spelling quizzes this year, there will be a list of 10 words sent home to learn. These words will all follow a spelling rule that we are learning in class that week. Our spelling quiz each Thursday will then consist of 8 of these words as well as 2 words the children have previously learned. As homework, each child should  log into Spelling Shed and complete this weeks assignment using the link below.

          Times tables - Times tables are a vital skill, which will be used throughout the year and through the rest of the childrens school journeys and lives. In order to prepare every child as well as we can, we ask that children log in to times table rockstars as many days as possible each week. On there, the children can practise all of their times tables by playing different games.

We will also have a times tables quiz each week. Next week, we will test the 10 times tables in a random order.

I will be keeping track of all children logging into both Spelling Shed and TT Rockstars. I recommend 10 minutes on both, as many nights as possible. If you are struggling to find time to log in to Spelling Shed or TT Rockstars on a device, please find alternative ways of practising our weekly spellings and times tables, such as verbal tests/chanting in the car, or using one of the attached spelling strategies.

An overview for spellings and times tables can be found at the bottom of the blog. 

 

Our learning this week in Year 3

English

Yesterday was national poetry day, so we have learned a poem called 'Word Play' by Michaela Morgan. Today, we performed our chosen poem for Year 5.

Maths

This week in Maths, we have learned how to add two 2 digit numbers and two 3 digit numbers together using column addition.

Can you use column addition to work out the answer to this question?

 

Science

This week in Science, we learned the names of some of the bones in the human body.

How many of these can you remember?

Have a look at our gallery to see some more pictures from our harvest worship.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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