Year 3 Friday Blog - 05/09/25

Date: 3rd Sep 2025 @ 4:04pm

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.

Welcome back to school to our brand new Year 3 class! We are really looking forward to teaching you this year and are so proud of how you have started this week.

 

End of Day Procedure

To ensure the safety of all children, we would like to remind everyone of our end of day procedures. 

Could all Year 3 parents please wait on the map in front of the canopy, so that the Year 3 staff can see you easily.

If you need to speak to a member of staff, please wait until all children have been dismissed.

Children will be asked to wait inside the classroom until a member of Year 3 staff has seen someone to collect them. Please do not attempt to rush your child as this could result in children being missed.

If your child is being collected by somebody different, please inform the school office.

If your child is not attending after school club, please inform after school club.

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 2 times tables.

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

This week in English, we have been reading some fables. A fable is a short story with a lesson we can learn from it. In groups, we have read some different fables and then acted them out for the rest of the class.

Maths

This week in Maths, we have been learning about place value. We started the week using base 10 to play the exchange game, before moving on to answering some questions about numbers made with base 10, place value counters and arrow cards.

Here is one of the questions we answered. What number do these place value counters make?

RE

This week in RE, we have started learning about harvest. Our big question this half term is 'How do people of faith say thank you to God for the harvest?'

We started our new unit by thinking about our own experiences of harvest and considering why we celebrate harvest.

Geography

This week in Geography, we started our new topic all about tropical rainforests. We started by learning about the equator and the tropics of cancer and capricorn.

Can you remember the latitude locations of the tropic of cancer, the tropic of capricorn and the equator?

Have a look at our gallery to see what we have been doing in maths this week.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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