Year 3 Friday Blog - 09/01/26

Date: 8th Jan 2026 @ 3:03pm

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.

 

Well done to all the children who have earned our weekly awards this week!

 

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 division facts related to the 4 times table.

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, we have started a new English unit based on The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We have made predictions about the story based on the front cover, we have considered how the Iron Man may have been feeling during the nfirst chapter, and we have sequenced the events of the first chapter.

Maths

This week in Maths, we have been using our multiplication tables to solve multiplication and division problems. These have involved doubling, using arrays, sorting numbers and multiplying by 10.

 

RE

This week has been multi faith week in school and we have been learning all about hinduism. This afternoon, we found out about all the different religions the other classes had been learning about. Thank you to Daya, Jake and Alice for sharing their knowledge of Hinduism with the rest of the school and parents.

 

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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