Year 3 Friday Blog - 12/09/25

Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 3:55pm

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 the 10 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 read some more fables. We have been focussing on the ant and the grasshopper, creating story maps to help us remember the fable. Next week, we will be writing our own versions of this fable with new characters.

Maths

This week in Maths, we have continued our learning about place value. We started the week by adding and subtracting 10s and 100s to and from numbers, before moving on to some work on number sequences.

Here is one of the questions we answered. Can you identify the missing numbers?

RE

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

This week, we started practising our Harvest worship.

Science

This week in Science, we have learned all about food chains. We now know that plants make their own food using sunlight - this makes them producers. Animals are consumers because they eat other things - sometimes plants, sometimes other animals.

 

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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