Year 3 Friday Blog - 12/12/25
Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 12:14pm
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.
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Well done to all the children who have earned our weekly awards this week!
Christmas Donations
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Rainbow Raffle
- Reception: Red
- Y1: Orange
- Y2: Yellow
- Y3: Green
- Y4: Blue
- Y5: Purple
- Y6: Pink
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.
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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 a mix of the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
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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.
Carol Singing
Thank you to everyone that came to support the children as they sang carols on Tuesday and Wednesday with Year 4.
We hope you enjoyed it!
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Our learning this week in Year 3
English
This week, we have been writing our own versions of the green child folk tale.
Once we had planned and written our folk tales, we then used one of our oracy activities to read them to each other.
Have a look at our gallery to see the rest of the pictures.
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Maths
This week in Maths, we have been using different methods to add and subtract numbers.
Have a go at this question using the compensation method.
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RE
This week in RE, we have been thinking about the trinity. Today, we came up with metaphors to describe the trinity as three in one.
Some people think of the trinity as a Twix. What other exanples can you think of?
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Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 3 team
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