Year 3 Friday Blog - 16.05.25

Date: 15th May 2025 @ 3:30pm

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.

Courageous Advocacy: Water Walk

This year, our school council have been looking at ways we can save water as a school as well as helping charities such as Water Aid to deliver clean water to other countries. As part of this theme, the school council have organised a water walk on Wednesday 21st May. This will involve all children walking around our daily mile track whilst carrying containers of water. There has been a sponsorship form sent home with your child to raise money for Water Aid.

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 half term, there will be a list of 12 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 still log into SpellingFrame and complete this weeks test 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 3 and 4 times tables.

I will be keeping track of all children logging into both Spelling Frame 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 SpellingFrame 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 writing our own versions of the wonderful smells play. We had a go at writing scene 2, using our plans to help, before planning and writing scene 3 independently.

Maths

This week, we have been learning about division. We have used the chunking method to solve lots of different division problems.

See if you can work out the answer to this problem.

RE

In RE this half term, our big question is 'How does Jesus change lives?'. This week, we have learned about Robert Prevost, whose life has changed recently as he has become the new pope.

Computing

We have been learning about branching databases in computing, and this week, we created our own branching databases about animals using 2Question on purple mash.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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