Year 3 Friday Blog - 17.04.26

Date: 16th Apr 2026 @ 3:41pm

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 a mixture of times tables and division facts related to the 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 8x and 10x 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

In English this week, we have started reading a new story called the Golden Eagle. This story is set in the stone age, and we have spent this week reading the story and learning the meanings of some of the new words used in the story. Can you remember what all of these words mean?

Maths

In Maths, we have been using column addition and column subtraction. We have used these methods to solve lots of different problems, including some missing number problems.

Can you use column subtraction to solve this question?

Geography

This half term in Geography, we are going to be learning more about our local area. This week, we started by drawing a sketch map of the area around our school. 

What can you spot on this map of Euxton that you included on your sketch maps?

RE

In RE, we are thinking about changes to help us answer our big question - How did/does Jesus change lives?

This week, we thought about changes we have experienced in our lives. What other changes might you experience in your life that you haven't exprienced yet?

 

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 3 team

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