Year 3 Friday Blog - 26/09/25

Date: 23rd Sep 2025 @ 4:02pm

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!

Meet the Teacher

Thank you to everyone who attended our meet the teacher session this week. The slides are atteached at the bottom of this week's blog so that you have all the information shared.

500 Words Competition

This week, we took part in a Live Lesson to launch BBC's 500 word story competition. The children came up with lots of ideas for characters, settings and words to use in their stories.

If you would like some more information about the competition, or to submit your entries, please click the image below.

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 2 times tables in a random order.

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 the day the crayons quit. Whilst reading, we thought about what persuasive language had been used in the story. We have also formed opinions about each of the crayons and collected adjectives used in the story.