Year 3 - Friday Blog - 2nd October
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 5:39pm
Welcome to the Year 3 Friday blog!
We have had another busy and great week in Year 3, getting stuck into our learning. We intend to keep you up to date with all the things going on in our class through this blog. Please read the guidance on mornings, home time and safety in PE at the bottom of this page.
Awards
Homework
Spelling
Reading
Reading is a very important part of the curriculum and plays a key role in supporting children's learning and development. This week, the children have been sent home with a reading book to enjoy. Once they have finished reading their book and their reading record has been signed, they can have their book changed. The children have been reminded to let an adult know when they are ready for a new book. We encourage all children to read regularly at home, as this helps to develop their fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and confidence.
Times tables
The children will continue to use TT Rockstars to practice there times tables knowledge. The use of times tables is key to the maths curriculum and the children will gain so much from being able to recite their tables at speed.
English
This week in English, we have continued exploring villains through The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. We became detectives this week! We explored the difference between facts and predictions when retrieving information. After watching Jasper and Horace steal the puppies, we thought carefully about the questions a detective might ask to investigate the crime. The children then took part in some fantastic role play, taking turns to become detectives and Cruella de Vil. Using their carefully prepared questions, our detectives interviewed Cruella and tried to catch her out by listening closely to her answers and looking for clues!
We then put our poetry skills to the test for poetry day and created our very own villain poems, inspired by You’re a Mean One, Mr Grinch. The children used rhyming words and powerful adjectives to emphasise just how nasty, gruesome and unpleasant their villains were! We had some wonderfully imaginative descriptions and really enjoyed bringing our villainous characters to life through poetry.
Finally, we began exploring how authors create suspense and keep their readers on the edge of their seats. We identified some of the key features of suspense writing, including short sentences, questions, powerful verbs and time adverbials. The children experimented with these techniques and began thinking about how they can use them to build tension in their own writing.
We will continue developing our suspense-writing skills next week, putting everything we have learned into practice. Another fantastic week of creativity, questioning and dramatic role play in Year 3 English – well done, everyone!
Maths
Length, Perimeter and Statistics
This week in Maths, we continued our learning about length and perimeter. We started the week by exploring how to calculate the perimeter of different 2D shapes. The children carefully measured the sides of shapes and used their addition skills to find the total distance around the outside.
We also spent some time revisiting fact families with numbers up to 100. This gave us a great opportunity to recap and consolidate our understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction. The children used their number knowledge to find related facts and worked hard to explain the connections they noticed.
Towards the end of the week, we began our new unit on Statistics. We started by looking at bar charts and explored how information can be presented and interpreted using them. The children practised carefully reading the information shown and answering questions using the data.
Next week, we will continue developing our Statistics skills and explore different ways of representing and interpreting data. Another busy week of Maths in Year 3!