Welcome to Year 3!

For Term 2, PE is on a Tuesday and Thursday morning.

Please send your child's PE kit in on Monday, it will be sent home each Friday. Please make sure your child's clothing and shoes are named.

As the weather is now turning colder please ensure that your child has PE joggers and a jumper as we will still be going outside. Please provide socks for PE if your child wears tights. 

Week beginning 13.1.25

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to visit the church and deepened our understanding of the Holy Trinity. The children had a wonderful time searching for symbols of "three" within the church, connecting their learning to the environment around them.

In Maths, we focused on dividing two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers. The children showed great resilience as they worked through these problems and made impressive progress in their division skills.

In English, our lessons are continuing to be based on Ice Palace. The class wrote diary entries from the perspective of the villagers, using empathy and imagination to bring their writing to life. They were focusing on the different feelings and emotions the villagers would feel at different times of year. 

A typical week in Devon 3: 

Home Learning

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

We recommend children in Year 3 read for at least 20 minutes a day.  Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Spelling

Spellings will be tested in class every Wednesday. 

Blue group (Mrs Nash, Miss Owen & Mrs Charlwood)

actually

imagine

minute

question

special

appear

guide

separate

enough

exercise 

Red group (Mrs Whitmore)

Painful

hopeful

helpful

thoughtful

wonderful

thankful

cheerful

delightful

colourful

Purple group (Mrs Smith)

nearly

slowly

quickly

quietly

weakly

week

Below is a list of the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4 (please see attachment).

The spelling strategies document below shows what strategies are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: