The Year 3 Team

Home Learning

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see below.
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday.
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group.

Term 2 Week 5 WB 24/11/25

Please keep encouraging and recording your child’s reading at home. We’ve noticed a drop in reading logs over the past few weeks, and your support really makes a difference. Thank you so much for everything you do!

Excitement is mounting in Staffordshire 3 as we have begun rehearsing our Christmas play!

Please remember that costumes need to be in school on 4th December in a named carrier bag. Please ask if there are any queries about this.

Our class are the Angels, Gabriel and Mary.

Angels: plain white tshirt - long or short sleeved, plain white trousers, shorts, leggings or dress, silver or white tinsel.

Please no brand logos or writing on clothes.

In Maths, we are continuing our topic on multiplication and division. This week we have been exploring the 3 times table, revising the 2, 5 and 10 times table and will be moving on to look at the 4 and 8 times tables. Thank you for supporting this learning at home by continuing to use Times Tables Rockstars and practising times tables with your child.

In English, we are continuing our work on Ug, this week looking at speech in a text, using speech bubbles, speech marks (inverted commas) and exploring conversation through drama. We are all enjoying the comedy of this text but also exploring what it means to live in the modern age compared to the stone age.

Many of the children have been busy learning about capital cities through their home learning, and it has been wonderful to see the effort and enthusiasm they’ve put into their projects. This week, we built on this knowledge in class by using the iPads to explore Google Earth. The children were able to “fly” to different European capital cities, zoom in on famous landmarks, and compare how each city looks from above.

They particularly enjoyed spotting places such as the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum and Big Ben, and discussing what makes each landmark unique. This activity also helped us develop map-reading skills and gave the children a better understanding of how geography connects the places we read and learn about to the real world.

We are also looking forward to a special Christmas-themed author visit this Friday, which will take place during our Discovery Centre slot. The children will have the chance to listen to the author share a festive story, learn about how books are created, and ask questions about writing. It’s a lovely opportunity to inspire their creativity and get everyone even more excited for the Christmas season.

Finally, we are continuing to learn our times tables with some fun songs! Practising for just 15 minutes a week on the recommended website will make a huge difference in building strong multiplication and division skills, which are essential throughout Key Stage 2 and beyond. We have begun learning our seven timetables - here are 2 new songs you can practise your seven timetable to at home - 

7 Times Table Song | Skip Counting by 7 Song with Multiplication

Seven Times Table Song (Cups by Anna Kendrick Cover) with Classroom Instruments

3 Times Tables - Have Fun Learning!

4 Times table song (A Whole New World from Disney's Aladdin)

4 Times Table Song (APT be Rosé and Bruno Mars)

Counting By Sixes Song

The 12 Times Table Song | Skip Counting by 12 for Kids

Please could you support them in learning the following words.

Spellings

Our next test will be Weds 2nd December

Your child should know which group they are in. Please note that Mrs Charlwood's group is now led by 

Mrs Lambert. 

Mrs Hughes' /Mr Grimes'/ Mrs Strudwick's groups

adding the suffix ly

bad

badly

quick

quickly

kind

kindly

near

nearly

quiet

quietly

Mrs Smith's and Mrs Georgiades' groups -

Adding -ation to verbs to form nouns.

Plantation

Information 

Explanation 

Temptation 

Exploration

Sensation

Mrs Lambert's group ( formerly Mrs Charlwood's group)

Continued from last week:

break 

steak

great

bread

head

read

Thank you for your continued support!

Online Advent Calendar

As Advent begins this Sunday with Advent Sunday celebrated in Churches, we would like to share this online Advent Calendar with you, produced by the Diocese of Guildford. It explores the Christmas story through Christian artwork, investigating a different artist and aspect of the story throughout the term time days of Advent. Please enjoy sharing this with your family as we prepare for Christmas in school and at home.

S3 Usual weekly timetable (please note that there may be changes to this at times).

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

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

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: 

Spelling strategies

• Spelling strategies to use at home (2).pdf
• spellingwordlist_y3-4.pdf