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 3 10.11.25

Fantastic home learning Staffordshire – well done! We are so impressed with your effort, enthusiasm, and progress. It’s wonderful to see you developing confidence and enjoying your learning. We can’t wait to see what you achieve as we continue exploring the rest of the foundation topics!

In Maths, we are focusing on estimating, using inverse operations, and finding complements to 100. Estimating helps children make quick, sensible guesses by rounding numbers, while inverse operations (like addition and subtraction) allow them to check their work. Complements to 100, such as 37 and 63, support quick mental maths, especially with money or change. You can help at home by asking your child to estimate totals, check answers using inverses, or practise “What goes with ___ to make 100?” These skills build strong number sense and confidence in everyday maths.

In English, we have been learning about adverbs and prepositions and how to use them in our writing. Adverbs help describe how something is done, while prepositions show where something is or when something happens. For example, adverbs can tell us that someone ran quickly or spoke loudly, and prepositions can show that a cat is under the table or a book is on the shelf. By using these in sentences, children are learning to make their writing more detailed, clear, and interesting. You can support your child at home by asking them to describe actions or places in everyday life, encouraging them to use adverbs and prepositions in their explanations or stories.

In DT (last Thursday), we had a fantastic time cooking black bean tacos! The children were able to practise important skills such as chopping and dicing, and Mrs Strudwick helped by frying the onions. Although the meal didn’t look particularly appetizing at first, the children were so brave and willing to try it – and they really enjoyed tasting their creations. It was wonderful to see them experimenting with flavours, developing their cooking skills, and gaining confidence in the kitchen (classroom).

We are all very excited to have begun rehearsals for our Christmas play! The children are already enjoying learning the songs, and we’re sure you’ll start to hear them singing at home very soon. Parts for the play will be allocated shortly, and costume details will be sent home so that everyone is ready for the big performance. Keep an eye out for updates and watch this space for more information – it’s going to be a wonderful festive event!

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. Some children said that the 4 timetable was too fast so here is an alternative for you - if you are a disney fan you will like this one! 

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 Wednesday 19th November.

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

Funny

Saggy

Dotty

Yummy

Nutty

Muddy

Boggy

Spotty

Sloppy

Sunny 

Mrs Smith's and Mrs Georgiades' groups -

Words ending in -ture

nature 

capture 

adventure 

mixture

fracture

creature 

future 

temperature

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

Here 

There 

Where 

Were 

are 

Thank you for your continued support!

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