The Year 3 Team

Spirituality Home Learning Project

Please see this document for details of an exciting whole school project that we would like the children and families to take part in for home learning over the half term break. 

We would like children to bring their findings in to school by Wednesday 29​​^th October please.

• Home Learning Oct 25.docx

Term 2 Week 2 29.10.25

Thank you all for your wonderful support with our Spirituality Leaf Project! The children have really enjoyed sharing their leaves, telling their stories, and explaining where they found them. It’s been lovely to see how proud they are of their creations.

In Maths, we’re continuing to work on different strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems. This week, we’ve been learning about column addition and subtraction, including how to cross tens. This can be a bit tricky, so any extra practice or encouragement at home would be very helpful—thank you!

In English, we’ve started exploring our new class text, Ug by Raymond Briggs. The children are loving the comic book format and using what they already know about the Stone Age to bring the story to life. It’s been great to see their enthusiasm and sense of humour shine through as we read together.

In Science, we’ve been learning about muscles and how they help us move. The children made their own model arm joints using split pins and discovered how muscles contract and relax to make movement possible.

In History, we’ve been learning about the Beaker Folk — a fascinating group of people who lived in Western Europe around 2800–2200 BC. They’re best known for their distinctive bell-shaped pots, which they used for cooking and drinking. To bring this learning to life, the children created their own bell-shaped pots using salt dough. Once they’re fully dry in a couple of weeks, we’ll be painting them to complete the project!

In French, we wrapped up our greetings unit by making adorable finger puppets and using them to practise our conversations. The children impressed us with their confidence and growing fluency — they’re well on their way to becoming bilingual!

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

This week, we have started giving each child their own set of spellings to learn. Your child should know which adult they are working with. Please could you support them in learning the following words.

Spellings

Our next spelling test will take place on Wednesday 5th November.
Your child knows which group they are in. Please note that Mrs Lambert is now leading the group previously taught by Mrs Charlwood.

Mrs Hughes’ / Mr Grimes’ / Mrs Strudwick’s groups:

• race

• rice

• face

• icy

• exercise

• city

• cell

• mice

• fancy

• cycle

Mrs Smith’s and Mrs Georgiades’ groups:

Adding the suffix - ous

• fabulous

• nervous

• jealous

• famous

• generous

Mrs Lambert’s group (formerly Mrs Charlwood’s):

• 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