The Year 3 Team

Term 1 Week 3 WB 15/9/25

WOW Staffordshire I'm so impressed with your commitment to your TT rockstars and Boom Reader homework (thank you parents)! In our year group tournament, we are currently winning - just a small push to get to the end of the week! Keep going! It was also lovely to see so many parents at the Meet the Teacher event on Tuesday.

In Maths, we continue to explore out mini topic of place value and the number system, looking closely at tens, hundreds, and how numbers can be represented in different ways. The children have particularly enjoyed working with the base 10 (dienes) for flexi partitioning and writing the expanded form on the tables. 

In English, we have now read up to pg.10 of our class text, Quill Soup. This week we have written some character descriptions of Noko the porcupine and role played being different characters to explore Noko's thoughts and feelings.

In History we have created timelines of The Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and when the Roman came. We also learnt what BC and AD meant. In Geography we have used ipads and atlases to explore where different countries are located in the world and what a human and physical feature are.

In Science we have been learning about what a carnivore, herbivore and omnivore are and what we need in our diets to help make us healthy. This is in preparation for a fun experiment next week where we look at the fats in different foods.

A few reminders:

• PE kits (fully named) should be in school from Monday to Friday.

• Please send your child with a named waterproof jacket or coat each day.

• In Year 3, fruit snacks are provided by parents rather than school – please send a healthy snack for mid-morning.

• Children do not need pencil cases, as all stationery is provided. Please also keep soft toys and other special items at home.

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. 

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

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