Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
Mrs Wriglesworth is the class teacher and Mr Ellis is the teaching assistant in Year 3. Other adults who will be working with Class 3 this year are Mrs Vincent and Mrs Morris.
On this page, you will find information about Class 3, including news, photographs of things we've done and more!
Termly Newsletters & Information
Year 3 Spring 1 Newsletter 2026.pdf
Year 3 Autumn 2 Newsletter 2025.pdf
Year 3 Autumn 1 Newsletter.pdf
Year 3 Common Exception Word List
Year 2 Common Exception Word List
Year 1 Common Exception Word List
Reminders
Arrival and Collection Times
All children should enter and leave school via their external classroom door.
All children should arrive between 8.45am – 8.55am.
All children should be collected at 3.20pm.
Breakfast Club & After School Club - Children should arrive as normal and be taken to Breakfast Club room. They will be taken to their Classroom ready for lessons. Breakfast Club will be open from 7.45am. After School Club will be open until 5.45pm.
Stationery
It would be great if you could provide your child with a small, practical pencil case containing the following equipment:
- Ruler
- Glue stick
- Rubber
- HB pencil
- Pencil sharpener
- Set of colouring pencils
We will provide this equipment where required.
P.E.
Children in Class 3 will need to ensure that their P.E. Kit is in school on Mondays and Thursdays. P.E. kits should consist of:
- Navy shorts
- School house colour T-shirt (not brightly coloured and / or patterned T-shirts)
- White, navy or grey socks
- Trainers (for outdoor use only)
- Tracksuit (optional for cold weather)
Link to School Uniform /P.E. Kit Expectations Page
Spellings
Every Friday, your child will be taught a new spelling rule to practise during the week, ready for a spelling test on the following Friday. Please spend time at home practising these spellings using ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’ in the Spelling Homework Booklets, as well as discussing the spelling rule. Please ensure spelling Homework Books are kept in school bags. You also have a Spelling Shed login for use to further practise spellings at home.
Spelling Shed - https://www.edshed.com/en-us/Login
Your child's weekly spelling list will be uploaded to Spelling Shed for further practise. Log ins can be found in the front of your child's reading record.
Reading Record
Please use your child’s reading record to keep a record of the books your child reads and to enter a comment about their reading. These may be books they have brought home from school, ones they have borrowed from the library or an e-library book. This record will help us to know what your child can do and inform us about the range of books they have read. We will also write in the record when your child has read in school and provide an appropriate next step for them to practise, e.g. a particular tricky word or grapheme
English
In Year 3, children continue to learn to write different types of texts and we use model texts to highlight the key features of these texts before children create their own versions. The table below highlights the text types and texts that we will be learning in Year 3.
|
Date |
Text Type |
Text Title |
|
01.9.25 |
Overcoming the Baddie Story - Narrative |
Jack and the Beanstalk |
| 29.9.25 |
Instructions - Non-narrative |
How to Mummify a Pharaoh |
| 10.11.25 |
Book Review - Non-narrative |
Flat Stanley and The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery |
| 01.12.25 |
Warning Story - Narrative |
The Canal |
| 05.1.26 |
Adventure Story - Narrative |
Kassim and the Greedy Dragon |
| 26.1.26 |
Non-chronological Report - Non-narrative |
The Manchester Ridgeback |
| 23.2.26 |
Journey Story - Narrative |
The Magic Bed |
| 16.3.26 | Poetry |
The Sound Collector There's a Monster in the Garden |
| 13.4.26 |
Newspaper Recount - Non-narrative |
Golden Ticket Glory! |
| 11.5.26 |
Wishing Tale - Narrative |
The King of the Fishes |
| 01.6.26 |
Persuasive Letter - Non-narrative |
Circus letter |
| 06.7.26 | Recount - Non-narrative | An Egyptian Visitor |
Example texts for use at home
How to Mummify a Pharaoh.doc.pdf
Galaxy Jack - Journey to Juno.pdf
Kassim and the Greedy Dragon.pdf
There's a Monster in the Garden.pdf
Maths
As a school, we place emphasis on teaching Maths using a Maths Mastery approach. We place emphasis on children learning to develop their fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills. We use Maths No Problem Maths Textbooks and Workbooks in school. To find out more, visit https://mathsnoproblem.com/en/parent-videos/ to watch parent videos all about how we teach Maths at St Luke's.
The table below highlights the textbook and chapters that we are learning in Year 3. If you wish to purchase a copy of the Maths No Problem Textbook A and B and Workbook A and B for your year group for use at home and also find out more about how Maths is taught in school, these are available to order at https://mathsnoproblem.com/mathematics/primary
We ask all parents to support children with learning their number bonds and times tables at home; this is key to children being successful as Mathematicians.
Please remember to log in to Hit the Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
IXl: https://uk.ixl.com/signin/stlukesprimary
Times Tables Rockstars: https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/teacher
|
Date |
Focus Textbook Chapter and Title |
| 01.9.25 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 1 - Numbers to 1000 |
| 15.9.25 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 2 - Addition and Subtraction |
| 10.11.25 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 3 - Multiplication and Division |
| 01.12.25 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 4 - Further Multiplication and Division |
| 12.1.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 5 - Length |
| 02.2.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 6 - Mass |
| 09.2.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 7 - Volume |
| 16.2.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3A - Mid Year revision |
| 23.2.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 8 - Money |
| 09.3.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 9 - Time |
| 23.3.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 10 - Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs |
| 13.4.26 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 11 - Fractions |
| 27.4.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 12 - Angles |
| 04.5.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 13 - Lines and Shapes |
| 18.5.26 |
Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 14 - Perimeter of Figures |
| 08.6.26 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - End of Year Revision and assessments |
Reading
During the year, we will use a range of texts to develop our reading skills and read stories written by a range of authors. The texts we will use are detailed in the document below.
The first book we will be reading in the Autumn term is 'Flat Stanley The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery' by S. Pennypacker.
Our Class Country is Italy
Throughout the year, we will be learning all about Italy. We will investigate where it is in the world and find out facts about what it is like to live in Italy.