Welcome to Year 3!
Miss Francis is the class teacher and Mrs Watson is the teaching assistant. On this page, you will find information about Class Three, news, pictures of things we've done and more.
Reminders
Arrival and Collection Times
We are continuing to use our one-way system to enter and exit school in September, entering and leaving via their external classroom door.
All children should arrive between 8.45am – 8.55am.
Children in Year R, 1,3, 5 and 6 should be collected at 3.25pm
Children in Year 2 and 4 should be collected at 3.20pm.
Breakfast Club & After School Club
Children in Year R, 1 to 6 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:
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 Monday and Wednesday. P.E. kits should consist of:
Link to School Uniform /P.E. Kit Expectations Page
Spellings
Every Monday, your child will be taught a new spelling rule to practise during the week, ready for a spelling test on 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 now 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 are learning in Year 3.
Date | Text Type | Text Title |
5th September 2022 | Overcoming the Baddie Story - Narrative | Jack and the Beanstalk |
26th September 2022 | Instructions - Non-narrative | How to Mummify a Pharaoh |
31st October 2022 | Book Review - Non-narrative | Galaxy Jack: Journey to Juno |
22nd November 2022 | Warning Story - Narrative | The Canal |
3rd January 2023 | Adventure Story - Narrative | Kassim and the Greedy Dragon |
23rd January 2023 | Non-chronological Report - Non-narrative | The Manchester Ridgeback |
20th February 2023 | Journey Story - Narrative | The Magic Bed |
20th March 2023 | Poetry | The Sound Collector There's a Monster in the Garden |
17th April 2023 | Newspaper Recount - Non-narrative | Golden Ticket Glory! |
8th May 2023 | Wishing Tale - Narrative | The King of the Fishes |
5th June 2023 | Persuasive Letter - Non-narrative | Circus letter |
26th June 2023 | Recount - Non-narrative | An Egyptian Visitor |
Please download the texts and story maps and practise retelling them. Aim to retell the texts with actions and expression!
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 |
5th September 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 1 - Numbers to 1000 |
15th September 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 2 - Addition and Subtraction |
14th November 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 3 - Multiplication and Division |
5th December 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 4 - Further Multiplication and Division |
16th January 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Revision 1 |
18th January 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 5 - Length |
26th January 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 6 - Mass |
31st January 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 7 - Volume |
3rd February 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Revision 2 |
7th February 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Mid Year revision |
20th February 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 8 - Money |
28th February 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 9 - Time |
14th March 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 10 - Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs |
20th March 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Revision 3 |
22nd March 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 11 - Fractions |
24th April 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 12 - Angles |
27th April 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 13 - Lines and Shapes |
5th May 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 14 - Perimeter of Figures |
29th May 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Revision 4 |
1st June 2023 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - End of Year Revision |
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.
Currently, we are reading 'There's a Pharaoh in our Bath!' by Jeremy Strong.
Our Class Country is Italy.
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.