Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
Miss Francis is the class teacher and Miss Somaraki is the teaching assistant. On this page, you will find information about Class Three, news, pictures of things we've done and more.
Termly Newsletters & Information
Reminders
Arrival and Collection Times
Children should use the one-way system to enter and exit school, entering and leaving via their external classroom door.
Children in Year R, 2 and 4 are expected to arrive between 8.45am-8.55am and be collected between 3.15pm and 3.25pm
Children in Year 1,3, 5 and 6 are expected to arrive between 8.50am-9.00am and be collected between 3.20pm and 3.30pm.
Where siblings are in classes with different arrival and collection times, they should arrive at 8.50am and 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: a ruler, glue stick, a rubber, a HB pencil and pencil sharpener and a set of colouring pencils. We will provide this equipment where required.
P.E.
Please note that from the start of the Summer term, Monday 25th April, all children will be expected to return to school wearing school uniform each day as they did before Covid. This means that all children will be expected to bring their P.E. Kit to school and to change in to this. P.E. will take place on Monday and Wednesday in Year 3.
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.
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 |
6th September 2021 | Overcoming the Baddie Story | Jack and the Beanstalk |
27th September 2021 | Instructions | How to Mummify a Pharoah |
| 1st November 2021 | Warning Story | The Canal |
| 22nd November 2021 | Book Review | Galaxy Zack: Journey to Juno |
| 3rd January 2022 | Adventure Story | Kassim and the Greedy Dragon |
| 24th January 2022 | Non-chronological Report | The Manchester Ridge-back |
| 28th February 2022 | Journey Story | The Magic Bed |
| 21st March 2022 | Poetry | The Sound Collector |
| 25th April 2022 | Newspaper Recount | Golden Ticket Glory! |
| 16th May 2022 | Wishing Tale | The King of the Fishes |
| 13th June 2022 | Persuasive Letter | Circus letter |
| 4th July 2022 | Recount | An Egyptian Visitor |
Please download the texts and story maps and practise retelling them. Aim to retell the texts with actions and expression!
Texts for Use at Home
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 http://www.mathsnoproblem.co.uk/mathematics/primary-key-stage1-and-key-stage-2/maths-no-problem.html
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 |
6th September 2021 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 1 - Numbers to 1000 |
20th September 2021 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 2 - Addition and Subtraction |
18th October 2021 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 3 - Multiplication and Division |
15th November 2021 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 4 - Further Multiplication and Division |
13th December 2021 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 5 - Length |
10th January 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 6 - Mass |
17th January 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Chapter 7 - Volume |
7th February 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3A - Mid Year revision |
14th February 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 8 - Money |
7th March 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 9 - Time |
4th April 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 10 - Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs |
25th April 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 11 - Fractions |
| 23rd May 2022 | Revision |
| 13th June 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 11 - Fractions |
4th July 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 12 - Angles |
6th July 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 13 - Lines and Shapes |
11th July 2022 | Year 3 Textbook 3B - Chapter 14 - Perimeter of Figures |
| 18th July 2022 | 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 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes.
Design and Technology - Year 3 have been learning about shell structures. They have evaluated existing products and drawn some nets. They have just completed their own Easter boxes which they made using Computer Aided Design.
Art - We have been learning about Henri Rousseau. We worked together to create jungle collages, inspired by Rousseau's painting, 'Tiger in the Jungle'.
We have been learning about the concept of light in RE and how it is important to Hindus. We made clay divas to celebrate Diwali.
Ancient Egyptian Canopic Jars
Egyptian Day
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. 