Welcome to Year 3

Welcome back to a very exciting and final term ahead! We hope you’ve all had a fun but relaxing time over the Easter holiday break!

As well as settling your children back, this term is a very busy one - as always – and continues with our topic called ‘Picture our Planet’. This incorporates looking at Geography and the localities:- Brazil, Scotland and Fiji, and includes key facts, physical and human features, traditions and customs and an insight into how each country is tackling particular conservation issues.

The children will continue to read at home daily where we will require your support to help them with this and talk about what they have read. A daily comment in your child’s reading diary is always welcomed and communication in this book between yourselves and your child’s teacher is always helpful. Children will also continue to receive one set of spellings weekly to learn at home please (these being statutory words they will need to know in Year 3).

The online Reading Eggs programme will continue (so too with weekly comprehension tasks set) but this is in addition to reading books they are expected to read at home on a regular basis.

The maths online programme ‘TT Rockstar’ will be continuing to help consolidate work your child has been doing in class with their times tables. Please let us know asap if you have any problems with accessing these programs as homework is vital towards consolidating learning we are doing in class.

Your child will be continuing to take part in P.E on each Wednesday morning and Friday afternoon, and we are going to continue with the children wearing the correct kit in school for these days please. (all items named please) Just a reminder that PE kits should be plain white T-shirt or with school logo and black shorts for the warmer months ahead. In line with Health and Safety guidelines, can we remind parents that jewellery should not be worn for PE. Children will be asked to remove or tape earrings before PE sessions.

As always, we appreciate your support! Our classroom doors are always open; whether it be for a quick chat, a thumbs up or to answer any queries you may have. You can always message us on Class Dojos too, where we will aim to respond to you as soon as we can during suitable school working hours.

We’re looking forward to working together with you again this term,

The Year 3 Team,       

Mrs Skitt/Miss Wood, Miss Richards, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Ram & Mrs Warner