Year 3
Welcome to our Year 3 page!
The Year 3 Team:
Mr Lucas and Miss Arundel
Class of 2025/26
Routines:
On a Wednesday we have the JB Sports coaches come and teach our P.E lessons; on these days we come to school in our P.E kit. Our P.E kit should be:
- Plain white t-shirt
- Black/navy shorts.
- Trainers or Plimsolls can be worn for PE lessons.
- Black/Navy tracksuit bottoms for colder weather/outdoor PE.
- Black/Navy tracksuit top for colder weather/outdoor PE.
- No Football/Sports shirts
Home Reading - We encourage all children to read for 30 minutes at least 3 times a week. This will help them to put their fluency into practice, one of the cornerstones to great reading! If they read for three or four nights a week, they move up the reward ladder in class and earn a token for their house; if they read for five, six or seven nights a week, they move straight to the top of the reward ladder and gain a raffle ticket. On the last day of each big term, Mr Lucas will draw two tokens from the pot and those children will win a Golden Token, earning them a book from our Book Vending Machine! Mr Lucas will collect reading diaries in on Friday to mark so please ensure they come in on that day.
If you would like some guidance on the best way to read with your child at home, or are looking for help to inspire reluctant readers, try the document below! It's packed with ideas!
Homework
This year, we are changing our homework provision and will no longer be setting weekly homework. This to provide more time for daily reading (See above for expectations). We are also changing the way we do spellings. We now follow the Active Spelling program which does not require children to prepare for a test at home.
If you are keen to support your child at home, there are a few things you can do that will really help. We are a TT Rockstars school. As such, all children in KS2 have a log in to the website where they can practice the times tables we have learnt in class. In year 3, we aim to know our 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 8's and 10's. Becoming more proficient with these is always a good thing!
English Support
If you are looking to support your child with English, there is a great link to BBC Bitesize which offers a range of activities to help with the grammar and punctuation expectations.
Class Reading
Mr Lucas loves to read out loud to the children and tries to do so at the end of every school day!
This term we have already read "The Twits" and have now begun "The BFG" by the infamous, and ever hilarious, Roald Dahl!
Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts a plan with him to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
"Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist." Sophie discovers that giants not only exist, but that there are a great many of them who like to guzzle and swallomp nice little chiddlers. But not the Big Friendly Giant. He and Sophie cook up an ingenious plot to free the world of troggle-humping forever.
"Let your light shine, so others may see the good that you do."
This term we are shining a light on local hero and NASA astronaut Michael Foale! Born in Louth, this remarkable Lincolnshire lad found himself, through hard work and determination, as the second Brit in space and the first to perform a space walk!
Jigsaw This is Jigsaw Jino! Jino will support us this year during our Jigsaw lessons and ensure we are following the Jigsaw charter.
Our Autumn 1 piece is:
Being Me In My World
Who am I and where do I fit in?