Year 3 2024 - 2025

Mrs Harland

Mrs Hodgson

Miss Curry

To contact the Year 3 team email Year3@elton.cheshire.sch.uk

Love Learning, Love Life, Always Aiming High

Welcome back to school, and to your final term in Year 3!

We hope you all had a lovely restful break. Hasn't this year gone so fast? It's already the summer term and you have nearly completed your time in Year 3! We still have so much learning to do though. Here, you can find out all about what we have in store for you!

The Year 3 team are Mrs Harland, Mrs Hodgson, Miss Curry, Miss Russell and Mrs Jones. You can find more details below about which adults you can expect to see on which days of the week.

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Mrs Harland Mrs Hodgson Miss Curry

Year 3 Structure

Monday-Thursday: Mrs Harland and Mrs Hodgson with support from Miss Russell

Friday: Miss Curry and Mrs Hodgson with support from Miss Russell

Mrs Jones is our associate teacher, who works closely with Mrs Harland, Mrs Hodgson and Miss Curry to plan and teach different lessons across the curriculum. She has been working with us since March, and will continue to deliver some of your lessons until July.

Some of your PE sessions may be delivered by Mr Wynne from S4YC.

PE will mainly be delivered on Wednesdays and Fridays - although this may be subject to change. You will need to bring a PE kit in with you on the first day back after the holidays. However, it is always a good idea to have your PE kit in all week. We send them home every half term to be washed, however if you do take them home before then, then please make sure they're back in school the following day. Don’t forget - all PE kits must be named, including socks and shoes.

Homework

In Year 3 you will be given Learning Log and maths homework on a Friday, this needs to be handed back in on a Wednesday. Throughout Year 3, we will be working hard on learning our times tables ready for the times table check in Year 4. To support you in learning your times tables, you will have access to Times Table Rock Stars at home and will also be set weekly times tables to learn.

Spellings will be sent home at the start of the half term, and you will be directed to the list we are working on weekly. We won’t be formally testing spellings every Friday but instead will expect you to use those words in your work each week.

Reading

It is important to continue to read at home regularly to improve comprehension skills and fluency. We ask that you read at least three times a week with your adults, and that your reading record is signed by the adult. Your reading record must be handed in twice a week to allow teachers to check any comments and support you with reading at home, this will be on a Monday and a Thursday.

Reading books should be changed at least once a week, and whilst we will remind you to do this, you will be able to do this readily just outside the classroom. You will have access to our class’s extensive range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction books, magazines, and newspapers as well as a fantastic set of levelled books in the key stage two corridor. In class, we will undertake guided reading, quiet reading, shared reading and reading for pleasure, in addition to working through a class book in English.

Pathways to Read:

Guided Reading book in Summer 1: The Illustrated Atlas of Britain and Ireland by Struan Reid and Megan Cullis

Guided Reading book in Summer 2: The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo

English

In English, we will be entering the prehistoric world of ‘Journey’ through our class text. This term we will be focusing on fascinating vocabulary, ambitious conjunctions, dramatic openers and using a variety of interesting punctuation. We will be writing in the forms of narrative and stories with an adventurous theme and magical settings, reading and performing our writing, and learning to use dictionaries. We will then move on to our unit of work on information writing, where we will be inspired by the text 'Zeraffa Giraffa' to find out about the beautiful Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and write an accompanying advertising leaflet.

Pathways to Write –

Summer 1: Journey by Aaron Becker

Summer 2: Zeraffa Giraffa by Dianne Hofmeyr

Maths

In Maths, our units of study for this term include fractions, mass and capacity, money, time and shape. In fractions, we will look at how to recognise fractions as part of a whole, count fractions on a number line, add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and find fractions of an amount. We will be learning how to tell the time on both analogue and digital clocks, including telling the time to the nearest minute, and working out the time on a 24 hour clock. This is tricky, so the more you can practise this at home, the better. We will also learn to recognise right angles, and angles which are larger or smaller than 90 degrees, and will learn to recognise parallel, perpendicular, horizontal and vertical lines.

Support

At the top of the page, you can find links to download useful files, such as the Learning Leaflets and homework support. You can also find useful website links below and videos to support you at home.

Grown-ups, if you have any questions or would like to speak to us, then please catch one of the Year 3 adults at the end of the day or email the class email (year3@elton.cheshire.sch.uk). Alternatively, if you have an urgent enquiry, then please contact the school office, who can relay any messages to us.

The Year 3 Team

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