• Indoor PE lessons take place on Friday.
• Outdoor games Thursday.
• Please write in your child’s reading diary when you have heard them read. We would love them to read aloud to someone at home at least 3 times a week! In Year 3 children can also record their own reading in this reading diary.
• Devices need to be charged daily at home – please bring into school fully charged
• Pencil case which includes HB pencils, glue stick, coloured pencils, rubber and sharpener.
• Spelling tests every Friday.
• Named water bottle
• Homework is handed out on a Friday for the following Wednesday 

Children in Year 3 enjoy a variety of trips as well as workshops where visitors come to the school.

Trips this year include:

Stone Age Workshop at Bishop’s Wood Outdoor Centre (Autumn)

Visit and Drama Workshop to Birmingham Museum and the Rep Theatre (Spring)

Trip to Stonehenge (Summer)

Summer School sleepover (Summer)

The Big Sing to take place at Malvern Festival Theatre (Summer)

Workshops:

DT – Textile Bag Workshop (Spring)

Concert with Year 5 – Summer Vibes (Summer)

In Year 3, your child is encouraged to become an independent reader. Book choices are monitored, but the children are learning to choose ‘best fit’ texts. If your child requires targeted support, they will be heard daily.   The children will also participate in text-led tasks during the week. There is a focus on reading comprehensions and the children understanding what authors may infer in texts. The children read a range of texts as a class, providing further opportunities for us to monitor and assess your child’s reading.

We recommend that children in Year 3 are reading a home daily for at least 15 minutes.

Please make sure that your child brings their reading book and diary into school each day.

Lego Club – Tuesday - 12.45-1.15pm

Eco Art Club– Thursday -  3.15 -1.15pm

Drama Club - Tuesday - 3.15 -4.00pm

In Year 3, as well as supporting your child with their daily reading and times tables practice (2,3,4,5,6,8,10s), there are number of additional ways you can support your child:

There are number of additional ways you can support your child:

• Supporting and encouraging your child with their weekly homework
• Word games like Scrabble or Boggle which can expand vocabulary
• Using our Key Vocab in conversation – discuss meanings with your child
• Real life maths e.g. calculating shopping costs or measuring ingredients

Maths board games such as Monopoly

Useful websites to support Maths are:

Homework is given out on a Friday and should be handed in by the following Wednesday. Children will be able to login to Seesaw on their school iPad and homework may be loaded onto the SeeSaw platform.

Homework will be relevant to the children’s recent learning and will alternate between Maths, English and foundation subjects.  The children will be screened in spellings and put in an appropriate group.  They will be tested weekly on Fridays.

Our allocated days for PE this year are

 Indoor PE lessons - Friday

Outdoor games  - Tuesday

Please ensure that your child arrives at school in their PE kit on these days.

Swimming will take place every Monday in the summer term

At times, you may wish to discuss your child's learning, progress or wellbeing with their class teacher in more detail than is possible at the beginning or end of the school day. To support this, we offer weekly Teacher Surgeries, providing parents and carers with the opportunity to meet with their child's class teacher by appointment.

3CC - Monday (3.15-4.00pm)

3EG – Tuesday (3.15-4.00pm)

3EA -Thursday (3.15-4.00pm)

As with all Year Groups there is the opportunity to sign up  for peripatetic lessons.  Currently, children in Year 3 can pay for additional lessons in keyboard, piano, drumming and guitar. It is worth checking what is available as these can change.