• Indoor PE lessons take place on Thursday.
• Outdoor games Wednesday.
• 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)

Trip to Stonehenge (Spring)

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

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

Workshops:

DT – Textile Bag Workshop (Spring)

Concert with Year 5 – Little People Big Voices (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.

Dance Club – Monday - 12.45-1.15pm

Board Games – Tuesday -  12.45-1.15pm

Drama Club - Tuesday - 3.15 -4.00pm

Lego Club – Wednesday – 12.45 – 1.15pm

Oddstepperz – Wednesday – After school (outside provider)

Dance Club – Thursday – After school (outside provider)

Cheerleading – Friday – lunchtime

Silent Disco – Friday – After school (outside provider)

We expect children to read at home on a regular basis in Year 3 and keep practising the rapid recall of their timetables, including 3s,4s,6,s and 8s ( 2s, 5s and 10s)

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 - Thursday

Outdoor games  - Wednesday

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

3CC - Monday

3KF – Tuesday

3CH -Thursday

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.