Hi and welcome to Year 3!

The class teacher is Miss Taylor

Summer Term 2026

English

This term we are writing newspaper reports on the text,  Escape from Pompeii, by Christina Balit. We will then move on to Cloud Tea Monkeys, by Mal Peet.  This three-week Writing Root begins with the arrival of a Royal Tea –Taster in class seeking apprentice tea-tasters. The children experience an immersive session where they smell and taste a range of different teas before creating descriptive statements to describe a tea. A basket is then delivered and inside is a magical and moving story about Cloud Tea and how monkeys save a young girl and her mother. As the text is read, the children are exposed to range of language activities to stimulate grammatical development and reading comprehension skills. The children then write letters of thanks to the monkeys. Using the authors’ note as further stimulus, children research, plan and then write a non-chronological report on tea, the tea-trade and traditions relating to tea.

VIPERS guided reading and phonics

Each morning Year 3 take part in either Read Write Inc. phonics lessons, to help the children learn their sounds, or whole-class guided reading sessions, where they learn the skills of comprehending a text. Our current book in guided reading is 'Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl. We will soon be starting Ted Hughes ‘Iron Man’. In these sessions we learn to explore:

Vocabulary

Inference

Prediction

Explanation

Retrieval

Summarising

The children answer questions based on these reading skills about the given text.

Our Friday morning VIPERS lessons are now dedicated to completing Accelerated Reader quizzes after your child has finished their reading book.  When reading at home, please record your child's progress in their Reading Record book. Write the title of the book, the pages read and a short comment if you can.

Maths

We teach and learn maths through the 'White Rose' programme. This term we will focus on multiplication and division, before recapping addition and subtraction through the context of perimeter and area. We will be using practical resources such as counters and number lines to support learning. You can support your child by regularly testing them on their Year 2 times tables (2s, 5s, 10s), and helping them to learn their new Year 3 times tables (3s, 4s, 8s). 

Swimming

Swimming forms Year 3's second PE session of the week - this takes place on a Tuesday afternoon at Wentworth Leisure Centre with Year 4. Please ensure your child always brings a costume/ trunks, a towel and goggles for their swimming lessons. Swimming kits can be taken home to be washed after each session. Children can be collected from the swimming pool at 3pm, or from the school as usual.

Homework

Children will receive a homework wallet to keep their homework in. Homework is given out on Fridays and due back the following Thursday. Children will take home maths homework and spelling homework, which will help with their spelling low-stakes 'quiz' on Thursdays. Children will also be given an overview of weekly spelling words. Please encourage your child to complete their homework as it helps a great deal to reinforce recent learning and new skills.  

Please do ask if you have any questions or queries about ways to support your child. 

Miss Taylor

Class teacher

Reading at home

It is very important that each child is reading 3 or more times a week at home with a grown-up in addition to the times they read at school with a member of staff. Frequent reading will improve reading fluency, build your child's confidence in reading aloud in a 'story-teller's' voice and deepen the comprehension of what they are reading. Please record any reading at home in your child’s ‘reading record’. 

TT Rockstars

Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)

The times tables that the children are required to know by the end of Year 3 are:

2x, 5x, 10x, 3x, 4x, 8x. 

To log in to TT Rockstars at home, simply type it into Google and click on the link. Go to Login (4th option along the top) and click on School pupils. It will then prompt you for the school name, then it will ask you for username and you need to select pin (not password) and enter pin. The children have this information inside their reading records.