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Year 3

Class Teachers: Mrs Billins (Mon-Wed), Mr Handy (Thurs-Fri)

Teaching Assistant: Mrs McComish (Mon-Thurs)

Learning Support Assistants: Mrs MacLeod, Miss Milstead, Mrs Lyne

Autumn Term 2025-2026

Maths

In Maths, we will start the term by looking at place value, understanding and ordering numbers up to 1000. The children will also learn to recognise and understand the value of each digit. The children will also then learn about addition and subtraction as well as continuing to build on their knowledge of times tables from Year 2. Please practise the 2x, 5x and 10x tables from Year 2. We will then go on to learning the 3x, 4x and 8x next. In the second half of the autumn term, we will be focusing on multiplication and division.

How can you help at home? The great majority of the children in the school are enjoying using Times-Table Rockstars regularly, and this is reflected in their learning of the tables. We are expecting some of the Year 3 children to learn all their tables to 12x by the end of the year! We will be continuing the popular Thursday multiplication tables challenge this year; many of the children really enjoy the spirit of friendly competition; their hard work being rewarded with good progress. If your child doesn't enjoy this type of competition, please speak to a member of staff.

Please try to find opportunities to practise everyday maths in the real world: counting coins to find the correct amount, working out the correct change; weighing ingredients using scales and reading the time on an analogue and digital clock.

English

During the Autumn term, our first writing unit is linked to fairy tales. We will reading a selection of fairy tales and then learning to write our own version of the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. We will then be linking our writing to our Geography topic about volcanoes and we will be creating fact files about volcanoes. In the second half of the autumn term, we will be linking our English to our History topic (Stone Age). We will be reading Stone Age Boy and writing a stone age narrative as well as a diary entry, pretending that we spent some time in the stone age. Our school trip will provide the children with the knowledge of what it was like to be in the stone age which will also help to improve their writing.

How can you help at home? Please ensure that your child reads aloud at least 4 times a week. This is absolutely vital if the children are to shine to their best ability; it is the biggest factor in how well your child progresses in almost every area of the curriculum. The children should bring in their reading record books every day, signed by an adult when they have read. Remember to colour in the stars on their bookmarks each time they have read, so the children can be presented with their reading certificates and move on to the next bookmark.

Science

In Science, we will be learning about skeletons, nutrition and eating healthy and in the second half of the term we will move on to learning about rocks.

R.E.

The children will be learning to answer the following questions:

- Does taking bread and wine show that someone is Christian?

- Is light a good symbol for celebration?

P.E.

PE will be taught on Mondays (by Mr O'Keefe) and Wednesdays (by Mrs Billins); on these days the children should continue to come to school in their PE kit. This term the children will be enjoying golf, gymnastics, football and handball.

Homework

Alternating Maths and English homework will be sent home every Thursday, and should be handed in by the following Monday. All children will be expected to complete their homework by this deadline. Completed homework will stay at school so that any errors and misconceptions can be addressed at school.

Of course, you are welcome to help your child complete their homework, but if they need a lot of help, please let us know, so we can give them further support.

As well as the written homework, please also encourage your child to read at least 4 times a week and play times tables rock stars as much as possible.

As always, if you require any further information, please come and chat to the class teacher after school or send an email via the school office secretary@st-michaels-school.org

Times Tables Challenge

The times tables challenge involves a number of levels, each with 36 (or more) questions, to be completed in 3 minutes. (This is the speed required by the statutory Year 4 tables test).

The children are not allowed to miss questions out and need to get 100% correct to move onto the next level. The more practise the children get, the quicker they become!

The most enjoyable way to prepare for this is using the Times Tables Rockstars app.

The questions are shuffled up so please encourage your child to learn the tables in any order!