Year 3

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

Teaching Assistants: Mrs. Nurton,  Mrs. McComish

Tables Challenge

The children are getting very competitive and ambitious with the Thursday times table challenge.  The 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 most fun way to prepare for this is using Times Tables Rockstars. Please do not allow the children to memorise the challenge questions as they are shuffled up!

Summer Term 2025

We are now into the final 12 weeks of Year 3!  The children are growing up fsat, and have made so much progress this year.

HIghlights of this tem include a trip to Kew Gardens on Wednesday 20 May.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we will continue improving our arithmetic, with an emphasis on the formal methods of multiplication and division. We will be expanding our knowledge of fractions, and learning about time and money. It would be very helpful to your child if he/she can read a digital and analogue clock before we begin the Time topic, as it will enable them to progress much further.

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; many of the children are enjoying the spirit of friendly competition; their hard work being rewarded with good progress..

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 Summer term we will be reading 'The Iron Man bt Ted Huges d and writing our own modern fantasy stories. We will also be wriing rainforest-themed Haiku poems.

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.

Science

In Science, we will be learning about plants: the fuctions of different parts of plants, what plants need to live, and why plants and insects are so important to us. This topic will be enhansed by a class trip to Kew Gardens.

R.E.
 

The children will be answering the looking at severak parables and discussing the question: "Can made-up stories tell the truth?"

P.E.

PE will be taught on Mondays and Wednesdays; on these days the children should continue to come to school in their PE kit. This term the children will be enjoying Netball, Alhletics and Rounders. We may also have another orienteering competition around Hoorseshe Lake

Homework

Alternating Maths and English homework will be sent home every Wednesday, 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. 

We recommend that children complete their homework earlier in the week, as this gives them time to ask their teachers for help, if it is needed.

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.

Please remind your child to bring in their homework every Monday (or earlier, if it is completed early) so that homework can be marked and new homework can be issued. 

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

Useful websites

Writing Inspiration

Spelling Help

Timestables

Mathsbot

Mathaids

Readtheory

BBC Skillswise - advice for parents who want to help with homework

BBC Bitesize

Interactive teaching programmes (maths)

Interactive teaching clock

Timestables games

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