Children Year groups

Welcome to Belle Vue's Year 3 Page!

Hello and welcome to Year 3.
We are now in Key Stage 2.

The staff in Year 3 are Mrs Perrett, Mrs Hodson, Mrs Tomkins, Mrs Hart and Mrs Fellows.
We are really looking forward to the new year and excited to see your children grow and mature in their learning.

Mrs Hodson

Class teacher 3HP

Monday- Wednesday

Mrs Perrett

Class teacher 3HP

Wednesday - Friday

Miss Tomkins

Class Teacher 3T

Mrs Hart

Mrs fellows

Teaching Assistants

The Belle Vue Way.

Our three school rules are:

Be Ready
Be Respectful
Be Safe

We also have four listening skills that we actively teach across school. These are:

Good listening is…sitting still
Good listening is…staying quiet
Good listening is…looking at the person who is talking
Good listening is…listening to all of the words

Current Term

Reading

Writing

Maths

Developing reading skills

We are reading The Midnight Fox by Bestsy Byars. Through this gentle story we will be ensuring the children's understanding of new vocabulary and identifying with the feelings of each character.

We will teach reading every day through choral reading for fluency, checking the understanding of vocabulary and helping the children to understand and enjoy what they read.

The children will have a reading book that they bring home every night. Please could you ensure that they bring it in every day as they will read it every day in class.

Developing writing skills.

We will be helping the children to understand how important it is to understand sentence and grammar structures to write a variety of coherant sentences.
The children will be looking closely at key punctuation and ensuring they can write independent, coherent statements, questions, exclamations and commands.
They will also learn how to extend sentences using conjunctions, adjectives and adverbs.
As a part of the writing process, they will review their work and make changes and revisions.

Spelling
Spelling will be a key aspect of developing writing skills and will be taught daily. Ten spellings, linked to a spelling pattern will be learnt each week.

Spelling tests will take place on Friday and include the 10 words learnt that week.

Handwriting.
Handwriting will be taught every day. The children will be expected to use joined handwriting in their independent work by the end of Year 3. It is a key component in developing children's writing.

Children will build on these fundamental building blocks to write longer pieces of work as they move thorough the school year.

Developing number skills.

The children will be learning to order, read and manipulate numbers up to 4 digits. They will be developing and securing their addition and subtraction calculations and increase their recall of known facts, eg. number bonds to 20, number bonds to 100.

Multiplication is an important aspect and the children will need to remember their knowledge from Year 2 (2X 5X and 10x) and moving onto 3X 4X and 8X. By the end of Year 3 they will need to be able to recall all of their multiplication facts in readiness for the Statutory Multiplication Test at the end of Year 4. They will be working on multiplication daily and recieving multiplication homework every week.

P.E.

PE kits need to be in school for children to use on Monday and Wednesday afternoons.

Please tie back long hair and please remove earrings if children can not do this independently.

Class Dojo

Messages, information and photos will be shared on the class story page for each class. Please ask if you need a new code to login.

My Happy Mind

Alongside our weekly PSHE lessons, you will have access to some useful MyHappyMind resources that you can explore together at home to support your child's learning and wellbeing. Please contact the office if you need a log on.

Handwriting
Handwriting will be taught every day using the 'Letter-Join' handwriting program. The children will be expected to use joined handwriting, leading to a cursive style by Year 6. It is a key component in developing children's writing. Throughout these lessons, the children will be taught about letter families, number formation and High Frequency Words.

It would be extremely beneficial if you could support your child with their handwriting at home too. Simply follow the code below to access a range of activities to practise their 'letter-joins'.

SpellingWordList Y3 4

We will be looking at these words as part of our handwriting sessions.
Please read them at home and encourage your child to find out what they mean.
You might even challenge them to write them in a sentence?

Wider Curriculum

Autumn Term

Science:
Biology - Human Body

Religious Education:
What makes us human?
Where do our morals come from?

PSHE:
My Happy Mind - Meet your brain.
My Happy Mind - Places

Geography:
Spatial Sense.

History
Stone age to Iron age

Art: Drawing

Music: Rythmic patterns, singing, using tuned and untuned percussion and improvisation.

PE:
Monday
Gymnastics

Wednesday
Dodgeball
Football

DT: Design a key ring.