Year 3

PE Schedule for Term 4

PE will be on Wednesday and Friday during Term 4.

On Wednesdays, we’ll be developing our tennis skills. On Fridays, the coaches from Active Development are back and will be helping to improve our football skills even further.

Please ensure your child comes to school wearing their PE kit on these days, including their house-coloured top.

Forest School

On Wednesday afternoons, we will hopefully be heading to Forest School. Make sure your child has their Forest School kit ready, which should include waterproofs and wellies.

Clubs

Clubs continue in Term 4. Please ensure all clubs are attended and that the teacher running the club knows if you can't attend.

English
We have an exciting term ahead in English! Our core text will be Greta and the Giants, a story inspired by Greta Thunberg’s activism. Using this as inspiration, we will write our own stories to encourage others to take better care of our planet. We will also explore instruction writing, linking this to baking cakes for a charity cake sale to raise awareness of environmental issues.

In Guided Reading, we will enjoy Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger – What would you do with a magic finger?

 

 

Maths
We will complete our length and perimeter unit by learning how to measure and calculate perimeter. Then, we will dive into fractions, understanding what they are, comparing and ordering them, and finding equivalent fractions. Later in the term, we will return to measurement, focusing on mass and capacity.

Foundation Subjects

🔬 Science – We will be learning about plants and their life cycles.

🥪 DT – Children will design, make and evaluate their own healthy sandwiches, including tasting different types of bread. (Please inform your class teacher of any allergies.)

💭 PSHE – We will explore healthy choices for both body and mind and discuss how to handle tricky situations.

💻 Computing – We will be creating branching databases, using yes/no questions to sort and organise information.

✝️ RE – Our focus will be Christianity, exploring prayer, parables, and the Easter story.

🌍 Geography – We will investigate where we are in the world and the challenges of mapping a spherical planet onto flat 2D maps.

🎾 PE – This term, we will develop hand-eye coordination in tennis and continue improving our football skills with coaches from Active Development.

We are looking forward to another fantastic term of learning! 🌟

Healthy Snacks - NO NUT School

We encourage healthy eating, so children can bring fruit for a playtime snack. Please remember that we are a nut-free school due to severe allergies amongst students and staff.

Also, every child needs to bring a water bottle to school daily for use throughout the day. Please note that fizzy or flavoured drinks are not allowed.

School Uniform

All children are expected to wear the correct school uniform. Full details on the school uniform can be found on our website.

Communication

Please contact the office regarding anything you require immediate advice on or for any urgent messages. Also, please continue to use the office phone line to report your child’s absence. Please feel free to write comments in their homework book too.

Open Door Friday

Every Friday after school, you are invited to come into the classroom to share and look at your child’s work. It's a great opportunity to see what they’ve been up to!

Music lessons

To sign up for music lessons, please see the links below:

Rocksteady – https://www.rocksteadymusicschool.com/

Other Music Lessons – https://uksouthglos.speedadmin.dk/registration#/

Email: music@wema.org.uk 

For any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us via email at paulton_jun@bathnes.gov.uk or call us at 01761 418137.

Homework will be set on a Monday and collected in on Friday. All children are expected to complete homework and work will be differentiated accordingly. Homework will vary each week between English, Maths or Foundation subjects and children will also have weekly spelling tasks to be completed at home.

Reading

We expect children to read at home daily and for this to be recorded in their reading records, a minimum of 3 times per week. Please ensure reading records are in school every day.

Online Platforms

Please also ensure that online platforms, including TTR and Nessy, are used as part of weekly homework tasks. Logins should be in your child’s reading record.

Links can be found below:

• Nessy: https://www.nessy.com/uk/
• TTR: https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/73542
• Accelerated Reader: https://ukhosted38.renlearn.co.uk/6699465/ (for quizzes)
• Fonetti: https://app.fonetti.com/auth/login 

Note to parents/ carers

It is crucial that all children become confident with their times-tables as they will be taking the Year 4 times table test in July 2026. Understanding and rapid recall of multiplication facts (and other number facts) is the cornerstone to fluent mathematics.

READING @HOME

Oxford Owl for Home with lots of free resources for Primary age. It can provide your child with a schemed reading book. The free ebooks include : Biff and Chip, The Oxford Reading Tree Books, Project X, TreeTops.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

As a parent, you will need to sign up and log in with your email address to access lots of the e books. Most have an audio option, to read along or listen to the book being read and additional activities, including comprehension questions to help when you are sharing the books together. There is not a subscription, and you are not expected to buy any of the books.

Book recommendation

Write your name, book details and reason for your recommendation on the Padlet below:

Additional learning links:

– Topmarks English and Maths Games – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ see below for help

See the picture below for help. Click learning games at the top of the website. Then select either Maths or English on the left-hand side. Check you’ve selected the right age! Finally, choose a category of game, browse the games and choose one to play.

Useful websites

These websites will help you for Writing:

www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/punctuation

www.resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic/punctuation

For Reading:

www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames.html

www.readers.com/resources/education/kids-online-reading-games/

For Maths:

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

www.resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/interactive.htm

Fun with times tables

Practice singing along to the songs below to help you learn you times tables.