Year 3

PE will continue to take place on Wednesday (Swimming) and Friday (Athletics).

Swimming kit should consist of swimming costume, swimming hat, goggles and towel.

Forest School will continue every week on a Tuesday, weather permitting. We suggest children have their Forest School clothes in every week.

English:

Let the Magic Begin in Term 6!

This term, Year 3 will be stepping into a world of wonder and imagination as we dive into Leon and the Place Between by Angela McAllister and Grahame Baker-Smith. Through this magical story, we’ll explore how to create atmosphere in our writing by choosing powerful adjectives and adverbs, and we’ll continue to develop our understanding of accurate speech punctuation.

As the term progresses, we’ll become persuasive performers, crafting captivating advertisements to invite people to our very own circus! Expect plenty of alliteration, emotive language, and irresistible offers that no one will want to refuse.

To round off the term, we’ll transform into poets! We’ll learn how to structure limericks and clerihews, carefully considering rhyme and syllable patterns to make our poetry pop. We’ll also be polishing our speaking and listening skills, ready to perform our poems with confidence and flair.

Get ready for a term full of creativity, imagination, and a touch of magic!

Maths:

For our final term in Year 3, we embark on exploring the properties of shape. This includes looking at turns and angles, including right angles. We will also explore 2D and 3D shapes and their properties.

In our final few weeks we will be looking at pictograms and bar charts and how these can be used in our daily lives.

Foundation

Swimming will take place on Wednesdays, starting the first week back in Term 6. We will be improving our running, jumping and throwing skills while learning about athletics in our second PE slot of the week, which will take place on Friday..

Every Tuesday, we will continue to explore the Playscape and use its surroundings to complete activities and work together with a focus on a variety of objectives from PSHE and Forest School. We are hoping for sunshine but please ensure your child has the appropriate clothing with them for all weather e.g. wellies and waterproofs or sun cream and sun hat!

In Science, the children will continue on their exciting scientific journey where we delve into the world of famous scientists and conduct hands-on investigations that will help recap and consolidate their learning from the year.

This term sees us learning about coastlines in Geography and eventually making our own miniature one.

In DT, we will delve into the world of pencil case design. We'll get creative exploring materials and stitch our way to a personalised creation in our classes. Thimbles optional!

In Computing, we will be debugging programmes in SCRATCH.  

In PSHE, we will be reflecting on our achievements and the growth mindset that helped us.  

In RE, we'll delve into the query, "What does it mean to belong to a religion?" with a focus on Islam. 

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.