Year 3DE
Welcome to Year 3! We cannot wait to get to know each and every one of your children.
I am Mr Evans, your class teacher. Mrs Mendieta, our assistant head teacher, will be covering afternoon lessons on a Friday. We are all excited to teach your children over the next year, and hope to make learning engaging and interesting for everyone.
If you’d like to talk to any of us, please look out for us in the playground before and after school. We are always happy to speak to you about any concerns you may have.
Mr D Evans
Teacher Year 3
Mrs A Mendieta
Assistant Headteacher: Phase 1
Dear Parents, Carers and Families,
I would like to wish you all a happy new year, and with that a big welcome back to school for 2023!
In this Spring term we will be doing lots of work about Ancient Greece, particularly in our English, Geography and History lessons. In English we will be doing lots of work around Greek Myths, writing both fiction and non-fiction pieces including character descriptions and newspaper reports, thinking about the stories of the Minotaur and Apollo and the Chimera. Our geography lessons, will focus on European Geography, particularly looking at the Mediterranean. In History, we’ll learn about how the Ancient Greeks lived, the gods and goddesses, mythical stories, and lots more! We have lots of fun activities planned to link to our Ancient Greece topic, we will get to pretend to be gods or goddesses or to live like the Greeks did!
In Maths we will be continuing learning about multiplication and division, now looking at formal methods to multiply and divide larger numbers, as well as doing some work on fractions and measurement later in the term. I strongly encourage the children to regularly log onto their ttrockstars accounts to practise their times tables, as this will really help them in their lessons. If you need their login details, please just let me know. In Year 3 children need to be able to recall their 2, 3, 4, 5, 8- and 10-times tables, so the more they practise these, the better!
We will be continuing with our reading lessons, with the aims of improving the children’s fluency and comprehension skills. As we mentioned in Autumn, reading with you child for just 5-10 minutes each night can help improve their reading skills. Please remind your children to bring their reading book (with reading record) into school once they have finished with it and pop it into the book box into the classroom. This will make sure that their reading books will be changed each week. New reading books will be given out on a Friday with homework books.
Our PE lessons will both take place on Thursday’s, with one being indoor and one outdoor (weather permitting). I ask that children come to school wearing their PE kit, but bring their school uniform with them, as they may sometimes need to get back changed into uniform. A reminder that PE kit should consist of a plain white t-shirt, plain black/ dark-coloured shorts or tracksuit bottoms and trainers. We politely ask for no jewellery or bright coloured/patterned sports clothing, please.
We will be continuing with our reading lessons, with the aims of improving the children’s fluency and comprehension skills. As we mentioned in Autumn, reading with you child for just 5-10 minutes each night can help improve their reading skills. Please remind your children to bring their reading book (with reading record) into school once they have finished with it and pop it into the book box into the classroom. This will make sure that their reading books will be changed each week. New reading books will be given out on a Friday with homework books.
Homework is also given every Friday, with it due to be completed by the following Thursday. This homework will link to the English or Maths work that we will have done that week. This will be stuck into you child’s purple homework books, so it is vital that these are returned by Friday morning each week. Also, the children who work in Mrs McGrath’s spelling group will be given a spelling list to practise at home for a test each week.
One final reminder that all class news and notices will be posted each week on Class Dojo. I regularly post pictures and videos of some of the things the children having been doing, and also make the exciting Superhero of the Week announcement every Friday. If you ever have any questions or queries about anything going on in school, feel free to message me and I will aim to get back to you as soon as reasonably possible.
If you’d ever like to talk to any of the Year 3 team in person, please look out for us in the playground after school. We are always happy to speak to you about any thoughts or concerns you may have.
We’re looking forward to a fantastic Spring term with your children.
Thank you all for your support.
Mr Evans
