Emerald Class

Welcome to Year 3! Here we start our journey in the juniors, where the children will continue to grow their independence. We have an exciting year planned, and we cannot wait to get started with you all. In line with our SHINE motto ‘Learn Together, Shine Forever’, we have chosen gemstone names for each class. In Year 3, we are known as the gemstone Emerald.

Themes

Over the course of the year, we will be teaching three main themes. Within these themes, the children will be developing their knowledge, interests and skills to cover all of the curriculum areas. Additionally, our Ethos is rooted in our Christian values. These values permeate through our curriculum, behaviour and attitude toward one another.

A typical day in Year 3:

We have our core lessons in the morning: Reading, English and Maths (including Mastering Number & Spellings). In the afternoon, we teach our foundation subjects, including: Art & Design, Design & Technology, History, Science, Geography, PSHE (Scarf), Computing, French, Music, PE & RE. 

PE is on Thursdays. Your child should come to school in their kit (coloured top, plain shorts or joggers, with a school jumper over the top). 

Home Learning & Reading

• Reading every night - Children to bring in every day. Grown-ups, please sign and comment in their reading records at least once a week.
• Maths - Maths.co.uk weekly quizzes online (logins are in their reading records)
• English - A worksheet will be sent home weekly.

Healthy snacks and water bottles:
As we are a healthy school, the children will only be allowed a healthy snack at break times. Snacks include: fruit, vegetables, fruit bars, fruit pots and yogurt. Please make sure the children bring in their own water bottles each day.

How else can you help your child at home?
Within Key Stage 2, your child will be expected to learn their times tables. As a result of this, we will be focusing on our tables in maths lessons but we also ask that you practice and support your children at home with these. We will be adding a range of web links and apps to Showbie that children can access at home to support them with their tables.

Showbie (learning platform):

Please log into this at the earliest opportunity, as we will aim to use it to share messages and add links to websites that will benefit your child. Please ensure that you turn on the notifications so that you do not miss any important updates. Your child’s log in username and password are the same for Showbie, AR Reader and Times Table Rockstars (TTRS) – this will be at the front of their Reading Record.

Parent helpers
If you are interested in volunteering at the school, listening to readers or sharing expertise for example, then we would love to hear from you. Please let the office know and we will do our best to make timings work for yourselves and the school.

Finally, if you have any questions, concerns or would like to speak to any member of the Year 3 team, we are available at the end of the day and will be more than happy to support you with anything that you need.

Many thanks

The Year 3 Team