Welcome to Year 3 Willow Class Page

Spring 2025

WELCOME TO YEAR 3

Year 3 staff would like to wish you a happy new year and a warm welcome back to school. It has been wonderful to see all the pupils wearing their uniform with pride and greeting friends and staff with happy smiles, kind words and good manners. We had a wonderful previous term working together, from making fabric boxes to celebrating advent.

We have already had an excellent start to our Spring Term and want to continue this with many more exciting moments and challenges for the children.

YEAR 3 STAFF

If you need any support or would like to discuss how we can best work in partnership to support your child in school, we are always here to help. Your class teacher is always the first point of contact, followed by Miss Crosbee as Lower Key Stage 2 Lead. For any advice on special educational needs, it may be appropriate, after speaking with the class teacher, to also contact Mrs Whitehead, who is our school Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCO).

Smaller queries can often be answered at drop off times, however for more private conversations, or those that may take a little longer, please make an appointment by discussing this with the teacher or calling the school office instead.

Please be advised that collection time is a very busy time, and not a time when we can give you our full attention.

Miss Cussons: Y3 Teacher (Beech)

Miss Bretherton Y3 Teacher (Willow)

Mrs O’Reilly, Miss Ashcroft: and Miss Green Teaching Assistants

Computing: Mr Keaney (MGL) 

PE: Mr Lee (Little Sports Coaches) 

Miss Hughes (Covers Willow for Miss Bretherton’s ECT time) 

ATTENDANCE

Good attendance and punctuality are vital, not only for learning, but also to help pupils settle into their new school routine, make friends and grow in confidence.

Each week, every class with 100% attendance is rewarded with a voucher, which can be spent to celebrate the achievement in whatever way the class decides. In Year 3 we are fiercely competitive- help us to be the best by being in school every day and on time!

Our classroom door opens at 8.45am for the start of the day and collection time is at 3.15pm.

Spring Curriculum Coverage

English	Book 1: The Rhythm of the Rain Writing Outcomes: Setting Narrative and River Information Leaflet Book 2: Jemmy Button Writing Outcomes: Return Narrative and Information Letter
Maths	Multiplication & Division, Length and Perimeter, Fractions, Mass and Capacity
RE	Journeys, Sharing and Listening and Giving all
History	Rome and the impact on Britain
Geography	UK Study
Science	Forces and Magnets and Plants
Computing	Prediction and Debugging Altering Media
PE	Dance Skills and Net & Wall Skills Our PE lessons are on Thursdays. Children are to come into school wearing the school PE kit.
Art	Painting – Using watercolours, thick paints and a variety of brushes and techniques
Design & Technology	Mechanisms and Food and Nutrition
Music	Composing using your imagination and Sharing musical experiences
PSHE	Dreams and Goals and Healthy Me

HOMEWORK

Building good learning habits at home and reinforcing learning that happens at school is important. To help with this, regular homework will be set and engagement with this greatly appreciated.

Daily reading of books sent home- these are changed weekly

(please write in the blue reading record each time you read with your child to help

them earn a Reading Champion Badge on our class display)

Weekly Spelling and Handwriting practise (as part of spelling practise)

Regular and ongoing times tables practise online using TTRockstars, particularly the 4

and 8 times tables alongside their division facts.

(pupils will be provided with user names and passwords)

READING

Developing strong readers is our priority. All pupils read in school daily and have already this week had reading practise sent home, coinciding with their reading stage. Reading each day, with your child at home, will help to accelerate learning and help your child to grow in confidence. Please help us by writing in the blue home-school reading record when you read with your child, keeping the home school partnership strong. We will be celebrating regular reading by awarding Reading Champion Badges in school, on our class display. Pupils have already started working towards earning their first badge, which is fantastic.

Here are some Y3 book recommendations, which you can enjoy reading

at home with your child in addition to the ones we send home weekly.

More information on reading, and the rest of the curriculum, can be

found on our school website. https://stteresaoflisieux.co.uk/

Remember to also follow our Twitter page and keep up with what

we are doing on our class pages on the school website.

X (Twitter): @teresaoflisieux

Books we will be exploring as part of the English curriculum this term