Year Three
Year 3 2023 - 2024
Welcome to Year 3RL
The Team
Class Teacher: Mrs Reynolds and Mrs Larkin
Teaching Assistant: Miss Birks
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Being a Christian
“The greatest commandment of all: “Listen Israel, the Lord your God is the one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: you must love your neighbour as yourself.” Mark 12: 29-30
“The truth of our union with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is tested by whether or not we really love our fellow men and women.” Pope John Paul II, 1979
Year 3 will develop their understanding of what being a Christian involves. They will reflect on the joy and challenges involved in following Jesus and learn about these through the lives of Ss. Peter and Paul. The children will reflect on their gifts and talents and the gifts the Church calls Sacraments, especially the Eucharist. They will reflect on how to use the gifts God has given to us to be a Christian .
At Home
You could help your child by:
• encouraging them to recognise their gifts and talents
• talk about how they can use their gifts and talents to help others
Reminders
Please ensure your child brings a water bottle to school every day.
Please label ALL clothing and belongings.
Parent/Carer Curriculum Information
For more information about what is being covered in the curriculum, please see the curriculum section on the website.
Homework
This half term homework will be reading, times tables and spellings.
The focus for the times tables for this year will be the 2, 5 and 10 times tables
Educational Visits:
We enrich our curriculum by arranging the following:
Topic based visits.
Visits to our parish church Holy Apostles and Martyrs.
Visits to our local theatre the Floral Pavilion.
Sports competitions at local schools.
Physical Education (PE)
Our P.E day is Tuesdays, please ensure your child comes in to school on Tuesdays wearing their PE Kit. The PE kit includes black or navy shorts, a white T-shirt and a pair of trainers. As PE lessons will largely be held outside, your child may need something warmer (eg black or navy jogging bottoms and their school sweatshirt or cardigan).For health and safety reasons, children cannot wear jewellery for PE, so all children need to either be able to remove their earrings or they should be removed in the morning before school.
Reading
The children are expected to read independently at home on a regular basis (15 minutes per night). They should keep a record in their diary of what they have read. Please listen to them read out loud and record this in their diary. Discuss any vocabulary that they are not sure of.
Please return book bags with reading books and reading diaries by Tuesday the latest so that they can be changed and sent out again.
Spellings
Children need to be able to read and spell all of the Year 3/4 by the end of Year 4. They also need to learn any spelling patterns and rules that are taught in class and then sent home. Click the file below to see the year 3/4 spelling list and practice some of the words at home. We have also added the Year 2 spelling list that some children still need to practise.
Times Tables
Y3 - By the end of Y3 children are expected to know their 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 times tables and associated division facts. Please ensure that the children keep their recall skills sharp.
If you want to do some extra practice in Maths, have a look at Oak Academy. This term, we will be covering Place Value followed by Addition and Subtraction.
Click on the title to access the website.