Year 3 2026 - 2027
Mrs Higginson
Miss Coleman
To contact the Year 3 team email Year3@elton.cheshire.sch.uk
Love Learning, Love Life, Always Aiming High
Hello and welcome to your first term in Year 3,
We hope that you enjoyed the summer break and are well rested and ready for your first term in Year 3! We have lots of exciting things planned for this term and we are certainly excited to welcome you all to Key Stage 2. We know that many of you will be worried about the move, but all of the adults in our class will be there to support you with the changes.
Adults
Your teachers are Miss Coleman (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Higginson (Wednesday).
We are also fortunate to have Miss Gibson and Miss Wellings with us. Mrs Hodgson will cover some afternoon lessons as our HLTA. Some of your PE sessions will be delivered by Mr Wynne from S4YC.
PE
PE will mainly be delivered on Mondays and Fridays - although this may be subject to change. It is always a good idea to have your PE kit in all week. We send them home every half term to be washed, however, if you do take them home before then, please make sure they're back in school the following day. Don’t forget - all PE kits must be named, including socks and shoes.
Homework
In Year 3 you will be given Learning Log and maths homework on a Friday, this needs to be handed back in on a Wednesday. Throughout Year 3, we will be working hard on learning our times tables ready for the times table check in Year 4. To support you in learning your times tables, you will have access to Times Table Rock Stars at home and will also be set weekly times tables to learn.
Spellings will be sent home at the start of the half term, and you will be directed to the list we are working on weekly. We won’t be formally testing spellings but instead will expect you to use those words in your work each week.
Reading
It is important to continue to read at home regularly to improve comprehension skills and fluency. We ask that you read at least three times a week with your adults, and that your reading record is signed by the adult. Your reading record must be handed in twice a week to allow teachers to check any comments and support you with reading at home, this will be on a Monday and a Thursday.
Reading books should be changed at least once a week, and whilst we will remind you to do this, you will be able to do this readily just outside the classroom. You will have access to our class’s extensive range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction books, magazines, and newspapers as well as a fantastic set of levelled books in the Key Stage 2 corridor. In class, we will undertake guided reading, quiet reading, shared reading and reading for pleasure, in addition to working through a class book in English.
Pathways to Read:
Our Pathways to Read text for autumn 1 is The Sea Book by Charlotte Milner and autumn 2 we will look at Ice Palace by Robert Swindells.
English
In English we will be riding the waves of ‘seal Surfer’ and shivering with ‘Winter’s Child’ through our class texts. In our first term as Year 3, we will engage with a poetry unit and then will start to look at writing letters linked to our first text. We will develop our use of prepositions and paragraphs. We will also start to develop our use of speech, looking at inverted commas. As we enter the second half term, we will develop our use of vocabulary, looking specifically at describing winter settings. Within this unit, we will build up to writing a narrative looking specifically at our use of adverbs, speech, and vocabulary choices.
Pathways to Write –
Autumn 1= Seal Surfer By Michael Foreman
Autumn 2= Winter’s Child by Angela McAllister
Maths
In maths we will be building on your place value skills and will also begin to develop our knowledge of addition and subtraction. Within place value, we will
focus on working with numbers to 1000: comparing and ordering; and finding 1, 10 and 100 more or less. Once we have developed our knowledge of numbers to 1000, we will then begin to look at developing our formal written methods for adding and subtracting numbers to 1000. We will also continue to develop our times table knowledge throughout the term.
Water Bottles
It is really important, particularly at the moment, that you bring in your own water bottle every day. You must take it home each evening for it to be washed. Please bring your own, named bottle each day. You will be allowed to refill it throughout the day, if you drink all your water.
Support
At the top of the page you can find links to download useful files, such as the Learning Leaflets and homework support. You can also find useful website links below and videos to support you at home.
Grown-ups, if you have any questions or would like to speak to me, then please catch me at the end of the day, when I will have the most time to talk, or email year3@elton.cheshire.sch.uk . Alternatively, if you have an urgent enquiry, then please contact the school office, who can relay any messages to me.
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