Year 3 2025 - 2026
Mrs Harland
Mrs Hodgson
Miss Curry
To contact the Year 3 team email Year3@elton.cheshire.sch.uk
Love Learning, Love Life, Always Aiming High
Welcome back to school, and to your final term in Year 3!
We hope you all had a lovely restful break. Didn't the Easter holidays fly by? Can you believe we're already in our last term in Year 3, and with it comes lots of new opportunities for learning. We hope you're as excited as we are to get started!
The Year 3 team are Mrs Harland, Mrs Hodgson and Miss Curry. We also have Miss Whitley, our associate teacher working with us for a few weeks, and hopefully Mrs Higginson will return to work with us at some point too. You can find more details below about which adults you can expect to see on which days of the week.
Mrs Harland Mrs Hodgson Miss Curry
Year 3 Structure
Monday and Tuesday: Miss Curry and Mrs Hodgson
Wednesday - Friday: Mrs Harland and Mrs Hodgson
Some of your PE sessions may be delivered by Mr Wynne from S4YC throughout the year.
PE
PE will mainly be delivered on Mondays and Wednesdays - although this may be subject to change. You will need to bring a PE kit in with you on the first day back after the holidays. However, 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, 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 every Friday 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 two 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:
Guided Reading book in Summer 1: The Illustrated Atlas of Britain and Ireland by Struan Reid and Megan Cullis
Guided Reading book in Summer 2: The Eygptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
English
In English we will be entering the magical world of fantasy through ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker and then we will focus on Zeraffa Giraffa by Dianne Hofmeyr. The first half term we will focus on the present perfect form of verbs; our use of prepositions; conjunctions and adverbs to express time, place and cause; our use of paragraphs to group related ideas; and our use of ‘a’ or ‘an’. We will then finish Year 3 looking at persuasive writing, when we will focus on increasing a range of sentence structures and using simple organisational devices to aid presentation.
Pathways to Write:
Summer 1: Journey by Aaron Becker
Summer 2: Zeraffa Giraffa by Dianne Hofmeyr
Maths
In Maths, our units of study for this half term include fractions, mass and capacity, money, time and shape. In fractions, we will look at how to recognise fractions as part of a whole, count fractions on a number line, add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and find fractions of an amount. We will be learning how to tell the time on both analogue and digital clocks, including telling the time to the nearest minute, and working out the time on a 24 hour clock. This is tricky, so the more you can practise this at home, the better. We will also learn to recognise right angles, and angles which are larger or smaller than 90 degrees, and will learn to recognise parallel, perpendicular, horizontal and vertical lines.
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 us, then please catch one of the Year 3 adults at the end of the day or email the class 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 us.
The Year 3 Team
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Useful Links
Files to Download
Year 3: News items
Last day before Easter Holidays, by Mrs Clark
March Parent Carer Forum Newsletter, by Mrs Clark
Year 1 and 2 Cake Sale, by Mrs Clark
