Teachers: Mrs Kirby (Monday to Wednesday) and Mrs Smith (Wednesday to Friday)

Teaching Assistant:  Miss Hayes and Mrs Lutsiak

Our School Day

To find out details of how the Y3 pupils spend their time, please take a look at the timeline of our school day. Important times to note are arrival time (8.40am) and registration (8.50am). It is important the children are at school and settled in time for the day to begin.

Curriculum Support

The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests. If you would like to know more about each individual subject please visit our Curriculum Page. Each term our class topic will link in to the curriculum in a way that brings the subjects to life for the children. 

Spring Term 

Please took a look at our Curriculum Map to see what the children will be learning in each subject during the Spring Term.

PE

Our PE days are on Monday and Friday. Please click here to find out PE kit requirements.

Forest School

We are very lucky to be able to offer regular Forest School sessions to all our classes at the Rosary School. Our grounds are perfect to help the children connect and engage with the outdoors, and learn through active and exciting tasks and challenges such as den building, making a fire or tools, and identifying insects and birds. Y3 Forest School sessions are every three weeks on Fridays.  Children will need to wear Forest School kit to school on these days, details of which can be found along with the session timetable, as links from the Forest School page.

Reading & Book Change

The children are encouraged to read the books they choose at school regularly. It would be most helpful if you can take time to read with them every week (4 times a week minimum) and record your comments in their reading record. When they are familiar with the book they should change it for a new one. Our book change day is on Monday. 

English & SPaG

This term the children will be exploring several texts including 'Cinderella of the Nile' by Beverley Naidoo, a twist on a traditional tale. Followed by a film clip called 'Tadeo Jones' leading to a diary entry. Finally writing a mystery narrative based on 'The Iron Man' by Ted hughes. 

Rainbow and Read, Write Inc Spellings

Our Rainbow Spellings in each year group focus on 'tricky words' that are commonly misspelled or do not follow regular rules. These words are re-visited two years in a row and are tested every Friday. In Year 3 we will be continuing Read Write Inc Spellings which focus on the rules of spellings. These will be tested every Monday. 

Maths

This term the children will be developing their number skills, including:

• Addition and Subtraction - written Methods 
• Fractions

Take a look at the Maths summary document below to help you understand what your child is learning.

Rainbow Maths

There is a National Curriculum requirement for children to know their times tables up to 12 x12 by the end of Year 4, at which point they take an online test. To support this objective, children from Year 2 onwards take part in regular Rainbow Maths tests. Each new academic year they start on 'Red' and work their way up through Orange, Yellow and so on. The document below shows what is required for each colour.

Our Class Saint - St Bernadette of Lourdes

Feast Day: 16th April

Saint Bernadette was born into a very poor family. She had a pleasant personality, very poor health, and bad asthma. Bernadette helped her mother around the house and helped to take care of her siblings. As a young teenager, she had a series of visions of the Virgin Mary in the Massabielle grotto, ultimately leading to the founding of the shrine of Lourdes.

Additional Curriculum Resources

For further resources to support your child across all subjects, please visit our Curriculum page which features links to many useful sites.