Year 3
Weekly Update - Friday 20th June 2025
Summary of this week:
Wow – what a hot week it has been. The children have been brilliant continuing their learning and keeping as cool as possible! We have enjoyed writing our own versions of “The Egyptian Cinderella”, focusing on speech marks and exciting adjectives. We started our new Geography unit on “Settlements” and learnt the words “dispersed, nucleated and linear”. In Art, we designed miniature playgrounds using 3D shapes and we look forward to making these next week!
Our learning next week:
Maths: We will be revising how to find fractions of amounts (e.g 3/5 of 15) and will also be starting our new unit on “Shape” – looking at the properties of 3D shapes.
English: We will be planning and writing innovated versions of a fairytale of our choice. For example, rather than having The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff with the angry troll, the children might have The Three Gentle Seals with a malicious polar bear!
In our Reading lessons, we will continue to unpick the book “One Tiny Turtle”, looking at the meaning of tricky words in context and summarising factual information we have retrieved from the text.
Foundation:
In Geography, we will be exploring the human and physical features in our local area, looking at maps and identifying what different symbols mean.
In Science, we will be learning about friction and setting up and experiment to test how quickly a toy car can move on different surfaces.
In Art, we will be starting to make our own miniature playgrounds, thinking about 3D shapes and abstract sculptures, to inspire our ideas.
In PE, we will be doing orienteering with Mrs Line and Tri Golf with Coach Jay.
Homework
Maths
The Maths homework sheet will be given out on Tuesdays – please could children complete this and hand it in by Friday so teachers can mark, provide feedback and hand back by the following week.
Children are encouraged to use Times Table Rockstars for extra multiplication practise, a few times each week. Little and often is recommended! Logins and passwords are stuck inside the cover of the children’s maths homework books. Teachers will continue to award TTRS certificates on a Friday for those children that are using the website regularly throughout the week and making good progress with their times tables learning! 😊
Spelling
Please continue to practise the weekly spelling words at home in whichever way your child finds most useful.
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Notices & Reminders:
This note has been sent out via parent reps on the whatsapp groups:
As part of our Art unit on sculptures, next week the children will be using different materials to create their own miniature playground art. The children should have bought home a piece of paper or note with a list of materials that they would like to use for their designs.
If the children can bring in their materials for next Tuesday (24th June), this is when we will be making our 3D artwork.
Each child will need one cereal box for their base (this should be their largest item) as well as any extra items such as toilet/kitchen rolls, string, pipe cleaners, chop sticks, bottle lids, lolly sticks and anything else that could decorate their playground. Please remember that the children will be cutting their own packaging so please do not send in thick card or packaging.
Thank you as always for your support,
Miss Bullock, Mr Harber, Mrs Secker, Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Milner.
Welcome to Year 3
Please find below the presentation from our Year 3 Parents Information Evening held in September 2024, which provides useful information for parents and carers about Year 3 at Eastwick in 2024-25.
Year 3 Parents Information Evening 2024-25
Contact
Supporting learning at home
Reading
Colour Book Band Progression Chart - KS2
Guided Reading Question Cards - Non-Fiction
Reading prompts for small group instruction
Spelling
Year 3 Summer Term Spellings 2024
Maths
Addition and Subtraction - Parents Guide
Year 3 Multiplication Parent GuideYear 3 Division Parent Guide
Maths Fluency Guide For Parents