Year 3 Spring Term

Things to remember

• School opens at 8:40am each day and all children are expected to be in class by 8:50am
• School finishes at 3:00pm
• Homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned no

later than the following Wednesday

• PE days are Tuesday & Thursday

For Parents / Carers – Supporting your child at home

Please continue to help your child by

• Ensuring all possessions, including uniform have names on
• Encouraging your child to be as independent as possible
• Listening to them read regularly
• Practising maths skills, especially times tables 3x, 2x, 5x, 4x, 8x.
• Encouraging and supporting with homework

Key Dates

• World Book Day – Thursday 5^th March
• Sport Relief Week – Beginning Monday 9^th March
• Whole class photos – Wednesday 18^th March
• Week of 23^rd March – parental drop ins for guided reading, days / times TBC
• Science Roadshow – Monday 23^rd March
• Wear a hat day – Thursday 26^th March (Raising funds for Brain Tumour Research)
• Year 3 / 4 visit to Touchstones – Wednesday 1^st April
• World Autism Awareness Day – Wear something blue - Thursday 2^nd April
• Last day of term - Friday 3^rd April 2020
• Children return to school – Monday 20^th April

Reading

Children will be rewarded for reading at home and this will be celebrated in Friday assembly.

• Bronze award – 18 books
• Silver award – 36 books
• Gold award – 54 books

Children need to bring their record to school each morning for checking.

Curriculum – What will the children be learning about during this half term?

English

We will be reading ‘Alice in Wonderland’ the abridged version by Emma Chichester Clark. The children will be retelling the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party from the viewpoint of the main character Alice.

Please support your child in learning their spellings. These will be sent home weekly on a Monday in preparation for our weekly spelling test each Friday.

Maths

This half term we will be learning about money, statistics, length and fractions.

Please support your child in learning their times tables and division facts particularly 3x, 4x and 8x.

Help your child’s understanding by asking them to find the correct change for items in a shop.

Topic

Our topic this half term is a local history study about the Rochdale Pioneers. We will be learning about how the Co-operative was first started by a group of ordinary people on Toad Lane in Rochdale in 1844.