Welcome to 3GB

Teacher: Mrs Bryant

LSA: Mrs Squires

Welcome to our class page for the Summer term 2025.

We have lots of exciting learning that will be happening in our class over this half term. 

In English we will be reading 'The Thames and Tide club' and focusing on diary writing, mystery and fantasy stories, as well as the SPAG features within year 3.

We will also be teaching the skills of skimming and scanning a reading text and begin to look at how to answer retrieval questions (who, where, when to start) as well as 'find and copy words'.

In maths we will be looking at finding fractions and applying this to word problems and reasoning. We will also learning more about shape, measurement and time. 

We are using our Ashley Downs books to consolidate our 3x tables and then our 4x tables. Please help your child to learn these at home as well as division facts.

In the afternoon, we will be covering a range of subjects.

In geography we will be comparing the counties of Somerset and Greater Manchester with a focus on land use.

In the second half term, we will focus on Ancient China.

In PSHE we will be thinking about 'roles and responsibilites', as well as looking at our relationships with each other. We will then think about 'money matters' and how to be responsible savers!

In science we will learn about plants and light and shadows. We will complete investigations and plant seeds to take home.

In RE we will continue to look at Christianity and the stories in the Bible.

In music, children will continue to learn how to play the recorder with Mr Wolfe and look at the tempo of music.

Important information

Homework

Homework will be given out every Friday and be due in on Wednesday. This will be a piece of work in books to consolidate learning from that week. Children will have also have a sheet of spellings to learn which will also include the word of the week and two spellings from the statutory 3 and 4 word list. They will also have  a mixture of multiplication and division questions depending on which times table olympic level they are working on. Please help them to learn practice these daily. Here are some websites that may help you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9u3KxGCio8

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

https://ttrockstars.com/ 

There will be a times table test and spelling test every Thursday.

PE kits

The children do not need to bring PE kits to school. On Friday the children can come to school in their PE kits with their school jumper over the top. When it is colder, they are welcome to wear their joggers. Please ensure children wear appropriate footwear on these days too. 

Reading books

We use accelerated reader books for our reading. The children will complete a star reader test in school which will give us the children's book band level. Once they have read the book, they complete a comprehension quiz in class on their book. If they score above 80% they can move up to the next level. Children will read in school daily and quiz in school so it is really important their reading books are in everyday.