Welcome to Year 3!

Welcome to our Year 3 page. Here you will find useful information about our termly curriculum, PE days, homework expectations and useful websites.

We use our CLIC values to help us to learn to the best of our ability.

We believe that every child has the right-

C– to be a confident communicator

L– to learn

I– to improve their health

C– to be part of a community

At Netley Abbey Junior School, these ideas underpin all of our learning. With this in mind, please take some time to see what we have been up to in class.

If you would like any further information about our curriculum, please feel free to talk to our class teachers in the first instance who should be able to answer any queries. Alternatively, you can direct any questions to Mrs Rosie Earle, Federation Director of Teaching and Learning.

Please refer to the presentation given in July for general information that can be found here: Welcome to Year 3 Meeting PowerPoint 2024

Our Learning

Curriculum maps

Year 3 Autumn Term 1 Curriculum Map

Year 3 Autumn Term 2 Curriculum Map

Year 3 Spring Term 1 Curriculum Map 2025

Autumn Term 2024

What an exciting start we have had to Year 3! We have worked hard to use our Zones of Regulation to keep ourselves in the green zone to maintain our focus and to keep smiling! Our "Gotcha" smiles are beaming around the whole school!

In our story, "Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion," Little Red has gone missing!

Where is she? What could have happened to her? Has the Lion eaten her?

We are having great fun predicting, looking for clues and piecing them together. We have built a good vocabulary to describe the settings and characters and our next steps are to design WANTED posters for the Lion and MISSING posters for Little Red. We will out them up around school and hopefully someone will be able to help us soon!

In Geography, we are learning about the continents and oceans of the world, with a focus on Europe and the United Kingdom. Do you know the difference between the United Kingdom and Great Britain? Ask Year 3! Check out the curriculum map for a Geography home learning project. Can you find famous landmarks on Google Maps?

Spring Term 2025

Meet Our Teachers

SEAVIEW CLASS

Miss Wells

Year 3 Lead Teacher - Progress and Attainment Leader

DENZIL CLASS

Mrs Huntington

Class Teacher

PRIORY CLASS

Miss Williams

Class Teacher

Physical Education

The children need their full PE kit in school every day, including trainers.

We will send PE kits home every Friday to be washed and they must be returned to school each Monday please.

Earrings must be removed or covered in ear tape provided from home. Hair must be tied back.

The children have one indoor and one outdoor PE session each week.

Our PE days for Spring 2025 are:

Seaview – Monday and Thursday

Denzil - Monday and Friday

Priory – Monday and Wednesday

Homework

Homework will be set every Friday and must be completed by the

following Friday.

Please use your ClassLink QuickCard to access TT Rock Stars and Spelling Shed.

Each week, a Year 3 child is expected to complete:

READING Read at least 5 times a week and record a response in their reading record (this could be written by a child or by the adult reading with them); Reading records should be signed by an adult at least three times out of the five reads each week to enable children to receive reading "Readopoly" rewards
SPELLING Spelling Shed games will be set for the children to do at home; 5 games a week will be allocated based on out weekly taught spelling rules. Your teacher may give you some additional common exception words from KS1 to practise alongside.
TIMES TABLES The children can log in to Times Tables Rock Stars to practise the multiplication tables set for them by their teacher. We may use other games and ideas to help them through the term.

Spelling Homework

Each Friday, the children will have a dictation exercise that contains 6 of the 10 words we have been practising on Spelling Shed. This dictation will also include Common Exception Words from KS1 that the children have been practising in class, for example, if we have been learning ou sound spellings, and CEW "little, saw and with", the dictation might be "I saw a little round house with a spout!"

Once the children have built up 50 correct spellings over the term, they will receive their Bronze Spelling Award, 100 spellings earns them a Silver Award, and 150 spellings will earn them their Gold! If the children consistently get 5 or 6 correct a week through the year, they may even receive their 200 correct spellings Platinum Award!

Times Tables

Please continually practise your child’s times tables with them over the year. The government expectation is that children should know all times tables up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4. With this in mind, it is important children consolidate their learning regularly at home in order to meet age related expectations.

In Year 3, we learn the multiplication and associated division facts for the 5, 10, 2, 4, 8 and 3 times tables.

Library Days -

Spring Term 2025: Please ensure your two library books are in school on:

Seaview - Friday

Denzil - Wednesday

Priory - Friday

We are unable to issue new books until the ones on loan have been returned. Many thanks for your help with this.

Useful Websites

Recommended Reads

Many parents have asked if we can recommend age-appropriate challenging texts for their child.

Below are links to two book lists of ‘recommended reads’ which are suitable for Year 3 Readers and for More Able Readers:

SLS Booklists Able Readers at KS2

Year 3 Book list

Grammar Guide for Parents

This useful guide is an excellent tool when helping children with their homework or revising key grammar vocabulary:

A Parents_Guide to grammar