Welcome to Class 3

Welcome to Class 3

Miss Hamilton - Teacher

Mrs Battle - Teaching Assistant

Miss Crawford - PPA cover (Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning) 

Our Class saint is Kateri Tekakwitha. Her feast day is on the 14th July.

St. Kateri Tekakwitha is known as the "Lily of the Mohawks" because she lived her life with kindness and faith, like a beautiful flower blooming in the forest. Even though life was hard for her, Kateri found great joy and love in Jesus. She was baptized a Catholic when she was 20 years old. Many people admired her because she was gentle, humble, and spent her time praying and helping others. She loved being close to nature and saw God's beauty in the trees, animals, and rivers. Kateri died young, at the age of 24, but her faith and love for God inspired so many people. She became the first Native American saint in 2012! 

• PE day is on a Wednesday. Pupils will need to wear black or navy joggers, leggings or shorts, a white t-shirt and trainers.
• Recorder lessons will take place every Thursday. 
• Reading books - Please read with your child as often as possible, as this will improve confidence and fluency. Reading books should be changed at least once a week. 
• We aim to take the children to the library every week, so please ensure these books are brought back on the assigned days so they can be changed.

Autumn Term 2025 

Regular times tables practice will help children within their Maths lessons. These can be practiced on Times Table Rock stars, which all children have to access to through their own personal log in. 

In Class 3, children should know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables confidently. This term, we will be securing the 3, 4 and 8 times tables, which your child should practice to become confident.  Once these are secure, please support your child in learning the rest of the times tables, as this will help them when it comes to the statutory times tables test at the end of Year 4. 

Our topics this term are Fractions, Money and Mass and Capacity. We will also be revising our arithmetic skills with Miss Crawford on a Thursday morning.

This half-term we will be focusing on two different books: The Forgettery by Rachel Ip and The Search for our Cosmic Neighbours by Chloe Savage. We will be completing two different pieces of writing, a narrative about finding memories, and an exploration narrative. The children will try to include new learning in their writing, such as time, place and cause prepositions and adverbs, using 'a' and 'an' correctly, using direct speech and writing with a wider range of vocabulary.

Our topic this half-term is Plants. This half-term, we are learning about different species of plants, what they need to survive and what they can provide.

We are completing the topic ‘Celebrating Easter and Pentecost’ this half term. 

In this unit we will reflect on the resurrection of Jesus and his ascension to Heaven. We will develop our understanding of what Easter means and link this with our own emotions and thoughts on the death and resurrection of Christ. We will also be reflecting on our own experiences of being in need.

During this term we will be learning about the Iron Age. This half-term, we are learning about the important tribes during this time, the dwellings they lived in and how iron was made and used at that time.

During this term we will be learning about The Ring of Fire, how volcanoes are formed and where they are found.

Our topics this term are Being My Best and Growing and Changing.

Our topic this half-term is cityscapes.

Our topic this half-term is Creating Media - Desktop Publishing. We will become familiar with the terms ‘text’ and ‘images’ and understand that they can be used to communicate messages. We will use desktop publishing software and consider careful choices of font size, colour and type to edit and improve premade documents. We will be introduced to the terms ‘templates’, ‘orientation’, and ‘placeholders’ and begin to understand how these can support them in making our own template for a magazine front cover. We will start to add text and images to create our own pieces of work using desktop publishing software. We will look at a range of page layouts thinking carefully about the purpose of these and evaluate how and why desktop publishing is used in the real world.

We will continue practicing our speaking, listening, reading and writing skills by learning and consolidating some basic vocabulary and conversational skills.  

Our topic this half term is Rounders.