Welcome to Year 3
We are delighted to welcome you to the Year 3 web page - this page will develop with more information over the school year. We hope that you will find all the information here that you require, if you have any suggestions we will be pleased to hear from you. Follow us on twitter - click here
Parent Information
Stationery list for pupils in Key Stage 2
Year 3 Teachers
Beech - Miss Kearns - Year lead
Rowan - Miss Hancock
Willow - Miss Jensen
Hawthorn - Miss Williams
Lead TA - Miss Lewis
PE Days
Beech - Outdoor PE - Thursday Indoor PE - Wednesday
Hawthorn - Outdoor PE - Tuesday Indoor PE - Thursday
Willow - Outdoor PE - Thursday Indoor PE - Thursday
Rowan - Outdoor PE - Tuesday Indoor PE - Wednesday
Information regarding PE kit can be found on the parents page of the website. Please ensure your child has PE kit appropriate for indoor and outdoor PE especially, during the Winter and early Spring months.
Timetables
Below is a sample timetable which reflects a typical week in Y3.
Library Days
Rowan - Monday
Willow - Tuesday
Beech - Thursday
Hawthorn - Friday
Please ensure that if your child has a book to return then it is brought into school on their library day.
Resources Required
Autumn 2 - Pop up books
TBC
Spring 2 -
TBC
What your child is learning:
Spring 2 - 2025
Summer 1 - 2025
Summer 2 - 2025
Homework
Please see the ‘how to support learning at home’ page for details on how to support your child.
https://www.williamhardingschool.co.uk/how-to-support-learning-at-home-home-collaboratio
Spelling
Here you can find the common exception words for Y3. Children are expected to know how to spell these words to help improve their writing.
Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words
Reading Rocks
We promote reading at home with our ‘Reading Rocks’ initiative. Class teachers will check the reading journals each week and award Dojo points to individual children accordingly and the class with the most points at the end of the half term will win a prize! Children read in school four times a day during SQUIRT lessons and have opportunities to choose books during Story time sessions. Children will also have the opportunity to choose a library book to take home and read. In Year 3 we use the Oxford Reading Buddy for books to read at home. Please see below the link to the login page.
Click here to access the Oxford Reading Buddy login page.
Suggested Reading List
Please find the suggested reading list below. Reading a book from this list will earn you ‘Reading Rocks’ points.
Phonics
In year 1 and year 2 children have focused on decoding, blending and segmenting of words to support children’s developments in reading and spelling. As the progress with their reading the focus turns to fluency in reading, which supports the children’s comprehension skills. We use ‘Read Write Inc’ to teach phonics, so you will hear the children refer to ‘Fred Talk’ (using sounds to sound out and decode words), and ‘Fred Fingers’ (using our fingers to help segment words for spelling). In year 3 some children will continue to develop their reading by continuing with Read Write Inc sessions, these sessions take place everyday for 30 minutes.
For more information about Read Write Inc click here.
Times Tables Rockstars
To develop and support children’s understanding of key multiplication facts, we are using Times Tables Rockstars alongside regular teaching within Maths sessions.
TimesTables Rockstars login page.
Knowledge Organisers
Knowledge organisers give an overview of what pupils will be learning in school over the course of their History, Geography or Art unit of work for the half term. Pupils have a copy of this in their Curriculum books to refer to within lessons. The Knowledge Organisers for each half term are available for you to download below so that you can support your child in discussing with them what they have been learning this week and build upon this learning at home, if you wish to do so.
Knowledge Organiser Geography - Autumn 1
Knowledge Organiser Science - Autumn 1
Knowledge Organiser Art- Autumn 1
Knowledge Organiser History - Autumn 2
Knowledge Organiser Science - Autumn 2
Knowledge Organiser DT - Autumn 2
Knowledge Organiser Geography - Spring 1
Knowledge Organiser Science - Spring 1
Knowledge Organiser Art - Spring 1
Knowledge Organiser History - Spring 2
Knowledge Organiser Science - Spring 2
Knowledge Organiser DT - Spring 2
Knowledge Organiser Geography - Summer 1
Knowledge Organiser Science - Summer 1
Knowledge Organiser Art - Summer 1
Knowledge Organiser Computing - Summer 1
Knowledge Organiser History - Summer 2