Welcome to Year 3! We are delighted to welcome your child to what promises to be an exciting and rewarding year of learning. We look forward to working in partnership with you throughout the year to help your child grow in confidence, develop new skills and achieve their full potential.

As children move into Key Stage 2, we have high expectations for both learning and behaviour. We encourage every child to follow our school behaviour code of Ready, Respectful, Safe. Positive behaviour and effort are recognised and celebrated regularly. Children who consistently demonstrate our values will be acknowledged on our Recognition Board and enjoy our weekly Recognition Time, where they can celebrate their achievements through fun and engaging activities. We look forward to celebrating your child's successes with you throughout the year.

Within English this term, we will enjoy studying the exciting novel ‘Kindlekrax’ by Philip Ridley, alongside extracts from the much-loved classic ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ by A. A. Milne and ‘The Ice Palace’ by Robert Swindells. These high-quality texts will inspire our reading and writing while helping children develop their vocabulary, comprehension, prosody and listening skills, building on the strong foundations established in Year 2.

In Mathematics, we will begin by strengthening our understanding of place value, ensuring children are confident with counting, partitioning and representing numbers. Throughout the year, we will also develop skills in:

• Addition and subtraction
• Multiplication and division
• Fractions
• Measurement
• Geometry and properties of shape
• Statistics and data handling.

Our lessons will encourage children to become confident, fluent and resilient mathematicians who can apply their learning to a range of real-life problems.

In Science, we will be exploring the exciting topic of Forces and Magnets. Children will investigate how different forces, such as pushes, pulls and friction, affect the way objects move on different surfaces. Later in the term, we will study the human body, focusing on the skeletal and muscular systems and discovering how healthy choices help us to stay fit and well.

To support learning in school, we ask children to complete the following each week:

• Read for at least 15 minutes each day, with reading recorded and signed in their planner
• Practise times tables and number facts regularly to prepare for our weekly mental arithmetic tests
• Learn their weekly spellings, which will be sent home on Monday and tested on Friday
• Complete the assigned CGP Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Reading Comprehension, and Mathematics activities.

Children are also encouraged to explore the optional extension tasks available on our year group page as well as signing up to the Summer Reading Challenge (http://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk).

Thank you for your continued support. By working together, we can ensure your child has a happy, successful and memorable Year 3. We are excited for the year ahead and look forward to sharing many wonderful learning experiences and achievements with you.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Treanor, Mrs Beceiro and Mrs Jamil

Year 3 Class Teachers.