Miss. McInally is our teacher in Cedar Class, covering Miss. McBride's maternity leave.

Ms. MacDiarmid is our teacher in Hazel Class.

Miss. Charmley, Mrs. Welsh, Mrs. Platt, Mrs. Davies, and Mr. Lythgoe work with us in Year 3.

 

Life in Year 3:

The children in Year 3 are looking forward to an amazing Autumn Term in 2025. 

Each day, we have a focused session on Reading, Writing, Maths and Shared Reading/Phonics.

We also enjoy lots of opportunities to study Science, Computing, Spanish, History, Geography, PSHE, RE, Art, DT, PE, and Music.

This half-term, both Cedar and Hazel classes will have PE on a Friday afternoon.

Your child will need a yellow Pinehurst t-shirt, navy shorts/joggers, and a pair of pumps or trainers in school to take part.  

 

Our Curriculum:

At Pinehurst Primary School, we are very proud to offer a broad and balanced curriculum that provides our children with a range of opportunities to Experience, Excel and Enjoy.

We consistently endeavour to foster a lifelong love of learning through quality-first teaching.

A cross-curricular approach to learning encourages the children to be independent, reflective learners who will grow to be responsible citizens.

Through our website, Twitter (X) feed, Class Dojo pages, and weekly school newsletter, we work closely with our families to support our children’s learning and celebrate our successes.

English and Maths skills that we will be developing in Year 3

English:

We follow a quality text based approach to English. This half-term, our quality text is: Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura.

This year we will be reading and discussing a variety of texts, reading aloud, making predictions, and summarising what we have read. We will be using dictionaries to check the meanings of new words and show understanding of what we have read through drama and role-play activities. We will be also be reading different texts in school during shared reading sessions. 

We aim to improve our writing this year by planning, drafting and proofreading our work for errors and improvements. Once we are fuly competent with our letter formation, we will start to use the horizontal and diagonal strokes needed to join letters and increase the legibility and consistency of our handwriting.

During our Spelling lessons, we will be learning about how to add prefixes and suffixes to words to change their meaning and how to choose appropriate homophones for our writing for example: berry/bury, great/grate, main/mane, here/hear, etc. We will also be learning how to spell the words on our Year 3/4 word list.

Our Grammar focus will be on adding detail and interest to our sentences through the use of conjunctions to join and extend sentences. We will use adverbs and preopsitions to express time, place and cause, and use nouns and pronouns for clarity and cohesion. We will continue to punctuate different sentence types correctly, as well as learning how to use the possesive apostrophe, and how to punctuate direct speech with inverted commas. 

Maths: 

In Maths we will be exploring the following:

Numbers to 1000

Addition and Subtraction

Multiplication and Division

Length

Mass

Volume

Money

Time

Pictograms and Bar Graphs

Fractions

Angles

Lines and Shapes

Perimeter of Figures

Wider Curriculum in Year 3:

This half-term our topics include:

Science - Animals, including Humans

Geography - Our Local Area

Art - Drawing: Paul Klee

PE - Dance and Invasion Games

Computing - Becoming Digital Citizens

RE - Why is the Bible important for Christians today?

PSHE - Jigsaw: Being Me in My World

Spanish - The World Around Us

Music - Florence Price

Please see our Curriculum Newsletter at the bottom of the page for more information. 

  

How can I help and support my child at school?

Please encourage your child to read at home as much as possible. You can record their reading in their Home Reading Diary.  

Reading books should be read at least three times before being returned to school to change for a new one.

Please ensure that your child brings their bookbag to school every day.

Books will be changed when they have been read three times and signed by an adult at home.

  

Homework in Year 3:

Homework is posted on our Class Dojo platform, and may also be sent home as a paper exercise.

Homework activities will include a mix of Reading, English, Maths, Spellings and Wider Curriculum.

Logins for Class Dojo, Spelling Shed, and Times Tables Rock Stars are sent home at the beginning of each half-term.

Please contact your child's class teacher if you are having difficulty accessing Class Dojo so you don't miss any important messages.

 

Key websites your child can use to support their learning in Year 3:

Phonics & Spelling:

https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/ 

Reading:

https://www.readliverpool.co.uk/

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

Maths:

https://mathsnoproblem.com/en/mastery/what-is-maths-mastery/

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning 

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://numbots.com/ 

Practical ideas to support your child with their learning:

Sharing books, reading with and to your child. 

Visiting places of interest, talking to your child about them, and encouraging them to ask questions.

Places you may choose to visit: the library, country parks and local nature reserves, museums, etc. 

Finding time to play and work with others. 

Seizing any opportunities to be creative.

To keep up to date with our learning journey, don’t forget to follow us on X:

School account: @PinehurstP

Cedar Class account: @MissMcBride20

Hazel Class account: @Y3HazelClass

Please share your learning outside of school - we love seeing the amazing work our families do at home to support learning!