🌟 Thank You for Your Continued Support! 🌟

A huge thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our Parent–Teacher meetings this week. It was an absolute pleasure speaking with you about your wonderful children, celebrating their achievements and discussing the fantastic progress they are making in their learning. It is always lovely to share their successes and work together to support their next steps.

Following on from our meetings, we will be placing a big focus on times tables in Year 3. We would really appreciate your support in encouraging your child to use TTRS regularly at home. Little and often really does make a big difference in building confidence, fluency and quick recall!

Reading is equally important! We ask that all children read every day, complete their reading quizzes at home and bring their reading journals into school regularly. Developing strong reading habits is fundamental to children's progress across all areas of learning.

To ensure everyone is keeping on track, we will be contacting parents if we notice that reading journals are not being brought into school or reading quizzes are not being completed at home. These are essential routines that make a real difference to children's learning and progress.

To access AR Quizzes and TTRS, navigate to: Upton Junior School - Online Learning

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and partnership. By working together, we can help every child grow in confidence, develop a love of learning and achieve their very best! 🌟

🌱Personal Development Week 

This week, we have been exploring Personal Development, and as such, learning has focused on protected characteristics. As part of our curriculum, we’ve been learning specifically about: race, religion or beliefs, pregnancy or maternity. We’ve also been exploring different types of relationships that exist and how we can build healthy ones. We’ve discussed how relationships can be with family, friends, classmates, teachers, and even ourselves.  

Children have also learnt: 

• about different types of relationships (friends, family, relatives). 

• to understand civil partnerships and marriages. 

• to understand what cyber bullying is and how to keep safe online. 

In the coming weeks, classrooms and playgrounds will focus on guiding children through key strategies for building healthy relationships. Learning to develop meaningful and positive connections early in life sets the foundation for children to have strong interpersonal skills that can benefit them throughout their lives. 

Thematic : 🪨 PreHistory Rocks! 🦣

Get ready for a journey back in time!

Next week, we will be launching our exciting new thematic topic, ‘PreHistory Rocks!’, where we will travel thousands of years into the past to discover what life was like during the Stone Age.

We will explore how prehistoric people lived, what they ate, where they sheltered and how they survived without the modern comforts we enjoy today.

To kick-start our learning, we will be having a very special WOW Day on Monday! 🌟

The children will take part in a range of exciting, hands-on activities designed to spark their curiosity, ignite their imaginations and bring the Stone Age to life!

We can't wait to begin our prehistoric adventure and discover what amazing things the past has to teach us.

Let the Stone Age adventure begin! 🦴🪨

Our Knowledge Organiser:

🔢 Maths

This week in Maths, we have been developing our mental addition skills by exploring a range of strategies to help us add numbers efficiently and confidently.

We have been using part-part-whole models to partition numbers and understand how they fit together. We have also used Dienes blocks to support us when adding multiples of 10 to three-digit numbers.

In addition, we have been practising the Make 10 strategy, helping us use our number bonds to make calculations quicker and easier.

Next week, we will build on our learning by exploring different mental strategies for subtraction!

Mathematical Vocabulary:

         

✏️ English:

This week in English, we have started exploring our exciting new book, 'Gregory Cool'. The story follows Gregory as he travels to Tobago to spend four weeks with his grandparents.

The children have been exploring the thoughts and feelings of the main character, considering how Gregory might feel as he adjusts to a new environment and experiences a different way of life.

We have been developing our use of emotive language, choosing vocabulary carefully to express feelings and emotions. The children have put these skills into practise by writing a letter in role as Gregory, sharing his thoughts and feelings.

Next week, we will build on our learning by developing our recount writing skills, focusing on writing a detailed and engaging letter from Gregory's perspective of the whole trip.

English Vocabulary:

          

Year 3 Term 2 timetables:

 

🏠 Home Learning

📖 Reading: Children should read at least 3 times each week and bring their reading journal into school on these days so that we can celebrate and monitor their reading.

🔢 TTRS: Regular practice will help children develop their fluency and confidence with times tables.

Thank you for your continued support in helping your child develop these important skills at home.

Times Tables Rock Stars

• Tasks to be completed online.

• Children’s logins are stuck in their Reading journal.

Reminders:

• Year 3 have PE on Fridays and should come to school dressed in the correct school PE kit.

• 3R and 3Y will swim on Tuesdays this term- children will need to come dressed in their PE kit to school on this day, and bring with them their swimming costumes to change into. 

• Swimming kit reminder: full swimming costume/swim shorts. All children must wear a swimming hat and will be expected to remove jewellery (including stud earings).

Key messages:

• Please can children ensure they bring a Healthy snack in for breaktimes.

• Children are provided with a school pencil case and so do not need to bring in pencil cases from home or any other toys/resources.

• Children will also need to make sure they have a pair of wellies and a raincoat in school, so that they are able to make full use of the outdoor activities at playtimes.

Have a great weekend!

The Year 3 Team