Y3 – Latest Class Notices

Please ask your child if their glue stick has run out and provide them with a new one if needed.

Calendar/Key Dates:

Monday 25th May – Half term

Saturday 20th June – Belmont summer fair

Thursday 2nd July – Year 3 trip to central London/Mithraeum

This noticeboard will be updated on Wednesday afternoons to share homework and keep you updated with life in Year 3.

 

Please note, the following content will be taught in Year 3 this term. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher:

 

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)Summer 2: Changing Me
Taught Knowledge:

  • Know that the male and female body needs to change at puberty so their bodies can make babies when they are adults
  • Know some of the outside body changes that happen during puberty
  • Know some of the changes on the inside that happen during puberty
  • Know that in animals and humans lots of changes happen between conception and growing up
  • Know that in nature it is usually the female that carries the baby
  • Know that in humans a mother carries the baby in her uterus (womb) and this is where it develops
  • Know that babies need love and care from their parents/carers
  • Know some of the changes that happen between being a baby and a child

Key Vocabulary: Birth, Animals, Babies, Mother, Grow, Uterus, Womb, Nutrients, Survive, Love, Affection, Care, Puberty, Sperm, Ovaries, Egg, Ovum/ova, Womb/uterus, Stereotypes, Task, Roles, Challenge

Please note vocabulary from previous years will be consolidated.

 

If you have any questions, please contact your child’s class teacher.

 

 

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Y3 – Learning this week

Learning in school this week:
EnglishThe Day the Crayons Quit
MathsFractions
Learning next week:
EnglishLeon and the Place Between
MathsMoney
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Y3 – Homework/ Home Learning

ReadingDaily (15-20 mins)

Please ensure that all books are recorded in the green reading record along with the dates that reading has taken place. Please sign/initial these entries. Comments about the book and your child’s reading are welcomed. Three comments per week is ideal.

Reading records are checked on Mondays but reading books can be changed on any day.

Library day is on Tuesdays. Children may return finished books on this day and change them for a new one.

Children may borrow books from the classroom library and the Junior Library.

Please note that children are responsible for changing their own books.

 

Grammar & PunctuationPlease complete pages 80-81 for this week’s SPaG homework (Suffixes – ‘ly’). Grammar homework books must be brought into class on Tuesday 2nd June for marking and are returned on Wednesday. 
SpellingSpellings are tested in school every Wednesday.

 

Group 1 spellings are for words ending with the suffix ‘al’.

natural
occasional
actual
accidental
medical
national
capital
vocal
sensational
personal

                 

   

Group 2 spellings are for words containing the vowel digraph ‘ir’ or ‘ur’.

girl
bird
shirt
first
third
turn
hurt
church
burst
burn

 

 

MathsMyMaths homework is set every Wednesday to be completed by the following Wednesday – See Google Classroom for the link. No maths homework over the half term holidays.

White Rose Calculation Policy

Times TablesThese websites will help make learning times tables at home fun and maximise confidence.

 

Timestables.co.uk
Belmont times table challenge sheets
Times Tables Rock Stars
Topmarks
Primary Homework Help
Hit the Button

Creative Home LearningPlease see Google Classroom for more information.
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Y3 – Reading

This term we will be focusing on:

 

Reading for Pleasure books for class

As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.

Please find links to the book list that has a variety of books that we would love to have in class. Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don’t already have.

These books will be stamped to show they have been generously donated them and shared with all the class.

The books come from the Recommended Books for Year 3 List which can be found below.

Year 3 Booklist: 50 Recommended Reads

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Y3 – Teacher & Class Information

Teachers:

Willow – Mr McDonnell
Elm – Miss Rogers

Support Staff:

Mrs Miles, Mrs Smith, Mrs Atkinson, Mrs Sroka, Mrs Luiz, Ms Jay

 

Weekly Routines

MondayBring in Reading Record with at least three comments
TuesdayTimes tables test

Return completed SPAG (CGP) homework (marked books will be returned on Wednesday)

Return library book ready for changing

WednesdaySpelling test

French lessons

Ukulele lessons – bring in ukulele

Maths homework assigned (please see Google classroom)

New SPAG (CGP books) homework assigned

ThursdayElm and Willow Indoor PE – come to school in PE kit
FridayElm and Willow Outdoor PE – come to school in PE kit

Ukulele

Ukulele lessons with a teacher from Hounslow Music Service have begun.

Useful information for parents – Online ukulele tuner link 

Strings – from top – My dog has fleas ( this is a good way to hear if your ukulele is in tune).
G 4th string (top string)
C 3rd string
E 2nd string
A 1st string (ground)

Which way to turn the turners video

Here is the link to for the resources children have been using in lessons if you want some extra practice at home

Word Aware

 

Our topic this term is ‘Active Planet’

The below list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list with you so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home, it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language. We may add to this list during the topic as new words are introduced.

 

Veni Vidi Vici Word Aware Grid – Summer 2026

Y3 Summer Learning Tree 2025-26

 

Handwriting 

As you may be aware Belmont uses a cursive handwriting scheme for those children who can consistently form all non-cursive letters correctly.
Here is a link to the handwriting guidelines to enable you to support your children practising letter formation at home.

Belmont Handwriting Guidelines

PE Days

Children are to come to school in full PE kit.

Indoor PE will take place on Thursdays and outdoor PE on Fridays.

Water Bottles 

Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day.

 

 

 

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