Year Three Notice Board

Calendar/ Key dates  

Please send in a shoe box with your child on the 6th January 2025

for our science lesson 

19.12.24 - Class Christmas party  - Please bring in a snack to share with the class (Parent mail to follow)

20.12.24 - Last day of Term 1.30pm finish 

6.1.25 - First Day of spring term  - Please send in a show box with your child on the first day back 

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  

Please remember the children should have a healthy snack for morning playtime. 

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.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  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 who has 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 recommended Book list 

Thank you for sending lots of the titles from our  Year 3 reading for pleasure list. We really appreciate it. 

Love reading for 4 schools (Year 3)

Ukulele

All children will learn to play the ukulele in Year 3. Lessons with a teacher from Hounslow Music Service will begin in  September  (date to be confirmed). Please look out for a Parentmail soon for further details. 

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 4^th string (top string)
C 3^rd string
E 2^nd string
A 1^st 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

Autumn Term

Our topic this term is 'Active Planet'

 Autumn Curriculum Tree

 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. 

 Active Planet Word Aware Grid

Knowledge Organisers

Further information about the children's learning is available on our new Knowledge Organisers. This can be found in the Willow and Elm Google Classrooms. The link will be updated when the children have joined their new Google classroom. 

Willow Google Classroom       Elm Google Classroom

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

For the Autumn Term there will be one indoor and one outdoor session.

Elm and Willow PE days will be Monday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor).
Children are to come to school in full PE kit on these days as there will be no changing in school. 

Weekly Routines

Calendar/ Key dates  

November 14th 2024 - Trip - Natural History Museum 

Home Learning

For further information about Home Learning and ideas on how to support your child please click here.

When supporting your child with Maths calculation please look at the methods we use in Year 3 in the school Year 3 Calculation Policy.

This week:           

Grammar & Punctuation	No Homework - Please continue to practise your sentence structure using conjunctions and sophisticated vocabulary
Maths	Continue to practise your times tables at speed. No My maths homework - please feel free to practise any units on the website
Spellings	Over the holidays please continue to practise our Year 1/2/3/4 words and use them correctly in sentences

French 

French homework is optional but we recommend children use Year 3's French Google Classroom, Linguascope and Belmont's French Website to consolidate what has been taught in class.

French Google Classroom

French Google Classroom

All year 3 children will be invited to their French Google classroom where they can find French tasks and activities. 

Belmont French Website

Belmont French Website

Go to Belmont's French website to find out what we have been doing in class and for extra activities and videos. The French website is updated regularly. Children must login to their Belmont Google account to access the website.

Linguascope

Linguascope