Year Three Notice Board

06.12.23

Notices

WELL DONE to everyone who has submitted their Autumn Creative Learning Project. We will begin looking at them all in Google Classroom this week. If there are any that still need to be submitted, please do ASAP or your child will not be able to share it with the class.

Unfortunately, the ukulele teacher is off sick again. Hounslow Music are trying to find us a replacement. It is unlikely this will happen before the Christmas holidays.

Thank you to all those parents who are helping their child to bring items into school at the right time. It is really important that your child has these items on the correct day. These things can not happen if your child does not have them in school.

MONDAY: Reading Records-to be signed by class teacher

TUESDAY: Ukuleles-to be tuned

WEDNESDAY: CPG HW books-to be marked and MyMaths completed

THURSDAY: Library Books- to be changed

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

Year 3 Team

Elm - Miss Rogers

Willow - Mrs Gill and Ms Pearce

Support staff - Mrs Bridges and Miss Johansson

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 

Online Safety

We have been having online safety lessons in Year 3 using the CEOP resource Jessie and Friends. Please see letter and help sheet resource below for further information. You may also like to play the online game with your child which is linked to our lessons to promote further discussions. 

Letter and Help sheet  to Parents

Game link

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. 

Reading Records and Books

• Please ensure that all books are recorded in the reading record along with the dates that reading has taken place. We encourage daily reading. 
• Please sign/initial these entries.
• Comments about the book and your child's reading are welcomed with at least 3 comments a week. These can be written by the adult or child ( at least one comment should be from an adult). 
• All reading records are checked on Mondays so please send into school even if a new book is not needed.
• Reading books can be changed as needed - on any day of the week.
• Children may record their own books in the reading record so we can see what else they are reading. 

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 Topic 

Our topic this term is Active Planet where we will be learning about volcanoes and earthquakes. 

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. 

Word Aware - Autumn Active Planet 

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. 

Elm Google Classroom Willow Goggle 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  

School Diary 

Letters  

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:           06.12.23

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 have 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