Y3 – Latest Class Notices

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

Calendar/Key Dates:

27.11.25 – Parents Evening

29.11.25 – Belmont Christmas Fair

4.12.25 – Trip to Pantomime (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith) – Please note that this is a change of date from the previous date on the noticeboard. A huge thank you to Belmont PTA for funding the whole cost of this for each child!

8.12.25 – Creative Home Learning due

17.12.25 – Carol Concert

18.12.25 – Class parties

17.12.25 – Christmas Jumper Day

19.12.25 – Last day of term – school finishes at 1.30pm

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Y3 – Learning this week

Learning in school this week:
EnglishSPaG – Sentence openers

Stories with Familiar Settings

MathsMultiplication & Division
Learning next week:
EnglishSPaG – Subordinating conjunctions

Stories with Familiar Settings

MathsMultiplication and Division

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 the pages listed in below in your CGP Grammar book. New pages will be set every Wednesday. These are due in school to be marked every Tuesday.

Pages 18-19 (Statements, questions, commands and exclamations).

SpellingHere are next week’s spellings. They are adverb words with the suffix ‘ly’.

These will be tested in school next Wednesday.

happily

angrily

lazily

easily

busily

greedily

messily

wearily

cheekily

clumsily

MathsMyMaths homework is set every Wednesday to be completed by the following Wednesday – See Google Classroom for the link.
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.

Y3 – Reading

This term, we will be focusing on:

The Pebble in My Pocket: A History of Our Earth by Hooper, Meredith, Coady, Chris - Amazon.ae and The Tunnel: 1: Amazon.co.uk: Anthony Browne, Walker Books: 9781406313291: Books

Our end-of-the-day class reading book will be:Escape from Pompeii : Balit, Christina: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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

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.

Word Aware Autumn 2025

Y3 Autumn 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.