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

A few reminders for the start of the year:

• Times table challenges began this week. They will continue to take place on Tuesdays and will be returned on Wednesdays. Please practise with your child at home to support them in this.
• PE is on Thursdays and Fridays. Please ensure your child is wearing their PE kit on these days.
• Library day is Tuesday. On this day, your child can bring in their library book and change it. If they have not finished it they do not need to change it.
• Your child can select a book from the class reading corner any time to be taken home. When your child has finished it, they must return it to the classroom before taking a new one.
• Please ensure your child has their green reading record in their bag on Mondays with three written entries completed by an adult (preferably) or your child. Comments in the reading record can be about your child’s e-book (which we have not set yet – more on this to come), their class reading corner book, or their library book.
• Please ensure you adhere to the school uniform policy. You can find our policy here:

School Uniform Policy

• We will be going on a trip to the Natural History Museum on Monday 20th October to support our Active Planet topic. If you have your DBS and are  interested in volunteering, please get in touch with the school office to let them know.
• The Year 3 Google Classrooms have now been set up. Please remember to refer to these for Knowledge Organisers along with other useful things such as links to Maths homework activities.
• Please remember that most children will be issued their online reading book in a three week cycle as per Year 2.
• Please note that Smart Watches are not allowed to be worn by pupils at Belmont and refer to our school uniform policy as per the link above.
• Black History Month takes place in October.
• New log in sheets have been provided so please use the up to date copy. Most logins are the same as before but some log in passwords/username have to change each year so please note that you have a new Little Wandle eCollins login for reading books and a new Discovery Education QR code.
• Thank you to everyone that attended the Home School Partnership evening. A copy of the slides are available on Google Classroom for any parents or carers that weren’t able to attend.

This term, we will be focusing on:

and

Our end-of-the-day class reading book will be:

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

Teachers:

Willow -Mr McDonnell
Elm – Miss Rogers

Support Staff:

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

Weekly Routines

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 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

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.

Dates for the diary

02.10.25 National Poetry Day

20.10.25  – Trip to Natural History Museum

21.11.25 – INSET Day – No children in school