Y3 – Latest Class Notices

As part of our Healthy Eating DT unit, your child will have brought home a slip of paper with their ingredients written on it. Please can you send the ingredients in washed, but not prepared.

In addition, children will need a named, small plastic container to place their completed salad in and a fork so they can taste it. Please bring these items to school on Tuesday 17th March.

Please ensure you do not include any nuts, sesame or nut-based ingredients.

 

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

If your child has brought home a slip about to complete the Acceptable Use Form or the Gsuite for education permission form, please can you complete this as soon as possible. The forms can be found on the school website under the parents/carers tab. We must have permission for all children to enable them to access technology fully, at school. Without this permission your child may not be able to fully participate in some activities.

Calendar/Key Dates:

March 16th – 20th: Neurodiversity Celebration Week

During the week beginning 16th March, all pupils from Y1 to Y6 will engage in a variety of activities that will support their awareness and knowledge of neurodiversity terms and concepts at an age-appropriate level. Awareness and knowledge is the first step towards developing a whole Belmont community with positive attitudes towards neurodiversity and neurodivergence.

In KS2 (Y3, Y4, Y5 & Y6), the children will have an assembly at the start of the week where they will learn that neurodiversity is a way to describe how all of us are different in the way we think, feel and learn. These differences are not easily visible (they are inside us) and this can make it harder to recognise and understand these differences in others.

In class, the children will look at how differences can be supported in schools to make things fair for everyone to learn. This will help the children to understand the delicate balance between needs and wants. They will also share some story books in class and will complete a class quiz together with their teacher.

Friday 20th March: Red Nose Day – We invite the children to come to school that day wearing red. If you are able, please make a donation of £1, which will go to the Comic Relief charity. Donations will be taken via card payments at the gates or through MCAS, where there will be a payment item under products/store. All money raised will be donated to the charity and will help make a difference to a child’s life.

W/B 23rd March: STEM Week

Thursday 19th March – Parents Consultation Evening

Wednesday 25th March – Parents Consultation Evening

30th March – 10th April – Easter Holiday

Monday 13th April – School Back Summer Term begins

 

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

Y3 – Learning this week

Learning in school this week:
EnglishAuthors – Jeremy Strong
MathsMultiplication and Division
Learning next week:
EnglishLetter writing
Maths Multiplication 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 pages 56-57 (Apostrophe Practice). Grammar books must be brought into school on Tuesdays for marking. They are then returned to the children on the next day.
SpellingThe Group 1 spellings this week are for words that contain the prefix bi- or re-.

 

The Group 2 spellings are words with the sound /oa/ spelt with the vowel digraphs ‘oa’, ‘ow’, ‘oe’ (oa is very rare at the end of a word).

 

We will test these spellings in class next Wednesday.

 

Group 1   

bicycle
biplane
biceps
bilingual
biannual
reappear
redecorate
reapply
repay
rebuild

                                                                

Group 2

goal
coach
own
snow
grow
toe
goes
go
no
so

 

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

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.

Y3 – Reading

This term we will be focusing on:

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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.

Clink word aware spring 2026

Y3 Spring 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.