Welcome to the Year 3 Notice Board

Urgent request.

We need some cardboard or cardboard boxes for our Art lesson on Tuesday 15th September. The card needs to be quite thin so that it can be cut easily by the children using scissors. If you have any boxes that you could send in, we would be very grateful. Cereal boxes or similar are ideal as they are easy to cut.

Thank you

Year 3 team 

 

Year 3 2026-27

We will discuss more detail about the curriculum at the Home School Partnership Evening on Wednesday 24^th September.

Our PE lessons now take place on Tuesday and Thursdays. On these days, children should come to school wearing their PE kit and remain in it for the duration of the day.

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.

Playtime Snacks – If your child is bringing a snack in for playtime, please ensure that it is a small/well portioned, healthy snack that can be eaten within a short space of time. No sweets, biscuits or food containing nuts or traces of nuts should be brought in.

Thank you

 

 

Calendar/Key Dates:

Home School Partnership evening – Thursday 24th September

 

 

Learning in school this week:
English	Recount writing and A Pebble in my Pocket
Maths	Place Value
Learning next week:
English	A Pebble in my Pocket
Maths	Place Value

Books we are reading this term include:

 

Reading for Pleasure

In addition to our reading expectations for Year 3, we also encourage reading for pleasure. 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 you have donated a book, please tick on the spreadsheet for your child’s class 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 Booklist: 50 Recommended Reads

Please use the spreadsheets below to tick off any books that you buy for the class.

Elm Class Books

Willow Class Books

 

 

Teachers:

Willow – Mr McDonnell
Elm – Miss Lee and Ms Pearce

Support Staff:

Mrs Sroka, Ms Balsam and Mrs Donnelly

 

Weekly Routines

Monday	Bring in Reading Record with at least three comments
Tuesday	Elm and Willow Indoor PE – come to school in PE kit Times tables test Return completed SPAG (CGP) homework (marked books will be returned on Wednesday) Return library book ready for changing (Elm class)
Wednesday	Spelling test French lessons Ukulele lessons – bring in ukulele Maths homework assigned (please see Google classroom) New SPAG (CGP books) homework assigned Return library book ready for changing (Willow class)
Thursday	Elm and Willow Outdoor PE – come to school in PE kit
Friday

Ukulele

Ukulele lessons with a teacher from Hounslow Music Service will begin soon.

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 – Active Planet

Y3 Autumn Learning Tree 2026-27

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.