**If you haven’t already done so, please send a strong bag in with your child tomorrow to carry their school books home in. Thank you!

As we are rapidly approaching the end of the academic year, please could you make sure to send in any school ukuleles, library books and reading for pleasure books back into school as soon as possible. Thank you.

Maths Homework – Please note that we are not setting any Maths homework on MyMaths this week. In class we have been focusing on time. The children have been learning about minutes past and to the hour. It would really beneficial if you could spend some time with your child practicing this e.g. where would the hands be at 7 minutes past 3, 18 minutes to 12 etc.

There will be no spelling or CGP grammar homework for next week.

Calendar/Key Dates:

Wednesday 8th July – Meet new teacher in Year 4 classrooms

Friday 17th July – Last day of term – 1:30pm finish

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

Please note, the following content will be taught in Year 3 this term. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher:

This term we will be focusing on:

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.

Veni Vidi Vici Word Aware Grid – Summer 2026

Y3 Summer 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.