Welcome to Year 3!

We would like to warmly welcome your child into Year 3. We are very excited to support them as they begin their journey through Key Stage 2 at Red Hill Primary School and look forward to a year of new challenges, friendships and exciting learning!

At Red Hill, we have four Year 3 classes:

3M Miss Morris

3K Ms King

3JM Mrs Millbank and Mrs Jervis

3P Mr Pillow

Miss Doran runs targeted interventions across the year group, whilst Miss Miles works with individual children and small groups. 

Our Class Pioneers 

Our Class Pioneers are inspirational people who have made a difference through their ideas, creativity, curiosity and determination. They remind us that being a pioneer means having the courage to think differently, follow your passions and make your own mark on the world.

3M- Mary Seacole
A brave nurse and pioneer who cared for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War and showed incredible courage, kindness and determination.

3K- Marcus Rashford

A talented footballer and campaigner who has worked to help children and families, using his voice to raise awareness of child food poverty and the importance of reading.

3JM- Sir Mo Farah
A world-famous athlete who became one of Britain’s greatest long-distance runners, winning Olympic and World Championship gold medals and inspiring people with his determination, hard work and resilience.

3P- Sophia Duleep Singh
A courageous princess and campaigner who fought for women’s right to vote and used her position to speak up for equality and justice.

Curriculum

At Red Hill, we follow the CUSP curriculum for reading, writing, spelling, history, geography, art, DT and science. For RE and PSHE we follow the Jigsaw curriculum. Computing lessons follow the National Centre for Computing Education. Click here to access our curriculum overview 

The Year 3 Curriculum Meeting Slides contain all the information shared at our parent and carer year group curriculum meetings at the start of the academic year. 

Our Learning

English

In English, we will be reading Greta and the Giants and The Pebble in my Pocket. 

We will be writing:

• Poetry on a theme - emotions
• First person narrative descriptions
• Non-chronological reports

Maths

Maths this half term will be learning to:

• Represent and partition numbers to 100 and 1,000.
• Flexible partitioning of numbers to 1,000.
• 100, 10s and 1s.
• Find 1, 10 or 100 more or less.
• Number line to 1,000.
• Compare and order numbers to 1,000.
• Count in 50s.
• Add and subtract numbers.

 

Supporting your child with their learning at home

Children will bring homework home every Friday in their homework books, and should hand them back into school every Wednesday.

Weekly homework includes:

• Maths – A short maths challenge linking to the week’s learning. Children should also log into TTRS (https://ttrockstars.com) and practise their multiplication recall.
• Spellings – Children will have 10 spellings sent home linking to a spelling pattern being taught in class. These will be tested in the spelling session on a Wednesday morning.
• Reading – Reading should be completed a minimum of 3x a week, but ideally for 10 minutes each evening. This can be completed with an adult, or children can choose to read independently. All reading sessions need to be recorded in their reading records, which should be brought into school daily.

Please click here for a recommended reading list for Year 3.

PE

3K – Tuesday + Friday

3M – Thursday + Friday

3P – Thursday + Friday 

3JM – Monday + Tuesday 

PE kits (as outlined in the uniform letter):

• Plain t-shirt in house colour (red, blue, green, yellow) P.E. t-shirt with the embroidered badge can still be worn
• Navy shorts/skort, tracksuit bottoms or leggings/cycling shorts
• Trainers or plimsolls
• Plain Navy sweatshirt or hoodie (iron on badge can be applied but not necessary.)

No football kits to worn to school. If children have a club after school, they need to bring this into school in a bag to change into before or after the club.