Year 3
Welcome to the class page for Year 3!
Meet the 2025-2026 team...
Teachers
Miss Rockett (3R)
Miss Gill (3G)
Miss Hardwick (3H)
Lower School Support Staff
Miss Bennett
Mrs Reynolds 1:1
Mrs Kaur 1:1
Mrs Jones 1:1
Miss Hinton (PE and PPA Cover) Ms Powell (PPA Cover)
Contact Us
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to send an email to your class teacher stating your child's name and class (3R, 3G or 3H) as the subject to
y3@abbey.sandwell.sch.uk
Collins EbooksTo access your child’s Big Cat ebooks, please click on the link below. You will find the login details for your child at the back of their reading diaries.
Children should read at least three times a week. This can be school or home reading books. Please record in reading diaries so staff can monitor. Reading books will be changed once a week. Please ensure your child has their reading books each week on the days for each group of children.
“Groovy Greeks”
This is a History topic about Ancient Greece and will link to writing, Art & Design, Geography and D&T. The children will learn about the Ancient Greeks and their everyday lives and understand the impact of the Ancient Greeks on our lives today. To launch the topic, we will use ‘Now Press Play which is an interactive and immersive experience designed to engage and inspire the children. They will be finding out about the Geography of Greece and how Modern Greece differs from Ancient Greece. Using Ancient Greek artefacts and art work the children will learn about this civilisation. Though creative projects they will make Greek pots, mosaics as well as traditional Greek food. The children will celebrate their learning with a Greek Day, where the children showcase their Greek vases, “Groovy Greek Grub” and put on a Greek singing performance.
Bucket list and Life skills opportunities include designing and creating their vases as well as putting together a Greek meal. Soft skills will continue with decision making, creative thinking and teamwork.
Science
In Science, the children will be exploring forces; push, pull or twist and determine which is needed to make objects move. We will also be focusing on magnetism, and investigating materials and their properties.
In Spring 2, we will be studying different rocks, and investigating their properties by sorting and classifying them. The children will be testing the permeability and hardness of rocks and carry out some soil investigations.
Please use your Spelling Frame log in details to access the spelling list each week. Children can learn their weekly spellings by accessing the games and activities. Spellings will go live the week of the spellings being tested and children will complete a test at the end of the week every Friday.
Spellings will be tested in school every Friday.
Practise the spellings in sentences as this will help put them into context. This is also an opportunity to practice letter formation.
PE for Year 3
In Spring 1, we will be focusing on ‘Invasion games’, specifically handball. They will use a combination of different movements to play competitive games and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
In Spring 2, the children will be developing their hand eye co-ordination, agility, throwing and catching skills using a competitive element in Dodgeball. We will be focussing on agility, to change direction in order to exploit space and avoid the ball, and co-ordination to throw accurately towards a target.
PE lessons this term are on Monday for 3R (am) & 3H (pm) and Tuesday for 3G (PM) . Could you please ensure that children have appropriate kit in school, including a jumper and trainers for outdoor use as it starts to get colder. Please ensure that hair is tied back in a bobble and earrings are removed the night before. Classes will be learning a range of invasion games.
Online Resources.
You will find work for the whole curriculum on Purple Mash. Children also have logins for Education City and Times Table Rock Stars, where they can continue to study from home.
Should you need additional copies of your child's login details, or have any further questions about the homework, please feel free to speak to your child's class teacher before or after school. Many thanks for your continued support.
Please keep practising your times tables. Just log on to Education City, TTRS or even Purple Mash.
They are extremely important and will help you during your Maths lessons.
You should know your 2, 5, 10, 4, 8 and 3's by the end of Year 3!
Good luck!
Parent Guide to the National Curriculum
Below are the websites that the children will be using for homework and independent learning at home. If you have any questions or need additional details, please ask your child's class teacher.
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Purple Mash
Activities for the whole curriculum!
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Education City
Fun activities for English and other areas of the curriculum!