St Aidan's CE Primary SchoolLadybirds 2026 - 2027
Miss Clarke
Welcome to Year 3
Live, Laugh, Love, Learn!
Class Teacher- Miss Clarke
Teaching Assistant- Miss Barrie
Welcome to Ladybirds! We are a class that strive to acheive the best of our potential through experiencing a rich and balanced curriculum that will excite, engage and create meaningful memories whilst learning. Together, we will support, encourage and motivate each other into becoming resiliant learners but also trustworthy, compassiomate young individuals.
Class Value - FORGIVENESS
Class Author - Laura Ellen Anderson
If you have any worries or questions about your child's leanring and development please contact me.
Important information
Homework
Spellings: Children will be given their spellings weekly. Spelling tests will take place on a Friday.
Reading Books - Reading is amazing and can open up whole new worlds. We continue to promote reading for pleasure! It's so important that your child reads every single day. In Year 3 it is expected that children read between 15-20 minutes a day and at least 3 times per week. Reading will be monitored on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
It is important that children are regulalry learning their times tables. I would greatly appreciate your support in helping the children through rapid recall and games. All primary school-aged children are expected to know their times tables up to 12 x 12 by heart. In fact, they are expected to have mastered their times tables by the end of Year 4, where children have a 'Multiplication Check' that is set out by the government.
https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/ - This link takes you to a website where your child can practice their times tables under similar guidelines to the offcial times table check.
P.E.
Ladybirds have PE in school on a Wednesday and Friday. Please ensure your child has their PE kit, including their coloured house t-shirt, in a named bag, which stays in school until the end each half term. No jewellery and earrings either removed or covered. PLEASE NAME EVERY ITEM OF CLOTHING.
Curriculum information
The curriculum map (file attached) outlines your child's learning across the year. In class, we will be reading novels each term which compliment our English Unit.
Please find below a copy of the word lists that children are expected to know by the end of Year 3/4.
Homework links
Please find below links to several more websites that children can use to help them whilst on their learning journey.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary-games
http://www.coolmath-games.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr - Dance Mat typing