Welcome to our Year 3 Pupil Page!
Hello, welcome to the year three page of our website. Year three is a fantastic year at Highwoods. It’s our first year in KS2 and there are some changes to the school day. We are lucky enough to do forest school this year and we do some amazing learning. Our teachers are Miss Chapman, Mrs Usher and Mrs Costanzo. We also have Mrs Emm and Mrs Hooker to help us in our learning, as well as lots of other adults in school. Check back regularly to see what we get up to as the year goes by…
HOME LEARNING
Hello,
Your daily learning is on our Google classroom. Instructions for how to set this up were pinged to parents in October.
You can find a copy of this letter here.
If you need us for anything, if you just want to say hello or let us know what you are up to please email us on Year3@highwoodsprimary.com
We’d love some pictures of what you are up to at home to put onto our webpage too – you can upload them to your classroom, email them to us or send them through twitter.
You can find some of the work you have sent us on the home learning examples tab
Online Daily Lessons
BBC Bitesize have launched their home learning website, which is full of interesting lessons and activities for each year group. You can access it here.
Oak National Academy are also providing daily video lessons and learning resources in their online classroom. You can access it here.
White Rose Maths upload a daily video lesson and worksheet. You can access this here.
You could also look at our Literacy page and Curriculum pages for other ideas and activities. Don’t forget the Thrive activities you can find here.
Homework
Maths and Spelling homework is set every Wednesday and should be completed by the following Wednesday.
We will sometimes set grammar homework too.
All of our homework is online. You will need to use the following websites to complete your homework:
Timestable Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com
This is the same account as the children were using during year two. It’s easiest to use via the app.
Spelling Frame: https://spellingframe.co.uk
The children’s spelling homework is now on this site. There is a selection of words every week selected specifically for them.
They can select their spellings by logging onto the site, then choosing to practice or test. They must complete one test per week as their homework but can do more if they’d like or play the games.
SPAG.com: https://www.spag.com/
This will not start until later in the year but is the grammar site and has some fun quizzes for the children, these quizzes will be set for what is being learned in class.
Useful Information
Reading
Parents, thank you for your continued support with reading at home. Remember, 3 adult signed entries in the children’s reading records entitle your child to being a ‘Star Reader’ for the week.
Reading regularly with your child is so important, as it not only improves your child’s reading fluency but it builds their vocabulary, aids their creativity when writing, improves their spelling and develops their general knowledge. Most of all, it is an enjoyable way to spend quality time with your child at the end of a busy day.
PE Days
In accordance with the new rules children must attend school wearing their kit on PE days. Please send your child in weather appropriate clothing.
Outside PE is on a Wednesday afternoon – Children will need a jumper, t-shirt, jogging bottoms, socks and trainers.
Please remember that hair must be tied back and earrings removed for PE.
Forest Schools
In Year 3, we have an amazing opportunity to take part in Forest Schools once a week. This is a great chance to learn new skills and interact with each other outside of the classroom.
Each group will spend a block of weeks attending Forest Schools, before changing to allow other children to attend.
Our Forest School afternoon will be Monday for those children who are selected.
Trips During Year Three
We love enriching our curriculum through trips over the course of the year. There will be no trips during Autumn term due to the current situation. We hope we may be able to complete trips later in the school year.
The approximate details of these are below for your information, we will obviously send out more information as the year progresses:
Spring 2021 – Colchester Castle – Approximate cost £11.00
Summer 2021 – London Tour and Science Museum – Approximate cost £17
Summer 2021 – Walton on the Naze -Approximate cost £8.00
We will also go on local trips and visits to the local area (such as Highwoods or Tesco) as the year progresses.
HOME LEARNING
Hello,
If you need us for anything, if you just want to say hello or let us know what you are up to please email us on Year3@highwoodsprimary.com
We’d love some pictures of what you are up to at home to put onto our webpage too – you can email them to us or send them through twitter.
You can find some of the work you have sent us on the home learning examples tab – we had to move it here because there is so much of it!
Weekly Home Learning
Home Learning Week Beginning 13.07.20
Home Learning Week Beginning 06.07.20
Home Learning Week Beginning 29.06.20
Home Learning Week Beginning 22.06.20
Home Learning Week Beginning 15.06.20
Home Learning Week Beginning 08.06.20
Home Learning Week Beginning 01.06.20
Home Learning Week 7 (18/05/20)
- Punctuation and Grammar activities:
- SPAG 1
- SPAG 2
- Subtraction activities:
- Numberline subtraction
- Level 1
- Level 2
- Level 3
Home Learning Week 6 (11/05/20)
Home Learning Week 5 (04/05/20)
- Design a medal
- VE day reading
- Email us for a copy of recipe book or some colouring sheets, as these are too big to upload to the website.
Home Learning Week 4 (27/04/20)
* Column addition questions for week 4
Home Learning Week 3 (20/04/20)
Home Learning Week 2 (30/03/20)
Home Learning Week 1 (21/03/20)
- 3VC code for the Code.org website is RMYRDS.
- Our class code is 3HC – WRFDGZ
Online Daily Lessons
BBC Bitesize have launched their home learning website, which is full of interesting lessons and activities for each year group. You can access it here.
Oak National Academy are also providing daily video lessons and learning resources in their online classroom. You can access it here.
White Rose Maths upload a daily video lesson and worksheet. You can access this here.
You could also look at our Literacy page and Curriculum pages for other ideas and activities. Don’t forget the Thrive activities you can find here.
2020 Spring Term
We learn about the Romans during Spring term in year three, the knowledge organiser below shows some of what we learn:

Our first theme for Autumn is Best of British. Please see the knowledge organiser below and the curriculum map for further information.
