Year 3 | Alwoodley Primary School

COVID ARRANGEMENTS

Due to the current situation, please remember the following:

Year 3's start time is 8.50. Allow time for you child to enter the grounds safely and walk to the line for this time
Please remember that punctuality is very important
Both classes will line up in the Y3/4 playground
3WW will enter school via the Y3 door, 3CM via the Y4 door
Pickup is from the Y3/4 playground at 2.55.

PE KIT TO BE WORN TO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY

Please be patient, allow a little extra time and keep a safe distance from others.

Important things to remember:

This term's homework grid

This week's spellings/homework:

Year Three Spellings Week Beginning: 01/03/21

Please practice writing your groups spellings using the Look, Say, Write and Check method.

You could also try using the spellings to write some sentences.

Spellings link in to our lessons this week where we are investigating the prefixes: super- and auto-

This half term’s statutory spellings are: perhaps, address, fruit, guide, forward, material, guard, recent

Tomatoes Spellings

Autobiography

Superficial

Autograph

Superior

supernatural

supervise

Bananas Spellings

Superb

Superman

Automatic

superstar

The Year 3 team:

Mrs S Wray Ms F Waller Miss C McLaughlan

Mr D Currie Mrs M Elsom

Mrs C Toothill Mr S Manning

To improve our key reading skills, we use the reading VIPERS prompts.

Our significant author.

This year, Year 3 will be looking at the life and work of Roald Dahl.

We are currently reading

Links to Spelling Shed and Times Tables Rockstars:

Class Novels We want to the children to love reading and to experience a range of novels. Each half term we read a novel to our class. You could choose to read the same novel at home to promote an open discussion about the content and prepare your child for discussions in class. If they have particularly enjoyed a book you can use the link to search for recommendations based on similar themes or authors.