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 1:1
Mrs Reynolds 1:1
Mrs Kaur 1:1
Miss Hinton (PE and PPA Cover) Ms Hill (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.
Industrial Revolution
Focusing on local history, we will be looking at the Black Country’s influence in the Industrial Revolution. We will be concentrating on learning about canals, bridges and the development of transportation over the centuries. James Brindley and Thomas Telford’s inventions will be used to look at how history shaped the landscape both in Birmingham and wider UK. This will help children develop a growing understanding of how a significant period in British history changed the world they now live in.
Bucket list and Life skills opportunities include designing and creating their bridges for DT. This will be created through the workshops.
Science
The children are introduced to the different parts of a plant focussing on the role and function of the leaf, stem, root and the flower through investigations and observing changes over time. The children will investigate how water is transported through a plant. They will look at how flowers enable a plant to reproduce, and how seeds are dispersed. Building on from previous knowledge, children will explore and sort a range of leaves. They will also be looking at how plants, have adapted to their environment. They will investigate the important role played by bees in plant reproduction.
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 Summer 1, we will be concentrating on striking and fielding games in particular Rounders. The children will be playing competitive games and applying basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
During Summer 2, the children will be focusing on Athletics. They will be using running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination. They will be developing flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance through Athletics.
PE lessons this term are on Monday for 3H (am) ,Tuesday for 3G (PM) and Thursday 3H (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!
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!