Year Three Notice Board

Notices

Year 3 had a super time at the Verulamium museum this week. Thank you to our parent helpers for all your help and support with the trip.

Many children are without a glue stick! Please ask your child if they currently have their own glue stick and give them one if you are able as we will need them for our Mosaic lessons in art. 

Please take a look at the new key /calendar dates added to this page ( see further down the page).

RSE Lessons 

Please find a brief outline of the next RSE lesson below. 

Book List

As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.

Please find links to two book lists that have a variety of we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add it to the list of books purchased.  Please check this list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don't already have.

Year 3 recommended Book list 

Love reading 4 schools (Year 3)

List of books donated so far 

Home School partnership Video

20.09.21 - Please find below the link to the slides for the Year 3 Home School Partnership video. The video can be found on the Stream page in Google Classroom using your child's login details.

Year 3 Home School Partnership slides

Welcome to Year 3! 

Elm - Mrs Clifton (Mr Guy - Thursday)
Willow - Mr McDonnell
Mrs Bridges

Login Sheets 

All children have brought home with their computer login sheets. Please check your child's bag and keep this in a safe place. 

Water Bottles 

Please ensure that your child brings a water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day. 

Reading Records and Books

• Please ensure that all books are recorded in the reading record along with the dates that reading has taken place. We encourage daily reading. 
• Please sign/initial these entries.
• Comments about the book and your child's reading are welcomed with at least 3 comments a week. 
• All reading records are checked on Mondays so please send into school even if a new book is not needed.
• Reading books can be changed as needed - on any day of the week.
• Children may record their own books in the reading record so we can see what else they are reading. 

Ukulele

All children will learn to play the ukulele in Year 3. Lessons with a teacher from Hounslow Music Service will begin on Wednesday 22nd September. Please see the Parentmail sent on 6/9/21 for details if you wish to purchase a ukulele and ensure your child brings it to school on the 22nd.

Useful information for parents - Online ukulele tuner link 

Strings – from top – My dog has fleas ( this is a good way to hear if your ukulele is in tune). 
G 4^th string (top string)
C 3^rd string
E 2^nd string
A 1^st string (ground)

Which way to turn the turners video

Here is the link to for the resources children have been using in lessons if you want some extra practice at home.

Summer Topic 

Our topic this term is Veni Vidi Vici where we will be learning about the Romans.

The below list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list with you so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home, it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language. We may add to this list during the topic as new words are introduced. 

Word Aware - Veni Vidi Vici 

Knowledge Organisers

Further information about the learning in geography and history is available on our new Knowledge Organisers. This can be found in the Willow and Elm Google Classrooms.

Elm Google Classroom Willow Goggle Classroom 

Handwriting 

As you may be aware, last year Belmont introduced a new cursive handwriting scheme for those children who can consistently form all non-cursive letters correctly.
Here is a link to the handwriting guidelines to enable you to support your children practising letter formation at home. 

Belmont Handwriting Guidelines

PE

Elm PE days will be Monday (outdoor) and Friday (indoor).
Willow PE days will be Monday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor). 
Children are to come to school in full PE kit on these days as there will be no changing in school. 

Weekly Routines

Calendar/ Key dates  

School Diary 

Thursday 26th May - Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations and last day of this half term.

Friday 27th May - Inset Day (no children in school) 

Letters  

Home Learning

For further information about Home Learning and ideas on how to support your child please click here.

When supporting your child with Maths calculation please look at the methods we use in Year 3 in the school Year 3 Calculation Policy.

This week:                    

Year 3 Recommended Reading List

Learning Tree - Summer

French 

French homework is optional but we recommend children use Year 3's French Google Classroom, Linguascope and Belmont's French Website to consolidate what has been taught in class.

French Google Classroom

All year 3 children should have been invited to their French Google classroom where they can find French tasks and activities. 

Belmont's French Website

Go to Belmont's French website - where Year 3 have their own page - to find out what we have been doing in class and for extra activities and videos. The French website is updated regularly. Children must be logged in to their Google account to access the website.

Linguascope