Welcome to Year 3

It's so lovely to have you all back in school and ready to learn again! 

Marvellous Me 

If you no longer have the app on your phone or tablet, please reinstall it and ask for a joining code. This is the only way we can contact you with messages, news and updates. Please email or get in touch with the office to request a code and one will be sent home with your child.  Thank you for your continued support. 

The Year 3 Team

Mrs Ballinger - Class Teacher 3BC - (email:julie.ballinger@racemeadow.org )

Mrs Cross - Class Teacher 3BC - (email: jacqui.cross@racemeadow.org)

Miss Morning - Class Teacher 3M - (email: lucy.morning@racemeadow.org)

Mrs Smith and Mrs Mellors - Year 3 Learning Support Assistants

Please use school emails to contact us about any non-urgent issues.

Anything more urgent can be passed to us via the main school office.

Key information

• Diaries and reading books should be in school every day.
• Water bottles will be sent home everyday to be washed and refilled. 
• Children can bring in their own pencil cases which should be left in school.
• Please provide a healthy snack (fruit, cereal bar, cheese etc)  or change for the tuck shop. 
• PE is on Wednesday when children should come to school in their PE kit - white t-shirt, black shorts or joggers, school jumper, black pumps or black trainers. 

Homework will be given out on a Friday and should be handed in by the following Wednesday. Homework consists of Arithmetic, Grammar and a short reading activity. Homework should be completed in pencil or a black or blue pen. In addition to this, children are expected to have read at home 3 times each week and have this signed by an adult in their diary.

Weekly spellings are stuck in the spellings section at the front of your child's diary, new spellings are given out on a Friday and will be tested on the following Friday. 

Autumn 1 Mini-Mission: Charlie Small Gorilla City

One morning, Year 3 arrived at school to find that there were vines and creepers in the classroom! Mrs Cross found a backpack that didn't belong to anyone with some strange things inside it. There was an enormous gorilla's face on the wall and a monkey! Then a letter arrived from someone called Charlie's mum asking for help to find her lost son, Charlie! After that, a cut up picture arrived with a note asking which ocean someone had sailed over! Things were getting curious...the map was a map of the world which we used to find out where Charlie could have gone. Wherever could he be? Mrs Collinson gave us a book to read all about Charlie Small and we discovered that he had been struck by lightning while sailing his raft down the stream at the bottom of his garden. We can't wait to find out more! 

We are Geographers!

As Geographers, we have learnt the location of the 7 continents , the 5 oceans of the world and located climate zones and the biomes of the world using atlases. To locate Charlie Small we have learned the points of the compass and looked closely at the rainforest biome, its layers and its importance. We have also learnt about deforestation and the impacts on the physical environment.