Class 3 2025 - 2026
Mrs Owens
Welcome to Class Three
Mrs Owens is the teacher in Class Three and we are lucky to have Mrs Jackson and Mrs Parker working with us too.
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https://nrich.maths.org/advent-calendar-2025-primary
Autumn Term 2025
English
In English, our work will be based on the book 'Greek Myths'. We will be focussing on Odysseue and his adventures!
Reading - all children will be reading a book with their peers in class. We will be practising skills such as comprehension, inference, retrieval and developing vocabulary.
What can I do to support my child at home?
Reading - Read, read, read! Try to read with your child every day. In order to develop a love of reading, it is important that you read to your child as well as listening to them read.
Spelling - children will be working on spelling patterns at school. The common exception words for Year 1 and 2 and Years 3 and 4 are saved in the files section on this page. Please practise these at home.
Maths
This term we will be focusing on improving addition and subtraction using compact column methods. We will be looking at using the inverse operation to check our answers are correct.
Our practical maths lessons will be all about statistics. We will be looking at and creating tally charts, pictograms, bar charts and line graphs (Y4)
We will learn through playing games and lots of practical work.
In Class Three, we will focus much of our maths work on learning times tables.
Years Three and Four are the years when children need to become fluent on all multiplication facts to 12 x 12.
In Year Three, children need to know multiplication facts for the 2, 5,10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables by heart.
In Year Four, children need to know these, plus facts for the 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 times tables
What can I do to support my child at home?
To practise the Year 4 times table test go to https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
You can programme individual tables to be tested on or a random mix.
All children have a login for Times Table Rockstars which is a fun and engaging way to practise! We will often have battles against children in our class or even Class Four! Have a look at your individual heatmap which will highlight tables that you need to practise.
Oxford Owl have a great guide to learning times tables with hints, tips and games.
https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2014/05/13/10/30/08/349/PX_MathsContent_BK_TimesTablesInSchool_01_CH.pdf
Hit the button is another fun games to help learn tables.https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Other great maths websites:
Science
In science, we will be learning about electricity. We will learn about apliances that use battery and mains power and sometimes both to operate. We will be creating our own circuits and investigating conductors and insulators.
Wider Curriculum
In history lessons we will be learning about Ancient Greece and what life was like there over 2000 years ago.
We will have two PE sessions a week.
Thursday is our swimming session at Christleton High School.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR PE KIT IS IN SCHOOL EVERY DAY. Earrings should not be worn on PE days.
In RE sessions, we will be exploring the theme of incarnation at Christmas for Christians.
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