Spellings
Revisiting homophones
Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.
Class Assembly Script
Please continue practising lines over half term.
Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 21st October
Spellings
This week we have been revisiting a few spellings we have found tricking in our Paddngton unit of work
1. flood
2. said
3. family
4.made
5.blue
6.station
7.does
8.goes
9.stairs
10. doesn’t
Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.
Reading
Please continue reading daily at home. Our reading target boards is overflowing with children who have achieved their reading targets this half term…Well Done!
Our new class novel is The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. Enid Blyton is also our Author of the month for October. I have found a free link to Enid Blyton’s Bedtime stories online. It would be lovely if you could share a story with your child at home. There are many short stories that are ideal for sharing together.
Class Assembly Script
The children have blown me away this week with their confidence reading their assembly lines - thank you for practising at home. On Tuesday they practises sing Coldplay’s Someone Special, they sound fantastic. Please keep practising at home. Our class assembly is on 11th November.
Autumn 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 14th October
Spellings
This week we have been focusing on the prefix ‘re’:
1. reread
2. rewrite
3. remind
4.revisit
5.refresh
6.remove
7.review
8.replace
9.repeat
10. rearrange
Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.
Reading
This week the children have written a book review for our class novel Paddington.
When they’re reading at home this week, you could ask book review style questions like; “Who are the characters in this book?” “What is the plot of the story?” “Would you recommend this book to a friend?” “How many stars would you give this book out of 5?”
Class Assembly Script
The children have been given copies of the script for our class assembly with their lines highlighted, please encourage your child to practise their lines at home. They also have the lyrics of ‘Someone Special’ by Coldplay as we will sing this as a class. Our class assembly is on 11th November.
Autumn 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- To be handed in Tuesday 7th October
Spellings
This week we have been focusing on adding ‘ing’, ‘ed’ and ‘er’ to root words.
1. gardener
2. opener
3. happened
4.sharpener
5.whispering
6.covered
7.listening
8.shivered
9.followed
10. publisher
Maths - Please complete the questions in your homework book.
Reading
The children are making great progress towards their reading targets, please continue reading at home. Please remember to send your child’s reading book back into school daily - a few children have been without their books this week.
Autumn 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 24th September
Spellings
This week we have been focusing on the suffix ‘ly’.
1. gently
2. greatly
3. merrily
4.lazily
5.actually
6.importantly
7.wrinkly
8.sleepily
9.easily
10. horribly
Reading
The children are making great progress towards their reading targets, please continue reading at home. Please remember to send your child’s reading book back into school daily - a few children have been without their books this week.
Autumn 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 17th September
Spellings
This weeks spelling are irregular past tense verbs. In addition to the look, cover, write and check activity, the children will need to fill in the table changing present tense verbs to past tense verbs. It can help to say the word in a sentence out loud in the present tense, then in the past eg. Today I will sing. > Yesterday I sang.
1. broke
2. found
3. told
4.held
5.heard
6.thought
7.bit
8.blew
9.came
10. ate
Reading
Please continue reading at home each evening. I have reminded the children that taking their book home each day is their responsibility, so hopefully they will be coming home regularly.
The children have started making their way up the reading target wall and some children have already claimed a prize out of the prize box for achieving five 100% scores in their reading quizzes.
Autumn 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 10th September
Spellings
This weeks spelling are homophones, words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings. In addition to the look, cover, write and check activity, the children will need to fill in missing words in sentences with the correct homophone.
1. great
2. grate
3. steak
4.stake
5.break
6.brake
7.poor
8.pour
9.our
10. hour
Reading
The children’s reading targets have been reset ready for this half terms reading. Please continue reading at home daily.
Autumn 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 21st May
Spellings
This weeks focus is the ‘ture’ sound , spellings are:
nature
future
picture
feature
pasture
scripture
adventure
agriculture
furniture
temperature
Reading
We have done amazing with our reading this half term, despite it being a short half term, most children have reached their reading targets - Well done!
Purple Mash - French - modes of transport quiz. Science - Friction, put the correct words in the text activity.
Summer 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 30th April
Spellings
This weeks focus is more homophones, spellings are:
medal
meddle
ball
bawl
peace
piece
sauce
source
who’s
whose
Reading
The children are already making their way up the target board. Please continue dialy reading at home.
Purple Mash - 2do task - matching related number facts HTU.
Summer 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 23rd April
Spellings
This weeks spelling are:
often
enough
question
quarter
purpose
popular
occasion
perhaps
potatoes
promise
Reading
The children’s reading targets have been reset ready for this half terms reading. Please continue reading at home daily.
Purple Mash - How do muscles work? Us ethe clipart and writing prompts to write about how muscles in our body work.
Summer 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 26th March
Spellings
This weeks focus is the suffix ‘ous’,
joyous
dangerous
poisonous
nervous
courageous
continuous
adventurous
mountainous
furious
outrageous
Reading
Please continue reading at home each night - only a couple of weeks to reach targets.
Purple Mash - Skeletons task and food task linked to our science work.
Spring 2 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 19th March
Spellings
This weeks focus is irregular plurals
tooth
teeth
woman
women
child
children
goose
geese
person
people
Reading
Please continue reading at home each night, there’s just over a week for children to reach their reading targets. Children are already making their way up our target board.
Purple Mash - Roman Glossary - Can you make a glossary of new words from our Roman work? Remember to put them in alphabetical order. Can you put these words in alphabetical order? - Alphabetical order task
Spring 2 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 12th March
Spellings
This weeks focus is homophones…
fair
fare
fayre
wait
weight
rein
rain
reign
ate
eight
Reading
Please continue reading at home each night, there’s just over a week for children to reach their reading targets. Children are already making their way up our target board.
Purple Mash - Equivalent lengths activity and History - Roman reading comprehension
Spring 2 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 5th March
Spellings
This weeks focus is contactions…
couldn’t
shouldn’t
wouldn’t
doesn’t
wasn’t
they’re
you’re
hadn’t
won’t
isn’t
Reading
Please continue reading at home each night, there’s just over a week for children to reach their reading targets. Children are already making their way up our target board.
Purple Mash - Capacity quiz and complete the sentences about length, height and weight.
Spring 2 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 25th February
Spellings
This weeks focus is ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
double
country
young
touch
trouble
couple
encourage
cousin
southern
should
Lenten Boxes
Each year the children make a Lenten box. During Lent we collect money in the box ready to give to charity. We encourage the children to do special things for donations to their box. Because the box is a gift to another child, we ask the children to be creative and thoughtful - linking their decoration to Lent/Easter/Spring. We will be swapping boxes next Wednesday, please make sure they are brought to school by then. Great time to upcycle a container!!! Leave or create a slit for money!
Reading
Reading targets have been reset! GO!
Please continue reading at home each night, there’s just over a week for children to reach their reading targets.
Purple Mash - Introducing weight and mass, measuring in cm, tallest and shortest. These 2dos are to recap last half terms learning and introduce our new maths topic - Mass and capacity.
TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables - all levels are now open for the children to work on .
Spring 2 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 12th February
Spellings
This weeks focus is ‘ey’ sound spelt eigh, ey and ei
weigh
sleigh
neigh
neighbour
eight
obey
survey
prey
vein
reign
Reading
Please continue reading at home each night, there’s just over a week for children to reach their reading targets.
Well done to Xander, Blythe, Logan, Heidi, Eliza, Barnaby, Bonnie, Dexter, Jacob, Freddie, Michael, Sasha, Marla, Jude Cu, Scarlet and Luca who have reached their targets.
Purple Mash - adding and subtracting multiples of 10 from 3 digit numbers - linked to our maths classwork.
TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables - all levels are now open for the children to work on .
Spring 1 Optional homework
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 22nd January
Spellings
This weeks focus is irregular past tense verbs
bent
drank
brought
drove
forgot
heard
thought
told
found
held
Reading
Well done to Bonnie and Barnaby who have already reached their reading targets this half term. Please continue reading at home daily.
Purple Mash - place value of three digit numbers linked to our maths learnng this week. Can you write a simile poem to describe an alien?
TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables - all levels are now open for the children to work on .
Spring 1 Optional homework - My apologies the link wasn’t working last week - I’ve rectified this and the link should now work. Any problems please let me know. These tasks link to our learning in class.
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 15th January
Spellings
This weeks focus is homophones - words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. The children need to use the correct meaning in the correct context.
grown
groan
berry
bury
male
mail
which
witch
aloud
allowed
Reading
Well done Year 3, some of you are already making your way towards your targets. Please continue reading at home daily and asking your child questions about what they have read.
Purple Mash - Measuring quiz linked to our learning in maths this week.
TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables - all levels are now open for the children to work on .
Spring 1 Optional homework - My apologies the link wasn’t working last week - I’ve rectified this and the link should now work. Any problems please let me know. These tasks link to our learning in class.
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 8th January
Spellings
This weeks focus is common exception words - here’s the next set of these tricky words that we just need to learn…no patterns or special rules.
promise
quarter
describe
answer
arrive
notice
decide
library
address
believe
Reading
Reading targets have been reset, please listen to your child read at home for 15 minutes each night - it really does make a huge difference.
Purple Mash - Optional activities linked to our learning will be added to purple mash each week.
TT Rock Stars and Numbots - please encourage your child to log on to and practise number skills and times tables.
Spring 1 Optional homework - below is the link for this half term’s optional homework. These task link to our learning in class.
Year 3 Homework- Wednesday 11th Decmber
Spellings
This weeks focus is apostrophes to show contractions.
I’ve
won’t
we’ve
she’ll
haven’t
wouldn’t
shouldn’t
can’t
aren’t
hadn’t
Key Stage 2 Carol concert
It’s less than a week until our Christmas Concert, we’ve been to Church this week to rehearse and the children sound amazing. Any extra practise this week would be wonderful. Below is a link to the words of the songs we are practising for our carol concert and a videos of the songs.
Reading
Please try to read for 10-15 minutes at home each day - the children have made a great start and are already moving up our target board.
Autumn Term Optional Homework