CPF Newsletter - 03.10.25

YEAR 3

What a fantastic and busy few weeks it's been in Year 3! Our pupils have been diving deep into new topics across the curriculum and showing brilliant focus and enthusiasm.

🧠 Core Subject Highlights

In Maths, we've been tackling the challenge of column addition. The children have worked incredibly hard to master carrying and lining up the digits correctly. It’s a crucial skill, and we are so proud of how quickly they've grasped it! Keep practising those number facts at home using Century to help with their speed.

In Writing, we’ve unleashed our imaginations by crafting detailed setting descriptions. The quality of vocabulary has been superb, with pupils using powerful adjectives to create expanded noun phrases and descriptions of the senses to transport the reader to a cave full of wonder and mystery. They’ve really focused on "showing, not telling" the reader about the setting.

Our Science lessons have been truly bone-chilling (in a good way!). We have investigated the human skeleton, learning all about the functions of bones—like protection, movement, and support. Ask your child to name a few bones they've learned about; you might be surprised by their knowledge of the femur or rib cage!

🌳 Forest School Fun!

A huge thank you to Curie Class and Darwin Class for their incredible enthusiasm during their final Forest School sessions. They’ve spent the last few weeks exploring the natural environment with boundless energy.

And a warm welcome to Anning Class and Newton Class, who have now started their first set of sessions! Please ensure they come to school with appropriate outdoor clothing and footwear on their Forest School days so they can get the most out of this wonderful experience.

As always, thank you for your continued support with homework and reading at home.

Upcoming learning

Maths - Column addition and subtraction with renaming

Writing - Diary entry (Text Stone Age Boy)

History - Would you prefer to have lived in the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age?

Science - Movement and nutrition

Home Learning

Reading - 5 times a week

Century - Your child can access Century on their Chromebooks. This is a fantastic piece of software that has maths, SPAG, Reading, and science activities that the children can access to support them with their learning. They have accessed this already in class and know how to log in. On the login page, log in with Google. (Please see the image, and use the link below.) Please ask them to show you how it works.

Link to Century

Times table rock stars (TTRS) - This is a program that allows the children to practice their times tables in a fun way. Each week, there will be a tournament between the four Year 3 classes. The children's usernames and logins are in their reading records.

Link to TTRS

Spellings - Each week spellings for the following week will be added to Google Classroom.

Reading records - All reading records will be collected on Friday by the class teacher. Children should have them in their bags every day.

Important dates

Trips

Natural history museum - Curie and Newton on 25th November and Anning and Darwin on 26th November 2025

More information will follow closer to the time.

British Museum - Spring term TBA

Globe Theatre - Summer term TBA

Sleep over - TBA

Assemblies

Curie - Friday 14th November 2025

Darwin - 13th February 2026

Newton - 24th April 2026

Anning - 15th May 2026

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