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 Year 3 Summer Knowledge Organisers 

Weekly update: 13.06.25

English:

In English, Children begin learning through the text ‘Varjak Paw’ by S F Said. Children will be building up to write a setting description inspired by Varjak Paw. They will use grammar structures they have learned in class to create their setting description.

Maths:

In Maths, children will be learning about shape and investigating 3D shapes by creating and talking about the properties of; cubes, cuboids, square and triangular based pyramids, triangular prisms and cylinders.

Wider curriculum:

Geography - children will be learning about volcanoes

PSHE - children will be learning about changes through life

Computing - children will learn to code with scratch

Reminders:

Homework will be set on a Friday every week and collected on a Wednesday. Homework books have been given out to all children.

Learn your spellings for next Friday's test.

Listen to your child read aloud for 10 minutes each day and write a comment in their reading record.

Practice TTRS 5 minutes a day (logins in reading records)

Children can also play Numbots to practice their addition and subtraction skills with the same login details as their TTRS login.

Please bring in reading books and reading records everyday - reminder that a comment should be made each time your child is heard reading at home. - These will be checked by the class teacher every Friday

PE days are Wednesday and Thursday - please ensure children arrive in the PE kit to school.

This half term children will be making a healthy snack in our DT lessons. Your child will shortly bring home a ‘shopping list’ of ingredients they would like to use. Please could you check that you are happy with their choices and help them to purchase all the ingredients. The date they will need to be brought in will be confirmed shortly. If you have any further questions please speak to your class teacher.

Dates for the Diary:

Alexandra Performance piece - Week beginning Monday 30th June - children to have a monologue prepared to perform in class this week (optional)

Sports day Friday 13th June

End of year:

Last school day is Tuesday 22nd July (1:30pm finish)

Both classes' Amazon wishlists have been updated and any donations from the list to your class would be greatly appreciated.