Year 3 2026 - 2027

Mrs Massey

Year 3 Teacher & Deputy Head

To contact us direct, please could you email year3@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk

We are here to keep everyone in our school community safe. If you have a safety worry, Mrs Barber is here to help. Email head@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk

ðŸ‘‰ Welcome to Year 3 Bunting (teacher made)

General Information

The Year 3 staff team includes Mrs Massey, who teaches every day except Tuesday and Mrs Rowley who teaches Tuesdays. They are asisted by the amazing Miss Hagar, Mrs Holmes, Miss Fox and Mrs Clowes.

This half term, Year 3 shall be looking at Early Britons, including Stone, Bronze and Iron Age life. Later in the year, we will be comparing this time in British history with other Early Civilisations around the World, including the Ancient Egyptians.

In English, we will be looking at story telling about everyone's favourite bear plus some biographical and non-fiction writing.

In Maths, we will be getting to grips with larger numbers and place value and concentrating on immediate recall of multiplication tables and number bonds including a big focus on TT Rockstars.

Our Art theme will explore Prehistoric mark making and we will begin the journey in learning a foreign language with some sessions of French.

PE lessons this half term will be TBC.

To avoid bringing lots of things to and from school, we ask that on PE days, children come to school dressed in their PE kit.

Please ensure that long hair is tied back and that earrings are removed or covered.

Reading

Reading books and diaries should be brought into school every day. Every day there is some independent reading time in Year 3 so books need to be in school. Your child can change their reading book on any day. We expect at least 3 reads at home per week to be recorded. Please sign your child's reading record when you listen to them read and comment if possible.

School bags

Please ensure the only things the bag contains are lunch/snack, water bottles and reading books/reading records. Although Year 3 do have a locker, this has to contain coats, book bags and lunchboxes. All children will be provided with their own school equipment so there is no need to send in pencil cases etc

Homework

There will be a piece of written English and Maths set each week. It will be set on a Wednesday to be completed by the following Monday. Most pupils will also have words to practise spelling for an assessment on Monday. There is also an optional homework grid to enrich our main theme. Pupils can complete activities and bring in the results to show to their classmates.

Online homework tasks:

TT Rockstars (2x5 mins)

Spelling Shed (2 games) or two IDL lessons if applicable.

Every week, we will award Praise Points for completing this homework.

Should your child complete the Maths homework quickly, these are a few websites, with great games for further practice:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zmym3qt

https://whizz.com/year-3-maths-games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Please see the Files section for more information about our learning this half term.

If you need any further information, please contact us at:

year3@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk