Latchmere School

Year 3

Autumn Term

We hope that you had a lovely Summer break. Welcome to the Autumn term where we look forward to the continuing partnerships between home and school. As we begin the new academic year, we would like to remind everyone about the importance of attendance. Many of the subjects we teach rely on carefully sequenced and linked lessons and a missed lesson can have a detrimental impact on children’s understanding and ability to ‘keep up’ over the year. If your child will be absent for any reason, please let us know and do speak with your teacher if you have attendance difficulties that you need support with. 

Reading

Our goal is to create confident, fluent and independent readers. We prioritise reading at Latchmere School and have very carefully chosen the texts your child will study this term. In Year 3, we focus on word reading to develop fluency and encourage the whole class to join in through strategies such as choral reading (the whole class read together) and echo reading (the teacher models the reading and the class echo back). We also have the Latchmere Reading skills. These are based on comprehension skills such as retrieval, inference, summarising, making links, prediction and vocabulary.

In Year 3, we will be studying When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat, How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth, The Mousehole Cat and The Stone Age Boy. 

Maths

Our curriculum is based on the White Rose Maths programme. This research-based initiative ensures that the skills and concepts children taught are fully embedded before moving on. The children are taught strategies such as bar modelling and have plenty of opportunities to use ‘manipulatives’ such as counters and dienes all the way through the school.

This term we will be focusing on addition and subtraction, place value and multiplication and division. 

Children should also use the Times Tables Rockstars program to increase their quick recall of multiplication and related division facts.

Curriculum Highlights

This term, we will be learning about life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the Iron Age for our history learning. In Science, we will focus on rocks, soils and magnets. 



Thank you in advance for all of your support in the year ahead.

The Year 3 Team


Key Dates

Get to Know You Meeting

Thursday 17th September at 10:15am

Butser Ancient Farm

Friday 9th October 2026

Egyptian Workshop

Spring Term

Roman Workshop

Summer Term

Updates and reminders

Morning Routine

Year 3 children will access the school via the KS2 gate and will be met in the playground by their class teacher at 8.50am. The staff will take them into the classroom and there will be a starter activity waiting for them.

P.E

Year 3 will  have indoor and outdoor PE on Thursday mornings, taught by the P.E team. 

Please ensure that for outdoor PE, children are wearing weather appropriate kit such as jogging bottoms (blue, grey, black) as the weather turns colder.

Swimming (Autumn Term)

Monet - Monday Morning

Kahlo - Thursday Morning

Pencil case

Below is a list of resources that we would like the children to have for autumn term in a small pencil case. If you do not have these items, or cannot purchase them, please do not worry as we will be able to provide them.

·        2 x HB pencils

·        a ruler

·        a pencil sharpener

·        an eraser

·        2 x whiteboard pen

·        a red pen

·        child-friendly scissors

·        a glue stick (Pritt Sticks are much better for long term use)


Home Learning 
In Year 3, children will receive a home learning grid at the start of every term. This will include a range of activities to complete. The activities are optional. However, we do encourage the children to complete as many as they can.

Once they have competed an activity we would be delighted for them to bring their finished work into school so that they can share it with the class.

The children have access to ‘Century’ www.century.tech. Century allows children to independently learn at home. It personalises content, questions and pathways for every learner and identifies gaps in their knowledge. We will provide your child with their log in.

Our first spelling quiz will be on Thursday 17th September and you will receive the spelling homework on Monday 14th September. We will continue with this timetable throughout the year.

In addition to the above, we are also asking that children complete three clear daily tasks related to reading, learning of times tables and spellings. Please see the 3-2-1 home learning document for further information and note that the expectation is that children complete these activities daily.

Finally, please remember to send your child’s reading journal and book to school every day. 

Class Representatives  
If you would like to be a class rep, your class teacher will be very pleased to hear from you.  Each class normally has two or three class reps that will take the lead in communication and organising events. 

Snacks

Please send your child with a healthy (nut-free) snack for them to have during morning play, e.g. fresh fruit, rice cakes, dried fruit such as raisins/cranberries, malt loaf, plain digestive or rich tea biscuits. Please ensure your child comes to school with a named water bottle. 

Medication 

Please ensure that the school office has any relevant medication and that this medication is up-to-date.