Latchmere School

Year 3

Summer Term

We hope that you had a lovely Easter break. Welcome to the summer term where we look forward to the continuing partnerships between home and school.

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.

Year 3, we will be studying 'Gender Swapper Fairy Tales' by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett, 'Escape from Pompeii' by Christina Balit, 'The Promise' by Nicola Davies, and 'Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. 

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: fractions, money, time, shape and statistics.

Children should also use the Times Tables Rockstars program to increase their quick recall of multiplication and related division facts. We are looking at our 3, 4- and 8-times tables in Year 3.

Curriculum Highlights

This term, we will be learning about:

History – The Romans

Science – Plants

PSHE – Economic wellbeing (money, budgets and jobs)

RSE - Body difference, personal space and help and support

Physical Education – Athletics, Dodgeball, Cricket and Fundamental Skills

Religious Education - How and why do people mark significant events in life?

In Summer 2, the children will betaking part in RSE lessons. For more information about our RSE curriculum, please read our RSE policy which can be found on our trust website. The resources used in our lessons can also be viewed at the school office. 

You can find out more information all of the summer term learning by looking at the overviews and programmes of study.


Thank you in advance for all of your support,

The Year 3 Team


Key Dates

Simone Class Assembly –Thursday 30th April 2026

Monet Class Assembly- Thursday 7th May 2026

Kahlo Assembly - Thursday 21st May 2026

Roman workshop - Wednesday 10th June 2026

Updates and reminders

P.E

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

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)


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.