Walsingham is a village in Norfolk and is the site of an important vision of the Virgin Mary. In 1061, Richeldis de Faverches had a vision of Mary, who took her to her house in Nazareth. Mary asked Richeldis to build an exact copy of this house in Walsingham. The site is also known as the Nazareth of England, and it has been visited by pilgrims for centuries!
Our class teacher is Miss Evans and our wonderful teaching assistants are Miss Shally and Miss Peynado.
Please find below the Year 3 Meet the Teacher presentation for the 2025-26 year. It outlines an overview of our curriculum, reading expectations, communication and reporting, and uniform expectations.
St Elizabeth’s Meet The Teacher Presentation Year 3 September 2025
Science Forces Inc Magnets Knowledge Organiser
Rocks And Soil Knowledge Organiser
Science Animals Including Humans Knowledge Organiser
Describing Maps Of The World Knowledge Organiser
Weathering Knowledge Organiser
Local History Knowledge Organiser
Joseph Wright Knowledge Organiser
Antoni Gaudi Knowledge Organiser
We promote responsibility for learning through weekly homework. Homework is usually set every Friday, due in for the following Friday. For some topics however, we may set overarching projects, which are to be undertaken over a number of weeks. You will be given plenty of notice of the final due date in these cases.
The children will be rewarded for returning homework in on time. They are more than welcome to ask you for support with their homework if needed, but if substantial support was needed, please make note of this on the sheet so that I am aware of this upon return. Please ensure that homework is returned to school, and taken home, in their homework journals. This ensures that our work is kept neat and tidy. We should take as much care with our homework as we would with our classwork!
Parents, if you need support in knowing how to help your child with their maths homework, please see video tutorials on how to undertake the standard methods of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division below.
We encourage the children to use Times Tables Rock Stars and Spelling Shed – EdShed at home. We also ask that the children practice the words in their spelling log each night at home, revisiting words learnt in previous weeks. Children are expected to read at home for at least 10 minutes every day and the more often they read the better!
Formal Column Addition Method Tutorial (Whole and decimal numbers)
Formal Column Subtraction Method Tutorial (Whole and decimals numbers)
St. Elizabeth’s has a Franciscan heritage so our school values are based on Franciscan values. In Year 3, our class value is Respect. We understand respect to mean treating others as we wish to be treated, or as written in Mark’s gospel 12:31, “Love your neighbour as yourself”.
Prayer and worship are an integral part of our day.
Our R.E. topics last for around 4 weeks and our learning is summarised in the R.E. knowledge organisers, which will be added to this webpage when we start each new topic.
Our current R.E topic is ‘Homes’. During this topic the children will explore and develop an understanding of what makes a house a home.
To enhance your child’s learning experience in RE:
Recommended web links
Year 3 Homes Knowledge Organiser
Year 3 Promises Knowledge Organiser
Year 3 Visitors Knowledge Organiser
In English, we practise our decoding, fluency and comprehension reading skills through whole-class Talk for Reading sessions, small group reading sessions as part of a carousel, and by reading 1:1 with an adult weekly.
We use Accelerated Reader for our home reading scheme. Children have a dedicated home reading book which they have chosen from our collection in school. The books the children can access are based upon their optimal Zone of Proximal Development, as assessed by their progress on Accelerated Reader. This ensures that the books they choose are accessible to their reading level, but also promote challenge! Once they have read the book, they are to complete an Accelerated Reader quiz online, based on the events they have read. To support this, the children also have a reading journal, in which they can take notes and draw images in to help aid their retention of the book. The children are free to change their book as soon as they have read and ‘quizzed’ it. Please ensure that your child continues to bring in their home reading book on their allocated day so that we can assess their progress regularly. Please also ensure that the children take care of these books at home; we politely ask for a like for like replacement to be purchased for any lost or damaged books.
Children are expected to read at home for at least 10 minutes every day and the more often they read the better! This includes reading to an adult. We no longer use home-school reading diaries, and instead the children each have a vocabulary bookmark, upon which they are to write any unfamiliar words upon. We then look up the meaning of these words during our guided reading sessions in class. Please encourage your child to use these as a learning tool!
Children have been also given a bookmark on which they are to write down any words that they are unfamiliar with or have struggled to pronounce.
Your child will also now have their own ‘Reading Journal’, in which they can make notes and drawings about what they have read to help assist them when taking their end of book quiz. This is for both home and school use, so please ensure that it is returned to their school bag once used.
Your child is expected to bring their home-reading book into school once a week, on a set day (which the children are aware of). This is so that teachers and teaching assistants can listen to them read and track their progress. If your child fails to bring their book two weeks in a row, you will receive a letter making you aware of this.
Our writing lessons follow the Pie Corbett ‘Talk 4 Writing’ style of ‘Imitate – Innovate – Invent’; put simply ‘I do – We do – You do’. More information about this method of teaching can be found in the ‘Curriculum’ section of the website, under ‘English’. Our class will typically practise two genres each half term.
Starting in 2023, we have adopted a new spelling scheme, Read Write Inc. spelling. This follows on from our KS1 phonics scheme to allow for cohesive and consistent progression and development. The scheme teaches children methods for working out how to spell any words which have regular patterns. There is also a focus on irregular spelling patterns which need to be memorised.
We will now have set spelling sessions each week, running for 15 minutes 4x per week. All units follow the same format of fun activities, together with tips explaining when each spelling pattern is likely to be used. Assessment throughout a unit is ongoing and children will be logging spellings that they find difficult in their ‘Spelling Logs’. These words will be personalised to each child, as the children choose the words they wish to ‘log’, based on which words they have found difficult throughout the week. There will be 6 words to practise each week, with a focus primarily upon the spelling rule they follow. These words are then tested in partners (in a low-stakes manner) at the start of the following unit. You can help support your child by practising the words in your child’s spelling log each night at home, and by revisiting words learnt in previous weeks.
We will also continue to provide SpellingShed as a practice hub for the children at home. We encourage the children to practice spellings daily. The spellings set each week on SpellingShed have been lined up with the spelling rules present in the RWI scheme, allowing children to continue practicing on SpellingShed. The children get chance to practice their spellings on the Spelling Shed Mastery Zone once a week. Please encourage this at home!
This year, we are introducing the White Rose Maths scheme. White Rose is a carefully structured programme that helps children build a deep understanding of maths concepts, step by step. It follows the national curriculum and is designed to help children become confident, independent problem-solvers.
The scheme uses a “small steps” approach, meaning new learning is broken down into manageable chunks. It also encourages children to explain their thinking and explore different methods, helping to build fluency, reasoning and problem-solving skills.
Children will use a variety of visual aids and practical resources to support their understanding, and learning will be regularly revisited.
We are excited about using White Rose Maths in Year 3 and look forward to seeing the positive impact it will have on children’s confidence and progress in maths.
Maths is a vast subject and we appreciate that there’s more to it than reciting times tables. However, a lot of the rich, interesting mathematical concepts are all about multiplicative relationships, and these are hard to fully grasp without fluent recall of the tables. For that reason, learning the tables is fundamental – they are a key facilitator to the maths that sits on top.
When it comes to times tables, speed AND accuracy are important – the more facts your child remembers, the easier it is for them to do harder calculations. Times Tables Rock Stars (TTR) is a fun and challenging programme designed to help students master the times tables and help them reach the goal of being able to answer any times table (up to 12 x 12) in under 3 seconds. We encourage the children to use TTR at home and in school, and we have a weekly lunchtime Monday Maths club and a TTR award, which takes place in our Friday Achievement Liturgical Prayer.
In Year 3 we are focusing on learning our 3,4 & 8 times tables. Please find below some activities that can be used for practice at home:
We encourage the children to wear an analogue watch to school to help them to tell the time. If you have an analogue clock at home, encourage your child to look at it during the day and work out the time together (starting with o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to, then intervals of 5 minutes past the hour).
Children are asked to bring a water bottle to school each day. They are encouraged to drink water throughout the day to aid concentration. Healthy snacks (fruit and vegetables only) are needed for break times to keep the children going until lunchtime.
Please note that we are also a nut-free school due to allergies, so please do not send your child to school with any nut-based products for their snacks and lunches.
