Bournehall Primary School

Inspiring a Love of Learning

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Bournehall Avenue, Bushey, Hertfordshire WD23 3AX

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 Welcome to Year 3 

Class Teacher:  Miss Clarke

Teaching Assistant Mrs Decourcey

 

 Our PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Homework will be posted onto Google Classroom every Friday. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me at jclarke@bournehall.herts.sch.uk 

Key dates

Thursday 16th January - 27th March - Group 2 Swimming (every Thursday)

Wednesday 12th February & Thursday 13th February - Parent/Carer consultations

Wednesday 26th February - Roman workshop day

Reading:

When you read at home, log your reading on Boom Reader. You can log books from home as well as books from school.

Please make sure books are logged with a comment about the reading/story.

 

Reading VIPERS gives lots of examples of questions to discuss while reading. These will help children develop the comprehension skills of Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summary.

Oxford Owl has a huge ebook library among other resources. You just need to create a free account.

Reading Eggspress also has a library as well as our homework activities.

Are you looking for a new book to read?

Have a look at this list of recommended reads from Booksfortopics.com.

Click here to view the book list.

Home activities
Here are some activities you could do at home to help practice what we have learnt at school!

Spelling
SpellingPlay.co.uk
Hangman
Boggle
Word ladder
Colour coding - Write the consonants in one colour and the vowels in another
Word jumble
Word match
BBC Bitesize
Topmarks.co.uk - Words and Spelling, English Games for 5-7 Years (& 7-11 Years)
Jottings - in any way possible, practice writing them! In water, mud, chalk, sand, flour or simply pen and paper.

Maths
Topmarks.co.uk - Maths learning games
home.OxfordOwl.co.uk - Fun maths games and activities 
Mathsframe.co.uk
BBC Bitesize
Bingo
Four in a row multiply
Noughts and crosses - Write a calculation in each square, once its solved you can take the square
Shape scavenger hunt
Dominoes
NRICH.org - Maths at Home

Recommended Resources:

Spelling:

Spelling Frame has brilliant games to reinforce the learning of spelling patterns and High Frequency/ Common Exception Words.

Here are some useful word lists:

High Frequency Words:

Year 1/2 Common Exception Words

Year 3/4 Common Exception Words

Fun Spelling Practice Ideas

Class Novel: 

The Danger Gang               Operation Gadgetman!: Amazon.co.uk: Blackman, Malorie: 9780440863076: Books