Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
The start of an exciting journey into Key Stage Two!
Our webpage will keep you up to date with our current learning, wow moments and important information, as well as sharing useful documents, links and everything you need to know about school life in Year 3.
The Year 3 Team
Mozart Class
Mrs E. Stone & Mrs M. Butler
stone@hextable-primary.kent.sch.uk
Elizabeth Class
Miss K. Ellsley & Mrs N. Thorne
Ellsley@hextable-primary.kent.sch.uk
Shakespeare Class
Miss H. Laker & Mrs A. Holmes
hannah.laker@hextable-primary.kent.sch.uk
Miss E. Ruglys will be supporting across Year 3 throughout the week
General Information
Classroom doors open at 8:40AM. Registers will be taken at 8:50AM. If you arrive after this time, please go to the Junior Office, located on Rowhill Road.
Pick up at the end of the day is from 3:20PM to 3:30PM. If you arrive after this time, please collect from the Junior Office, located on Rowhill Road.
Please telephone to inform us of any illness/appointment/late arrival/late collection on: 01322 663792
If you make any alternative arrangements for pick up, please inform your child's class teacher either in person or via Class Dojo.
Now your child is in Key Stage Two, they require a small, soft pencil case containing: writing pencils, handwriting pens, whiteboard pens, glue sticks, a pink, green and purple biro along with a ruler, sharpener, rubber.
We ask that everyday the children bring their reading book/reading record to school.
Home Learning will go out on Thursdays and will be collected for marking on Tuesdays.
PE days - Tuesday and Friday - children to please come to school wearing PE kit on these days
Term 1
Tuesday 2nd September 2026 - Thursday 22nd October 2026
Term 1 Begins – 02/09/26
Flu Vaccinations – 18/09/26
Inflatables - 18/09/2026
Individual Photos- 22/09/26
National Poetry Day – 01/10/2026
Last Day of Term 1- 22/10/2026
Inset Day- 23/10/26
Term 2 Begins- 02/11/2026
Term 1 Newsletter Term 1 Home Learning Meet the Teacher
Theme
Take a moment to step outside and stand quietly and still. Turn off your technology and try to forget the modern world. Imagine this place 5000 years ago! What would you have done for fun? Prepare to travel back in time with us on our ‘Pre-historic adventures’ where we will experience life through the ages. Our first topic will take us back in time to the Stone Age where we will learn to live like real cavemen! The children will unearth ancient objects, experience cooking by an open fire, they will create cave paintings and replicate Stone Age jewellery.
Want to get involved at home?
Build a campsite in the garden using giant bed sheets, cushions and rugs, create a pretend (or real with safety precautions taken) fire and tell tribal tales together as a family. Get outdoors and cook a yummy stew or soup on an open fire, or visit a local Forest School for the day.
English
Our first text is ‘The Stone Age Boy’ which links perfectly to our topic. The children will write diaries about a day in the life of a Stone Age boy and poems about the differences between then and now. We will be taking the opportunity to learn within the environment in and around our school community too!
Maths
This term our focus is Place Value and Addition/ Subtraction. The children will learn to partition numbers into hundreds, tens and ones using concrete, pictorial and abstract methods. We will also introduce the children to using the column method for addition and subtraction of two and three digit numbers.
Curriculum Overview
Please browse our Curriculum Overview below, to see what we will be learning about throughout our time in Year 3.