Welcome to Year 3!

The home of inspirational Sportspeople

Class Simmonds -  The Class Teacher is Ms Baxter

Class Farah - The Class Teacher is Ms Boden

Year 3 Teaching Assistants:  Mrs Gillespie, Mrs Sartin and Miss Riding

Reminders

• Every morning the children engage in a Wake-Up task. Please ensure your child arrives promptly to school so that they do not miss out on their start to the day.  These activities begin from 8.35am.
• Please ensure your child comes to school in the correct uniform that is labelled, a bag for their belongings, labelled home-packed lunch if they are not ordering a school meal and a labelled water bottle.
• Children need to bring their own pencil case with the listed equipment, which can be bought from the school office if necessary - please see information leaflet below.
• Please ensure the children bring their school diary to school every day and you sign this on a weekly basis.  
• Children with long hair need their hair tied up - please bring spare hair ties to school.
• No hooped earrings and earrings must be removed or covered for PE lessons.
• Snacks for playtime should be healthy!
• Handwriting pens should be blue (no biros please)
• Please check your child's glue regularly.
• Please sharpen pencils at home to save learning time in lessons.

PE Lessons

• All children need to come to school wearing the correct PE kit
• Simmonds have PE on Thursdays and Fridays
• Farah have PE on Mondays and Thursdays
• Thursdays are outdoor PE lessons with coach James from BRS - on colder days, unless it is heavy rain, PE is still outside - think about a vest/base layers under school PE tops and coats.

What's coming up?

• The Learner of the Week will be announced every Friday in Celebration Assembly - who will it be?  The child's name will appear in the next newsletter.
• Every week the children have the number of their home reads counted for our class record.  The winners of the class reads within the school are announced every Friday in Celebration Assembly - we hope it will be a class from Year 3! 
• The school term begins - Thursday 4th September 
• Stone Age Experience day - Tuesday 16th September
• Ringwood Carnival - Saturday 20th September
• INSET days - Monday 22nd September, Monday 3rd November, Friday 13th February and Monday 1st June
• Clubs - clubs begin Monday 29th September 
• Disco night - Friday 3rd October
• Half term - w/c 27th October

Our Blog

30.9.2025

Week 5 and the children are contuing to settle into life at PJS and trying hard to follow the routines of lessons and the high expectations we have for their behaviour. Our highlights so far are still:

Computing - amazing creations using Paintz and the Sketchbook app on ipads. 

Art - creating natural paint using orche, berries and flowers.

We have all begun to read, Hodgeheg which is our Guided Reading text.  They have read Chapter 1 and are eager to find out if Max finds a safe way to cross the road.  We are still puzzled about how he got a bump to the head!

All chidlren need a large, flat stone for their art lesson next Tuesday.  Thank you.

16.9.2025

What a fantastic start the children are making!  Very well done, Year 3!  The children are settling and becoming more confident with the school expectations for their behaviour and routines for their learning.  We are working very hard on our listening skills by showing the speacker we are listening, by looking at the speaker.  

The children have enjoyed a FANTASTIC day during our Stone Age experience day.  They have engaged very well in all the activities from the Ancient Technology centre. If you are yet to make your payment on Arbor, please do as soon as possible.  It has been such a memorable day and these special days can only take place with your support.  

Enjoy reading about some aspects of our curriculum

Pencil Case Equipment List

Meet the Teacher Presentation

Year 3 Yearly Overview

To be updated and added soon.