Term 3 Key Dates

January 2026

• Monday 5 Jan – Term 3 Begins

• Tuesday 6 Jan – Epiphany Mass @10am

  Parent Coffee Morning: Sensory Processing – Simon Worthington OT

• Thursday 8 Jan – Year 3 Trip: Guildhall Museum (Stone Age)

• Friday 16 Jan - PTFA: Y3 & Y4 DISCO

• Wednesday 28 Jan – Parents Workshop: RSHE Tricky Conversations @2.30pm via Teams

• Friday 30 Jan - Housekeeping Meeting & Parents invited to view books (LKS2 – Y3 & Y4) @3.30pm

February 2026

• Monday 2 Feb – Candlemas Mass @10am

• Wednesday 4 Feb – NSPCC Number Dress: Dress up as a Rockstar

• Monday 9 Feb – Children’s Mental Health Week begins

• Tuesday 10 Feb – Safer Internet Day

• Friday 13 Feb – Parent Forum @2pm 

  TAG Day – Wear Own Clothes

  PTFA: Cake Sale

• Monday 16 Feb – Half Term Begins

  PE: Thursday

 This term your child's PE day is on Thursdays. Please send your child to school in their PE kit on this day ensuring that all items are labelled. Remove any earring when possible, if unable, please let the class teacher know and cover the earrings with earring covers and ensure children have long hair tied up.

Interventions

There will be interventions on a daily basis. These will be available to support each child in their learning. For your child to get the most out of their interventions, please arrive promptly at school for 8:30.

Reading

Every child is expected to read for at least 20 minutes per night and have their learning journal signed by an adult to show that they have read. House points will be given for daily reading at the end of each week.

When your child has finished reading a book, they will complete a STAR reading quiz to check their understanding and comprehension of what they have read.

 Spellings 

Weekly spellings will be given on a Monday morning and will be tested every Friday. Please encourage your child to practice and use them in sentences to help with their understanding of the meaning. If your child misspells a word from the spelling list in the Friday test, the way they wrote it will be written next to the spelling in their reading journal so that parents can see the error made and continue to work on this spelling at home.

 Times Tables

 In year 3, their target times tables are to know and recall their 3s, 4s, 8s times tables along with the 2s, 5s and 10s from previous year. Please encourage them to practice this daily. Below are some of the links to help with this. Please encourage your child to engage with TTRockstars. This a fun interactive app for your child to enjoy and learn with. The children can receive a special award for being the TTRockstar of the week!

Purple Mash

PurpleMash tasks will be set on Mondays and will have a deadline of Friday each week. This is another interactive way of encouraging some fun learning at home. The children will be given 25 housepoints for completing PurpleMash homework.

 Contact your Teacher

 If you wish to contact your child's class teacher, please write a note in their learning journal which is checked daily. We will respond as swiftly as possible. If the matter is urgent, please feel free to contact the main office who may be able to assist you, book you in an appointment to see your teacher or send through an urgent phone call.

 Celebration of the Word and RSHE