Welcome to Year Three 2025/2026

Mrs Muirhead and Miss Simpson are so happy to welcome our new students to year three.  We are so excited to get to know all of them and can't wait to discover all of their talents. Our expectations are high but the children will be rewarded by making good progress which will help them achieve all they are capable of.

Our aim is that all children will get an extremely well-balanced curriculum as we understand the importance of learning opportunities that can be gained from delivering a broad curriculum. As part of maintaining our rich curriculum, your children will have many enrichment opportunities to reach out to the world around them through prayer, words, work and play. 

Your class teachers: Miss Simpson and Mrs Muirhead

Hi.  My name is Miss Simpson and I am extremely excited to be starting here at St Mary’s this year! I love reading and encouraging children to read. I also love to teach maths and science. Outside of school I love to spend time outdoors with my family and dog. My other passion is swimming.

Hi.  My name is Mrs Muirhead and I have been teaching for nearly 25 years in different schools within Manchester.  I love teaching especially the subject, English.  In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family, crafting and eating out! I am really excited to be teaching your children this year!

Contact details: admin@stmaryslevenshulme.org.uk with attention to Mrs Muirhead or Miss Simpson.

Key dates:

Whole School Mass: 16^th September 2025

Celebration of learning: 26^th September 2025

English and Maths Parent Workshop: 16^th October 2025

Christmas Party Day: 11^th December 2025

Christmas Dinner Day: 17^th December 2025

House Day and Book Awards: 17^th December 2025

Year 3 Mass: 10^th March 2026

Year 3 Assembly: 6^th May 2026

Year 3 Sports Day: 20^th May 2026

Summer Fair: 1^st July 2026

Transition Day: 3^rd July 2026

Year 3 Timetable:

Here is a normal daily timetable for Year 3 students:

8:30: School opens

8.30-9:15: Handwriting and arithmetic

9:15am – 10:30am: Maths or English                   

10.30am – 10:45am: First break           

10.45am – 12.05pm: Reading & English or Maths

12.05pm – 1.05pm: Lunch

1.05pm - 3.05pm: Science/Topic/PE/Spanish/PSHE/Computing

3.10pm: Prayer and home time 

This will be subject change on a daily basis to accommodate all of our enhanced learning opportunities during this term.

What is our curriculum offer?

Healthy eating:

Most children require a snack at morning break to keep them going through the day.

We encourage children to bring in healthy snacks full of vitamins and minerals containing no added salt, fat or sugar. Many of these will help contribute to their 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables, keep them alert and help them concentrate. It can be hard during the week to think of suitable items for them to bring in to school, but we are aiming, with the help of the children, to not only support them in making healthy choices regarding snacks, but to also reduce food packaging and waste. Providing snacks in a small, named, recyclable container is ideal.

If you are intending to send in healthy snacks with your child please limit them to the list below. 

• Vegetable sticks – such as celery, cucumber, peppers or carrot, a range of colour ensures different vitamins and minerals. 
• A piece of cheddar cheese or babybel 
• A piece of fresh or dried fruit, high in soluble fibre and vitamins would also be a great snack– pineapple, mango, kiwi, plain raisins, apricots, blueberries, banana slices. 
• Bread sticks, plain pretzels, banana bread, malt loaf, oat/rice cakes and small pitta breads are also good snacks, providing children with carbohydrate to sustain them in-between meals. 
• Homemade snack - flapjacks or other oat/whole grain based snack. These must be nut free. Items brought into school should be carefully checked by you, to ensure this. St. Mary’s RC Primary School has pupils who are severely allergic to a range of nuts. 

We are aiming for a common-sense approach, with the key being to keep it healthy and no chocolate, sweets or crisps.

We need the children to stay hydrated and so please ensure they bring a named water bottle into school daily. Squash and fruit juice are not permitted. We hope that with your help, we can encourage the children to develop healthy eating habits that become a normal part of everyday life. By keeping high calorie snacks to a minimum and establishing healthy eating habits early on, improvements can be made for a child’s quality of life both in the short and long term. 

Frequently asked questions:

When is our P.E. slot?

3M

Swimming will take place on a Tuesday morning. Outdoor P.E. will take place on a Thursday afternoon. Please refer to the link on this website for P.E. uniform information: https://www.stmaryslevenshulme.org.uk/school-uniform/

3S

Our P.E. slot is on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Please refer to the link on this website for P.E. uniform information: https://www.stmaryslevenshulme.org.uk/school-uniform/

When do we bring our reading books and reading records in?

The children should keep their reading records up to date and will be expected to bring them, and their reading book, in every day even if they have not finished their book. This will allow us to monitor how much your child is reading at home. We would like parents listen to their child read, initial their reading record and to discuss their book with them at least once a week. We expect your child to read for a minimum of 30 minutes each evening. This will really help them to make good progress in all aspects of the curriculum.

What is our home learning offer and when is our home learning due in?

Every week:

Spelling - 10 minutes practice every night – pupils learning of their spellings will be on Tuesday.

Timestables (TTRS) - 10 minutes every night - pupils learning of their spellings will be on Thursday.

Reading - 30 minutes every night – reading record check will be on a Wednesday

Sticky Questions – sent home for discussion on Monday, discussion in class every Friday

Useful information:

TENTEN PARENT PORTAL DETAILS

• Parent portal leaflet.pdf