St Mary's Church of England School
Nurturing Creative Thinkers

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St Mary's CE Primary School,
Kendal Road,Kirkby Lonsdale,
Cumbria LA6 2DN

Year 3

Mr Bromley is our teacher this year and he is supported by Miss Swallow. Year 3 is a very exciting year as the children make the transition from KS1 to KS2. They are encouraged to become more independent both in themselves and their learning.
We learn to play a recorder to a very good standard and read music – a life skill! Our topics are very varied and interesting ranging from the Rainforest, Romans, Countries on the Meridian, Volcanoes and much more. This is a busy year, but we have lots of fun on the way!

Spellings are handed out on Mondays or Tuesday and tested on the following Monday. We work on different aspects of the spellings all week and the children should be able to explain the spelling rule or pattern.
Initially, homework will be discussion based and handed out before the weekend and shared early on Monday or Tuesday the following week. However, your children will also have access to Times Table Rockstars and Doodle Maths, which, along with reading, should be done wherever possible throughout the week. We are making sure the children are able to get on to these apps during our first few days in school and their passwords will be in their planners, should you need them.

We discuss world news events every Monday morning so any opportunity for the children to follow news events through newspapers, Newsround or any other news outlet you prefer to use would be most helpful. As a rough guide, we will be focusing on good news stories and world events, which will allow us to build our geographical understanding of the world.

We are beginning to use Google Classroom both when we are in school and for homework. We use Google Classroom in Year 4, 5 and 6 and it is incredibly useful when sharing information, working collaboratively and accessing learning when working remotely. The children all have log in details, but will need a bit of help to log in at home. If this causes any problems, please do get in touch and we will be happy to help.

Year 3 Staff

Mrs A McCanlish - Year 3

Mrs McClanlish is supporting Year 5 this year.

Mr T Watson - Year 3

Mr Watson provides intervention and support for children. Mr Watson is also working as a sports teacher offering high quality activity both in curriculum time and during lunch and after school club. In addition Mr Watson leads After School Club.

Mr D Bromley BA Ed (Hons) - Year 3

Having grown up in Kentmere and Ings, I returned to Cumbria after 10 years living and working in and around the Greater Manchester area. Although I thoroughly enjoyed living ‘down south’ and gained valuable experiences in different classroom environments, I am glad to be back and able to indulge in my outdoor hobbies such as […]

Latest News

European Languages Day

We have had a superb day with the whole school dressing up and learning new languages. We have visited (virtually) a whole range of countries including, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Scotland, Italy and France. What a great adventure we have had which was a day of food tasting, geography skills, learning new languages and lots […]

New Head and Deputy Boys and Girls

Congratulations to our children who have become the new head boys and girls for this year.

Social Media – Please follow us…

We have launched our new social media pages – please follow us and share with others….

We are Back!

Welcome to all of our children who have returned to school this week. We are so excited that we have been able to start school again. What an amazing start we have made. Over the next few weeks we are making every effort to ensure our children take time to talk about what they have […]

Returning to School

Welcome back. We want our children to feel safe and happy at school. Children will wash hands regularly. They will be in class bubbles which will limit contact with other children. Children will not be wearing masks during school time but may will need to wear masks if travelling on school transport. We are really […]

Welcome Back

We are looking forward to welcoming our children back on Wednesday 2nd Sept.

Year 6 Leavers’ Video

Covid-19 has not stopped us giving the Year 6 children a sendoff. It might not be quite what we are used to, but at least we were able to get together, celebrate what we have managed to achieve and to look forward to the future. There may have been a couple of technological issues towards […]

Year 6 Leaver’s Service Video

Throwback 2019-20

Hello there, we are sharing a few of the videos of our year as we draw close to the end of a different year and the end of summer term. We hope you enjoy this video from December 2019. There will be more to come hopefully….