P3 and Mrs Latto | Mountfleurie Primary School

Block One (August – December 2025)

Hello and welcome to our Primary 3 page. We are looking forward to a great year in P3. Mrs Latto will be taking the class on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday after break and Friday, and Mr Welsh will be taking the class all day on a Wednesday and a Thursday morning.

Our gym day is a Thursday so please come in gym kit!

We started this term with a focus on our rights and responsibilities, working together to create our class charter. We chose: the right to be safe, to be healthy and to an education as our top three rights. We will continue to focus on our responsibilities and those who show the school values will be on our recognition board.

Topic

Our topic this block is The Rainforest. We started by thinking about what we know, and what we would like to learn. We will be brining a lot of our learning into this as we learn about the layers of the Rainforest, the animals and the climate. This will include literacy, expressive arts, STEM, ICT and more!

Numeracy and Maths

This block we will be focusing on: Place Value, Rounding, Shape, Angle, Symmetry and Transformation, Four Operations and Measurement. We will also continue to work on our word problems using all of our Numeracy skills.

Literacy

Our class novel is The House as the Edge of Magic. It is about hidden treasure, a wizard, and a magic house! We will be using our topic for a lot of our literacy focus including factfiles, letter writing, diary writing, and presentations.

We will also be using Literacy circles to work on our understanding of texts as well as doing spelling and handwriting weekly.

HWB: RSHP

In this block we will be covering My family/All our families are different.

During this block we will be focusing on Netball, Gymnastics and dance. We will also regularly take part in the daily mile.

Homework

Homework will go out every Friday and should be completed by the following Wednesday. The homework will consist of a reading book and a reading record for you to sign each week. Pupils who are reading books from our Oxford Reading Tree scheme (ORT) will also be provided with a word wall of common words for them to practise. Please can you ensure that your child brings their homework folder to school every day as we will need access to their reading book during class time to practise.

If you would like to further your learning at home here are some suggested websites you could use:

Literacy

Spelling and blending

https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/firstphonics/

https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/speller/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon-phonics-cvc-game

https://www.abcya.com/games/dolch-sight-word-bingo

https://www.abcya.com/games/alphabet_bubble_letter_match

https://www.abcya.com/games/alphabats_rhyming

Handwriting

https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/firstphonics/

Maths