Welcome to Year 3

Miss Peters and Mrs Truesdell.

Spring 1 

Key information for our class is below. For full information about the whole curriculum for Year 3, please visit the link to the curriculum page below. There is a whole curriculum overview which gives you the headlines for each subject for the whole year.

Welcome to Spring 1!  We are really looking forward to welcoming you back after the holidays and getting stuck into the first half of the spring term. Here are some of the highlights of our curriculum this half term:

  • English: Our reading and writing will mostly be based on the book 'The Stone Age Boy" by Santoshi Kitamura and the poem we will be looking at is "Somebody’s Mother" by Mary Dow Brine.
  • Maths: Number, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and geometry.
  • Science: Animals, including humans.
  • Geography: Farm to fork: How do we get our food? Farming in the UK.
  • DT: Food and Nutrition
  • Computing: Data and information.
  • RE: Jesus’ miracles - Christianity.

Other key information for Year 3 

PE - Monday and Thursday

Please come to school in school PE kit - shorts or tracksuit bottoms in cold weather, white polo shirt or t-shirt, a school jumper and trainers. Please make sure long hair is tied back and jewellery is not worn/ stud earrings taped up.

Home learning

  • Reading: Please read at least 3 times a week and get your reading logs signed by an adult. Bring it to school in your book bag every day and it will be checked at least once a week by an adult to be rewarded with house points.
  • Maths: TTRockstars.
  • Spelling Shed: Spelling Shed practice at least 3 times a week.

What to bring to school each day

  • Lunch box (unless your child is having a school packed lunch).
  • Water bottle.
  • Your home learning pack (reading book and reading log).

Library day 

Our library day is TBC.

Thank you for reading. If you have any queries, please contact the school office.

Useful websites

Map Reading Reading

GetOutside champion and naturalist Steve Backshall continues his series of map reading videos with Ordnance Survey. How to take a 4-figure grid reference with Steve Backshall and Ordnance Survey.