Year 3
Autumn 2, 2025
Welcome to Year 3!
We hope you had a lovely half term break and are ready for more learning in year 3 with lots of new things to learn.
Start time - 8:40am Pick up time - 3:15pm
If you have any questions, concerns or worries, please contact me at year3@cpa.dsat.education and we will do our best to respond as soon as we can.
Key information
Please ensure that your child brings a labelled water bottle to school everyday as well as ensuring that all items of your child's uniform is clearly labelled too. Snacks are not provided in Key Stage 2, please send with your child a healthy fruit snack or cereal bar for break time.
Reading books will be changed on Thursdays, please ensure your child brings their reading book and their reading record to school.
Homework will be sent out on a Thursday and will be due back the following Thursday.
Please click on the link below to find the information shared during our Beginning of Year meeting in September.
Curriculum
Please see attached the Year 3 curriculum for 2025-2026
Here is a summary of what we will be learning in Year 3 during the first half of Autumn term:
Autumn 2
Reading
This term we will be reading a variety of small texts. The pupils will be learning how to answer a wide range of questions linked to the text following the VIPERS questioning (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Sequence/Summarise).
Writing
This term in Writing we will be creating our writing around the story of ‘The Winter's child’.
By the end of the unit the children will be able to write a recount letter.
The writing skills focused upon will be:
Use conjunctions and adverbs to express, time, place and cause
Use a or an according to whether the next word begins with a vowel or consonant
In narratives, create characters, settings and plot
Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
Maths
This term in maths children will learn Addition and Subtraction of 3 digit numbers, including regrouping. Multiplication and division, fractions
Children will be able to understand mentally add and subtract from 3 digit numbers as well as learn different strategies to help them with their addition and subtraction.
Children will learn their 4,3 and 8 times tables and be able to recognise how to divide a multiple. As well as problem solve.
Children will learn how to recognise fractions, count in 10ths, add and subtract fractions.
Science – Light and shadows
In this module, children will learn to:
● recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light
● notice that light is reflected from surfaces
● recognise that light from the Sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their
eyes
● recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque
object
● find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.
PE
PE will be taught every Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure that children wear their school uniforms to school and their PE kit in a bag to get changed into. Earrings must be taken out or covered for PE and children must be able to do this themselves.
This term we will be focusing on PE ball skills and gymnastics
Religious Education
What is the Trinity?
Children will learn about Christianity and the incarnation of Jesus. Children will also learn and investigate how the trinity links to Incarnation.
French
Year 3 will begin to learn French as their Modern Foreign Language (MFL).
In Autumn term we will learn about the different fruits in French as well as having a lesson about how to say Merry Christmas.
Geography
Settlements, linking to the local settlement of Edenthorpe and Doncaster.
Children will be able to recognise different settlements, explain how they know it is a settlement and identify a settlement on a map.
D and T
In D and T this term, children will be learning about structures. The children will investigate what is needed in order to build a castle. Children will then design and create their own castles using the research they have done.
Music
Children will develop their musicality this term by the continued practise of using recorders and glockenspiels. Whilst learning how to play these instruments, children will begin to play together as a band.
Computing
This term children will learn about Route planners . Children will understand what a code and an algorithm is. The will learn how to get a turtle to move within Purple Mash and debug their own errors within.
PSHE
This term children will learn about how families change and why not all families are the same.
Thank you for your support. If you ever have any questions, please feel free to speak to a member of the Year 3 team.
Miss Westwood (Class Teacher)
Mrs Ridgeway and Mrs Creighton (LSA)