Year 3

Autumn 1, 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.

Year 3 Beginning of Year meeting information

Curriculum

Here is a summary of what we will be learning in Year 3 during the second half of the Summer term:

Autumn 1

 

Reading

This term we will be reading the book called ‘The Sea Book’. This is a non-fiction text. 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 Seal Surfer’.

By the end of the unit the children will be able to write a recount letter.

The writing skills focused upon will be:

-          Grouping related ideas into paragraphs

-          Build a varied and rich vocabulary

-          Use prepositions to express time, place and cause.

 

Maths

This term in maths children will learn Number Sense, Place Value and Graphs.

Children will be able to understand a wide range of numbers and learn about what makes a number.

In place value children will learn numbers including thousands.

In graphs children will be able to interpret and create their own graphs.

 

Science – Rocks, soils and fossils

In this module, children will learn to:

-          Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.

-          Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

-          Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock.

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 fundamentals and Fitness.

Fundamentals - Fundamental movement skills are the basic movements that you use throughout life. These skills involve different parts of your body and help you do things like running, jumping, and balancing. They're like the building blocks for all the other sports and activities you'll do in your life.

Fitness - Being fit means our bodies are strong and healthy. When we're fit, we have more energy to do fun things like play games with friends, run around at the park, or even just go for a walk with family.

 

Religious Education

 

French

Year 3 will begin to learn French as their Modern Foreign Language (MFL).

In Autumn term we will learn how to pronounce the French phonemes as these differ to how it is pronounced in English.

We will also be following the unit ‘I am learning French’. By the end of the unit pupils will have the knowledge and skills to be able to introduce themselves, say how they feel and have a wider appreciation for the country/countries where the foreign language is spoken

 

History

Stone Age – How did life change from the Stone Age to the Iron Age?

 

Art

In Art this term, children will be using their drawing skills. Children will learn how to create light and shade in order to a 3D effect, creating a true drawing.

 

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 compose and write their own music onto a music sheet.

Computing

This term children will learn about emails and communication. Children will understand what an email is as well as how to compose an email.

Children will also be able to learn about how to keep themselves safe by learning about their self-image on the internet.

PSHE

This term children will learn about how to stay and maintain a healthy lifestyle. As well as this they will understand the importance of how to stop getting themselves ill.

 

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 Parker, Mrs Laud, Mrs Ridgeway and Mrs Creighton (LSA)