Year 3 2024 - 2025

Daily Routine:

Doors open at 8:30 am and basic skills learning tasks begin straight away

Doors close promptly at 8:45 - If your child arrives after that time, please go through the school's main entrance and sign your child in.

Break is at 10:25.

Lunch is at 12:40.

Children are dismissed at 3pm.

This term P.E. for is on a Monday (3S) and Tuesday (3A) with Mr. Tyson.

This term Forest School is on a Thursday with Mr Kaitell and Mr Tyson.

What will we learn about in the Autumn Term?

Music

• Body Percussion with Ms Neville-Evans

 Science

• Animals including humans
• Human body
• Healthy living

Art

• Adding shade and tone to self-portraits
• Self-portraits in the style of Elisha Onegre
• Cave paintings

Design and Technology

• Healthy living - Developing cutting, chopping and peeling skills to create a healthy meal.

History

• Prehistoric Britain
• An overview of the stone age (tools, technology, migration and settlement)

Geography

• Map skills
• Identifying continents and oceans
• Finding lines of latitude and longitude
• Following compass directions

PSHE

• Living in the wider world
• The importance of rules to keep us safe

PE

• Ball handling skills - Handball

Maths

• Place value to one thousand including representing, partitioning, comparing and ordering
• Addition and Subtraction
• Multiplication and Division with a focus on using arrays, multiples of 2, 5 and10, and the 2, 3, 4, 8 times-tables
• Time and Roman Numerals to 12

English

• Exploring narratives and enhancing our writing with descriptive vocabulary
• Poetry based on nature

French

• Greetings
• Colours and numbers
• Animals
• Christmas Carols

Religious Education

• Creation and Covenant (Autumn 1)
• Prophecy and Promise (Autumn 2)

 Computing

• Word processing skills
• Making presentations
• E-safety

What are the homework expectations in Year 3?

1. Times Tables Rock Stars practice – at least 30 minutes per week (ideally 10 minutes per day to build speed and fluency)
2. Spelling and grammar assignments on Spelling Shed (30 minutes per week)
3. Reading each night with a parent/ carer. Please note a parental signature is required in reading records. Children will read at breaktime as per school policy if they are not reading at home

Attendance and Punctuality:

Please ensure that your child is in school on time. We practise many basic skills needed to access the learning every morning. Children who are late miss out on these important skills which affects their progress.  Being in school every day and on time gives them the very best chance of success.