Use this page to find out about this year's learning across the curriculum.  

Don't forgot to monitor our class dojo page for daily learning updates and challenges.

https://www.classdojo.com

Who's who? 

Who's who? 

Mr Parkinson - Class Teacher 

Miss Jones - Learning Support Assistant 

Mrs Altinkupiu- Learning Support Assistant

PE 

PE lessons will take place every Wednesday afternoon. Children should come to school wearing their full PE kit (navy/black joggers or shorts, house colour/white t-shirt, and dark jogging top or blue school jumper). If children arrive in the wrong (or no) PE kit, they may be asked to change into a spare school PE kit.

Swimming

Year 3 will be going swimming every Wednesday this term so please make sure your child has a bag for swimming clothes and a towel. Armbands will be provided by the swimming centre. No Jewellery or earrings and hair tied back. Mrs Illingsworth and Mrs Altinkupiu will be taking the children to swimming.

Reading 

Children should be reading regularly to an adult at home - at minimum of 3 times a week. Reading books and diaries need to be brought to school every day. Year 3 home reading books can be changed every Tuesday and Friday. Reading Records are checked every Friday and the number of times your child had read is noted down. Reading certificates are awarded every 20th log in their record.  

  

 Homework: Spellings, Reading and Times Tables 

Year 3 children will take home one piece of homework every Tuesday which will have a spelling focus. These words will be tested in a written spelling test in school the following Monday.  We recommend that spellings are practiced every day.  

Children will also take home a new reading book every Friday.  This book will correspond with their reading level in school.  Children are encouraged to read for 10 minutes every day.  Reading can be recorded in their red reading logs. 

When testing times tables, focus on facts that children are unable to recall automatically. All children have access to Times Tables Rockstars and should be practising for 10 minutes each day.                         

Summer Term 2026
English

This term, we will be looking at the text ‘Tales of Gods and Pharaohs’ with the end of unit outcome writing focus of writing to narrate our own version of one of the stories we have read. We will also be writing to inform through a non-chronological report about Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. In the second half term, we will be looking at the text ‘Oliver and the Seawigs’. We will be writing to recount events as in role of Oliver at a key point in the story as well as writing to persuade people to visit the island with a leaflet or advert.

 

                                            

Maths

In Year 3 we plan and teach using the white rose scheme of work. This scheme of learning is designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning and is consistent with the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum. The children have opportunities to build competency through concrete, pictorial and abstract approaches. The children have opportunities to revisit and consolidate prior learning and build upon this, using strategies to solve problems and mathematical language to explain our reasoning. 

During this term, we will be learning about fractions such as how to add and subtract fractions.  We will then move on to money where children will be working to convert pounds and pence, add and subtract money. In our time unit children will be telling the time to 5 minutes and to the minute, using am and pm, using durations for hours and minutes. Then in shape we are comparing angles, measuring and drawing accurately, recognising 2D and 3D shapes and making them. Finally, in statistics we are interpreting and drawing pictograms and bar models as well as collecting and representing data.

 

                      

Please find a range of resources to support your child in maths: 

Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com) 

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk) 

Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks 

1-Minute Maths App | White Rose Maths 

5-a-day – Corbettmaths Primary 

  

Science 

During this term, we will be learning about plans. In this unit, Pupils carry out a long-term investigation of the factors that affect the growth of plants, observing and measuring their plants for the course of the unit.  They learn about the main functions of the different parts of a plant and will study the life cycle of a flowering plant, including studying the structure of a flower and the different methods of seed dispersal.

  

                                            

History 

Our history unit for this term will be Egyptian Discoveries. Pupils will be taught the achievements of the earliest civilizations and go through a depth study of Ancient Egypt.