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? 

Mr Parkinson - Class Teacher 

Miss Jones - 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.

Forest School

Throughout the year, children have the opportunity to continue with their weekly Forest School sessions in the Forest School area.  In autumn term, Forest School sessions will take place every Thursday afternoon for one hour. This is an exciting way to learn in an outdoor setting and is proven to improve children’s confidence, self-esteem, and communication skills as well as them having lots of fun!  They develop skills in team work, using tools safely and learning about looking after our natural environment. During the session, the children will take part in a range of activities including den-building, wood craft, playing games and cooking on a campfire! 

Reading 

Children should be reading regularly to an adult at home - at minimum of 3 times a week.  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 Monday 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.  

Below is our Year 3 Autumn Homework Grid which includes spellings for the term as well as extra pieces of homework that children can choose to complete at home across the term.  

Autumn Term 2025
 

English

This term, we will be looking at the text ‘Stone age boy’ with the end of unit outcome writing focus to re-write the story in the children’s own words. We’ll also be looking at the text ‘Explore! Stone, Bronze & Iron Ages’ and writing a non-chronological report. In the second half term, we will read ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs’ and write a character description about the wolf as well as a journalistic recount of events in the story. 

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 place value, with a key focus on representing and partitioning numbers to 1,000. We will then move on to addition and subtraction where children will be working towards adding 3-digit numbers and subtracting a 2-digit number from a 3-digit number. Later in the term, we will begin to focus on multiplication and division.  

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 animals and skeletons.  In this unit, children will be focusing on vertebrates and invertebrates as well as describing their favourite animal, considering its diet, body, shape, skeleton and muscles. In Autumn 2, children will learn about rocks.  

History 

Our history unit for this term will be Early Britain! Children will be learning about what daily life was like in stone age and what changed in Britain during the Bronze and Iron Ages.  

Autumn 1 Highlights