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 

Mrs Stutheit- 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.

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.  

  

Below is our Year 3 Spring 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.  

                                

Spring Term 2026
 

English

This term, we will be looking at the text ‘The great kapok tree’ with the end of unit outcome writing focus of writing a setting description on the rainforest. We will also be writing a persuasive letter to explain why we should save the rainforest.  In the second half term, we will be looking at the text ‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’ and writing a 1^st person narrative from a character’s perspective. We will also be writing instructions for a recipe for making chocolate.

 

                                            

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 Multiplying and dividing a 2-digit number by 1-digit number.  We will then move on to length and perimeter where children will be working with different units of measurement such as millimetres, metres and centimetres. Later in the term, we will begin to focus on Fractions and Mass and capacity.  

                      

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 light. In this unit, children will be identifying light sources and working scientifically to understand which objects are good light reflectors. In Spring 2, children will learn about Forces and Magnets.  

 

                                            

History 

Our history unit for this term will be Rainforest Explorers! Children will be learning about the layers of the rainforest, where rainforests are found in the world and what daily life is like.