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Year 3 Team 2025/26 - Teacher Letters
The Wider Curriculum
Science: This term we will be developing our knowledge about features of plants and discovering the importances of their functions. We will explore the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal. Finally we will finish our unit by creating seed classification charts.
Book links: https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/topics/science-maths-computing/plants-trees-ks2/
History: In history, we will be learning about Roman Britain, including why Camulondonum (Coventry) was chosen as the Roman capital and how the Britons felt about the Roman takeover. We will learn about Boudica’s revolt, including deciphering primary and secondary sources and bias, as well as how the Romans changed Britain.
Book links: https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/topics/history/romans/
Art: - In art this term we will be using a variety of different materials to explore storytelling through drawing and linear perspective. The artist who we will take inspiration from are Laura Carlin, Shaun Tan and Leonardo Da Vinci. We will delve into composition, sequencing, mark marking and text within drawings.
Jigsaw: I Jigsaw, we will be considering the relationships we have and how to be happy and safe within them. These include family, friendships and online relationships. We will also learn about children who face hardship and think about the things we appreciate about our own lives as a comparison.
RE: In RE, we will be learning about Humanism. We will learn that Humanist believe that Humans can be good without having religious beliefs by being moral. We will look at different stories that help humanists learn about the right thing to do and understand empathy.
English
Reading- During Summer 1, we will be reading Hodgeheg by Dick King- Smith
We will be developing our skills learnt, through using our skill of skimming and scanning the text to retrieve, infer using the information from the text to justify and understand word meanings.
Our reading for pleasure book this half term is:
Some other books children may be interested in around our topics and book of authors being read in school this half term are:
Writing- In our writing unit, we are going be using our guided reading book, The Hodgeheg, to develop our skills in letter writing. The purpose of our writing will be to persuade the reader to adopt behaviours to keep safe whilst crossing the road. We will be focusing on using conjunctions, including when, so, because and before and will continue to develop our use of paragraphs. Our final letter will be writing to Max, the hedgehog in our story, explaining what is in place to keep him safe.
We will also be looking at writing a non-fiction text about a woodland animal. We will be learning about adverbs and understanding how we can use adverbs to explain why something has happened. We will also be learning how to use ‘therefore’ and ‘however’ correctly.
Handwriting- During handwriting this term we will be looking at suffixes –er and –est (bigger/ biggest). We will then move on to Year 3 common exception words, within this we will be practicing writing from dictation, testing our listening skills.
Spelling- Each week spellings will be sent home in diaries looking at the spelling patterns children have been learning that week.
Useful links:
Spelling word list- https://cdn.oxfordowl.co.uk/2019/08/29/13/54/08/76f1443d-9b6d-4030-be0d-25fcfef01438/SpellingWordList_Y3-4.pdf
Helping with spelling- https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/spelling-year-3-age-7-8/
Activities- https://www.whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk/year-3-and-4-spelling-word-activities/
Reading at KPS - Information for parents
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Maths
Maths:
In maths, we will be expanding our knowledge of fractions through addition and subtraction and finding non-unit fractions of a number and shape. We will also develop our understanding of money. We will look at how to convert pounds into pence and learn how to work out how much change we would receive if we have given an amount that is larger.
Fractions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znbtrmn
Fractions: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/maths/primary-fractions/fractions-year-3-age-7-8/
Money: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8yv4wx
Money and Money management:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Bank_of_England_Education
Useful links:
Maths activities: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and-activities/
Work booklet: https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/free-downloads#download
Multiplication and division support: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z7hwnk7
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