Year 3
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Year 3 Team 2025/26 - Teacher Letters
The Wider Curriculum
Science: In Science, we will be exploring forces and magnets. The children will compare how objects move on different surfaces and learn to recognise forces as a push or a pull. They will observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials but not others. By the end of the unit, the children will also be able to describe magnets as having two poles and predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.
History: In history, we will be answering the question ‘How did life change for people living in Prehistoric Britain?’ To do this we will explore what life was like for people living in the stone age, bronze age and iron ages and use different historical sources to analyse how they survived and lived. We will develop our understanding of chronology and be able to describe were this time period came in history.
Art: In art, we will be exploring ways artists sketch characters, including artwork by Quentin Blake. We will then be creating sculptures inspired by our sketches, using Modroc. We will then explore mixing paints in palettes to achieve our desired colours in order to paint our sculptures.
Jigsaw: In Jigsaw, we will be focusing on the unit Being Me in my World. We will getting be to know our new class and to value ourselves, and know how to make someone else feel welcome and valued. We will think about how to face new challenges positively, make responsible choices and ask for help when needed. We will consider our own need to make responsible choices and how our actions can affect ourselves and others, and the importance of caring about other people’s feelings.
RE: In RE, we will be looking at our new enquiry question: How do Christians show that 'reconciliation' with God and other people is important? Children will learn that reconciliation means mending a broken friendship. We will learn that Christians learn about reconciliation from the Bible through stories Jesus told such as the prodigal son. We will also develop our understanding that Christians believe God wants them to be peacemakers based on the example of Jesus and learn about Desmond Tutu as a peacemaker.
English
English:
Reading- During the Autumn term we will be reading a variety of picture books including:
We will be developing our skills learnt in year 2, through retrieving, interpreting characters thoughts and feelings, predicting what will happen next in stories, retelling stories and sequencing events.
Our reading for pleasure book this half term is: The Twits by Roald Dahl.
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 units, we are going to build on our Year 2 writing skills using our guided reading book ‘Hurricane’. We will be writing setting descriptions and understand that to write an exciting description we need to include this units key skills-
Making the writing exciting by varying our word choice
Using expanded noun phrases to tell the reader more about the noun using exciting adjectives
Using similes to describe something by comparing it to something else.
Our second unit this half term will be creating a comic strip about the story, ‘The Stone Age Boy’ which will build on previous key skills and introduce the new skill of time conjunctions to order events.
Handwriting- To build on the foundations established in Year 2, we will begin by reinforcing correct letter formation, size, and orientation, focusing on letter families such as those that ascend, descend, curve, and zigzag. Following this, we will advance to letter-joining techniques to promote smooth transitions between letters and enhance writing fluency. The term will conclude with a focus on capital letters.
Spelling- In spelling we will be recapping our phonics knowledge from year 2 and reminding ourselves of the year 1 and 2 high frequency words.
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Maths
Maths: In maths we will be developing our place value knowledge from 2 digit to 3-digit number. We will be recognising the value of digits in numbers up to 1000, ordering and comparing numbers as well as representing and identifying numbers. We will use this knowledge to solve number problems such as finding 10 or 100 more or less of a number.
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