Year 3 2025 - 2026

Welcome to the Year 3 Class Page

Our Year 3 Team 

Teachers: Mrs Fraser will be teaching Monday to Thursday. Ms Hudson will be teaching every Friday. 

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Brant and Mrs Dolmon will also be working closely with Year 3.

Volunteers: Mrs Frankland 

Our learning this half term

Our value focus this half term is Trust. We started the half term by thinking about what trust looks like and we discussed who would be within our circle of trust.

This half term in English we will be exploring the novel Into The Forest by Anthony Browne. The children will build up to create their own lost narrative as their written task. In Maths, we are focussing on our second unit of Fractions and Money and solidify their times table knowledge. In RE, we are learning about the Islamic religion exploring places of worship, religious symbols and the five pillars of Islam. In PE, children will be starting swimming for 12 weeks and in PE specific lessons, they will be doing athletics and then handball. For Science lessons, children will be learning about humans and animals specifically, food groups and fats within foods consumed, properties of animals including vertebrates and invertebrates and animal and human skeletons. In History, we are learning about Roman Britain which the children have been very excited about all year! We will be going on our trip to Chester to experience life as a Roman Soldier! 

Please see attached in the 'files' section our yearly overview for Year 3 to see what else Year 3 will be learning over the half term. If you have any questions or want to further your child's learning in any way, please contact Mrs Fraser or our school office. 

Contact details

Dojo remains our main method of communication. Please ensure that you are signed up for regular updates, photos and information and please don't hesitate to send a message if you have any questions.

Medical Conditions

If your child has a medical condition that we need to know about or needs to take medication, please inform us as soon as possible. A medical form will need to be completed from Mrs Bond in the office. 

Reading

We love reading in Year 3! Please ensure that your child keeps their reading book and record in their bag so that they are accessible at any time throughout the week.

We encourage all children to read for around 20 minutes each night. This can be done independently or to an adult. In the classroom we will be reading each day to ourselves, our friends and our teachers. 

Reading books will be changed on a Wednesday morning each week. 

Here are some recomendations for books in Year 2 and Year 3:

Year 2: https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year2

Year 3: https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year3

Timestables

Children will be practising their timetables as part of their curriculum in school. Please try to also practise them at home. We will be using Times Table Rockstars in school which can also be accessed at home too. Your child's login will be provided inside their reading record. In school, we also use Hit the Button on Top Marks to practise times tables and other areas of maths. 

Times Table Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/

Hit the Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button  

Spelling

Spellings will be given out each half term. Please try to practise them as often as possible. Please see the PDF attached in the files below to have a go at practising spellings in different ways.

Spelling tests will take place on a Wednesday.

P.E 

P.E will be every Thursday. Please send your child into school dressed in their P.E kits and with a bottle of water. In colder weather it is permitted to wear black jogging bottoms/ leggings. Please remember to wear a plain, white t-shirt and a school jumper/cardigan. No hoodies please. 

Year 3 will now be going swimming on Thursdays.  Swimming caps can be bought from the school office for £2. A reminder that no jewellery is permitted when swimming (including earrings). 

Please note that whilst Year 3 are swimming on a Thursday afternoon, they will also still have PE on a Thursday too. 

A.O.B.

Please find below our Year 3 Curriculum Overview and other useful documents: