Year 3
The Year 3 team is Mrs Biddlecombe, Mrs Nankivell, Mrs Perkins & Mrs Pattie
TLSA's - Mrs Harden
Welcome to Year 3
There is a Welcome to School presentation for each year group.
Welcome to Year 3 Parent Information evening September 2025
SUMMER term 2025
English will continue to develop confident, enthusiastic readers through daily shared reading sessions, building vocabulary in context alongside key skills in retrieval, inference, questioning and summarising. Spelling will be set weekly on Mondays and tested on Fridays, with children encouraged to extend their learning by writing sentences using their spelling words to support understanding and strengthen neat, cursive handwriting (an ongoing KS2 target). Summer 1 will continue our exciting author focus on Roald Dahl, with pupils writing a narrative continuation of The Twits and producing persuasive letters to report the mischievous characters to the RSPCA. Summer 2 will give children the opportunity to apply their skills through a range of engaging non-fiction writing linked to the year’s history and geography topics, as well as providing a special opportunity to buddy up with and support our current Year 2 children as they prepare for their transition into KS2 (hasn’t the last year flown!).
In maths, pupils will consolidate key skills through focused units following the four operations, including time, length and perimeter, statistics, mass and capacity, and shape. CenturyTech and TTRS will continue to provide engaging opportunities for recap, practice and consolidation at home.
Science will be hands-on and highly investigative, as pupils explore forces and magnets by testing materials, observing magnetic fields and discovering how forces act in the world around them.
In History and Geography, pupils will travel back in time to Ancient Egypt and explore how settlements develop, change and shape the lives of people, building a strong understanding of early civilisations and human geography. Our D&T unit will challenge the children to design, create and evaluate their own wearable technology product for a specific purpose, applying their understanding of design, function and user needs. Art will complement this learning through a creative paper-making unit linked to wider curriculum themes, giving pupils opportunities to design, make and evaluate their own work.
Our RE lessons will focus on Christianity through the question What do Christians learn from the creation story? before moving on to a thought-provoking thematic unit exploring how and why people try to make the world a better place. In PSHE, learning will begin with the unit Relationships before progressing to Changing Me in Summer 2, supporting children’s personal development, wellbeing and understanding of themselves and others.
Finally, PE will continue to be led by specialist coaches on Friday afternoons, alongside exciting Forest School experiences for 3P and 3S, a Bench ball festival, and, of course, swimming week. Further details on these external events will follow in due course.