Year 3
The Year 3 team is Mrs Biddlecombe, Mrs Nankivell, Mrs Perkins & Mrs Keogh
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
spRING term 2025
Happy New Year from the Year 3 Team!
We are delighted to welcome everyone back for another exciting term of learning in Year 3! This term is packed with opportunities for pupils to explore, create and challenge themselves across the curriculum.
In English, each class will begin a new shared reading text to further develop vocabulary and essential reading skills such as inference, retrieval and prediction. We will start the term by exploring a range of poetry before returning to fiction in Spring 2, where we will dive into the wonderful world of our year group author, Roald Dahl. Weekly spellings will continue, and pupils will be encouraged to apply these in the sentence writing challenge on their homework sheet. Please continue to support nightly reading at home – regular, high-quality reading is key to building stamina and strong comprehension skills. In maths, pupils will begin the term focusing on multiplication and division beyond known times tables. Rapid recall of the 3, 4 and 8 times tables remains a key expectation in Year 3. Later in Spring 2, learning will move onto money, length and perimeter. Weekly Mathletics or TT Rockstars homework will continue, and our Key Stage TT Rockstars competition is still running – we would love to see Year 3 continue the fantastic enthusiasm shown last term! In science, pupils will investigate rocks, learning about their properties, how fossils are formed and the composition of soil through hands-on testing and enquiry.
Our foundation subjects promise lots of exciting learning too. In history, pupils will travel back in time to explore the Romans, discovering how the Roman Empire grew and what life was like in Roman Britain. In geography, later in Spring 2, children will journey to Antarctica, learning about its extreme climate, unique wildlife and the challenges of human exploration, while developing important map skills. Creativity will be at the heart of learning in D&T and art. Pupils will experiment with different materials, techniques and processes in D&T, planning, making and evaluating their own designs. In Art, children will explore wearable technology, combining creativity with simple design thinking to produce imaginative and innovative pieces.
RE will begin by focusing on Islam, exploring how worship and festivals reflect what is important to Muslims, before moving onto Judaism in Spring 2, with a focus on family life and celebrations. During PSHE, pupils will focus on Dreams and Goals before exploring Healthy Me later in the term.
Weekly PE lessons will continue on Fridays (unless your child’s class has Forest School that half term). Please ensure your child comes to school wearing the correct PE kit or appropriate Forest School clothing each Friday.
We are looking forward to a fun-filled and productive term ahead and can’t wait to see the progress Year 3 will make!
You can find more details of the Dorridge Primary Curriculum on the Curriculum and Subject pages.