Curriculum – Year 3
Year Group Overview
Download: Year 3 – Long Term Overview 2024-2025 [PDF]
Download: Year 3 – Autumn Overview 2024-2025 [PDF]
Download: Year 3 – Progression of Skills Overview 2024-2025 [PDF]
Download: Year 3 – Reading Spine [PDF]
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Year 3 Autumn Term 2 Overview 2024
In Year 3 we continue to develop our skills, knowledge and understanding across a wide range of new and exciting topics in the Autumn term.
Our new topic in history involves studying ‘Cradles of Civilisation’ and comparing how similar and how different were Ancient Egypt and Ancient Sumer. In Geography we will be finding out all about Mountains. In science we will be studying Rocks which will also link into our Geography topic. This term in PE we will be creating short dance phrases and also taking part in Football sessions in the Joseph Lappin Centre.
Maths this term we are going to be focusing on multiplication and division and we will be working a lot with our time tables. Extra practice at home with these will be fantastic. Within English, we will be looking at performing poems and information texts. Finally, during RE lessons we will be focusing on visitors as well as focusing on the nativity story in which we perform within church.
Homework in Year 3
New homework is given each Monday. The homework relates to maths and English work that we have done in school. We ask that this is given in to the class teacher every Monday so that it can be marked. We suggest that weekly homework should take no longer than 30 minutes. If you are struggling with homework, stop after this time and let your teacher know.
All children should read with someone at home for 15 minutes each night and Reading Records must be signed and dated. These should be sent into school every Monday so children can be heard read and the books changed. Some children will take home a Read Write Inc book and a levelled reading book.
Reading Books
If your child/ren still participates in Read Write Inc phonics sessions they will bring a book home each Friday for you to read with them during the week. This book will correspond with the work they have been doing in school and should be confident with this. If your child is not in RWI they will be bringing home a stage book each week for you to read.
We ask all parents sign the children’s reading records each time they have read at home including those times they have just read for pleasure.
Please can children bring their reading books and reading records into school each day.
PE
All 3 classes will have PE on Thursday each week with year 3 visiting the Joseph Lappin Centre for Football sessions.
3KN will also have PE on a Wednesday and 3HF and 3NM will have PE on a Friday too.
Please ensure that children have the correct PE kit in school on these days.
Water Bottles
It is important that every child has a water bottle in school. This is to maintain hydration levels and to stop unnecessary disruption in lesson due to having to go and get a drink.