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 2023-2024 [PDF]
Download: Year 3 – Reading Spine [PDF]
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Year 3 Autumn Term 1 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 ‘Ancient Egypt’ and learning about some of the amazing discoveries Howard Carter made. In Geography we will be exploring Rivers, how they are made and looking at the River Indus. In science we will be studying plants and looking at different parts of a plant. This term in PE we will be focusing on fundamental skills and also continuing to improve our basketball skills.
Maths this term we are going to be focusing on place value and extending our addition and subtraction understanding. Within English, we will be completing a lot of work based around ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. Finally, during RE lessons we will be focusing on Homes and what makes a house a home as well as looking at promises we make within our faith.
Homework in Year 3
New homework is given each Monday. The homework relates to maths and English work that we are working on in school. We ask that this is given in to the class teacher every Friday 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 Thursday so children can be heard read and the books changed. Children will bring home a Read Write Inc book or a stage book every Monday.
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 classes will have outside PE on a Monday, please ensure that the children have kits in for this. 3KF will also have indoor PE on a Wednesday and 3NM and 3HF will have theirs on a Friday.
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.