Year 3 staff
Mrs Brand teaches on a Monday and Tuesday
Mrs Chantrey teaches on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Mrs. Archbold and Miss Locke are our teaching assistants
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Global Themes
Our curriculum
We have planned a curriculum based on six Global Themes that is creative, fun and focused on knowledge, skills and understanding, which is taught sequentially, building on prior knowledge.
The Global Themes are:
Term 1 - Identity and Diversity
Term 2 - Peace and Conflict
Term 3 - Saving Our Environment
Term 4 - Social Justice
Term 5 - Our World and Beyond
Term 6 - Our Heritage
Take a look at our curriculum plan to see our topics and when we will be learning about them
PE
Our PE days this term are Monday and Friday. Please make sure your child has labelled PE kits in school. If your child has pierced ears they will need to take earrings out on PE days.
English
In Year 3, our learning is based around the following books
- Ice Trap - Shackleton's Incredible Expedition
- My Best Friend the Suffragette
- Old Enough to Save the Planet
- Tail-End Charlie
- Firework Maker's Daughter
- The Great Kapok Tree
- War Horse
- Fantastic Mr Fox
Children will also need to learn how to spell some of the words from the Year 3 and 4 Common Exception Words
They will practise these daily using their spelling zappers!
Maths
Take a look at our knowledge organisers to see what we will be learning in Year 3
Your child has a login for Time Tables Rockstars. These are stuck inside their reading records so they don't forget!
In Year 3, we learn the 4x, 8x, 3x, 6x and 12x tables. We revise the 2x, 5x and 10x tables which we learnt in Year 2.
Children should practise for 10 minutes every day in 'The Garage'!
In Year 3, we will cover the following topics in Science:
Animals including humans: skeletons, muscles and nutrition
Click on the links above to see a knowledge organiser for each topic.
History
Our History topics are:
Ernest Shackleton
The Suffragettes
World War 2
Computing
We use Purple Mash to learn about computing. Take a look at our knowledge organisers to see what we will be learning.
Geography
Our Geography topics are:
Mountains
Counties and Cities in the UK
World Countries linking to World War 2
French
In Year 3 we start learning French.
Have a look at our topics
Your child has log in details to
Here they can practise their French through singing and playing games!