Year 3 2024 - 2025
Miss Breen
Summer Term 2025
What a fantastic year we have had together so far in Year 3! Well done for all of your hard work! For our final term together we have lots of exciting learning opportunities planned including a Rainforest Animals Workshop and Swimming. This page will provide you with the information you need about what your child is currently learning in school.
English
In English, we will be using 'Big Blue Whale' by Nicola Davies to support our understanding of non-fiction text and act as a basis for us to explore persuasive and informative writing. We will also be completing a unit on poetry, before studying the story of our end of year Shakespeare production in depth.
Our class novels for this term are Max and the Millions by Ross Montgomery and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
Maths
In Maths, we will continue to work on our arithmetic skills and four operations. This term we will be focusing our learning on fractions, money, time, properties of shape and statistics - including problem-solving and investigative maths.
RE
Our RE unit will be centred around To The Ends of the Earth and after the half-term, Encounter and Dialogue. This half-term we will be increasing our understanding of prayer, Pentecost and how Jesus spent his days on Earth after his resurrection. Next half-term, we will be discussing how Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples and we will be be looking at other religions and making simple connections between them.
Topic
Our topics for Summer Term are ‘Land Use’ and 'Rainforests'. This half-term we will be identifying different settlements and discussing how land is used in different ways. We will be completing some fieldwork of our local area, Little Sutton, to see how land is used around us. Next half-term, we will be focusing on rainforests, specifically looking at the different layers in the rainforest, the habitats of the animals and where rainforests are found around our world.
Science
Our science topic for this term is 'Plants'. During this topic we will focus on the purpose of different parts of the plant, what plants need in order to survive and how seeds disperse to re-start the life cycle. We will also explore the honey-making process when discussing how some animals act as pollinators in our world.
Homework in Year 3
At home, there are many different ways in which you can support your child with their learning. Daily reading continues to be an expectation for all children and this should be logged in their school planner each time. Children are also expected to have regular access to apps such as TTRS and EdShed to support their times tables and spelling.
All homework, including personalised spellings, will be set on a Friday. Children will write their spellings in their school planner and these will also be uploaded onto Google Classroom. Children will have a week of learning their spellings both in school and at home before a spelling test the following Friday. Homework pertinent to learning which has taken place in class that week will also be available on Google Classroom.
PE Days
Our PE days this term are Wednesday and Friday, so please come to school dressed in your PE kit on these days. On Wednesdays we will be going swimming. Children will need to bring their swimming bags into school on these days.
Forest School
Unless otherwise stated, our final Year 3 Forest School date for this year is as follows:
Thursday 12th June
Please ensure that your child comes to school on these days dressed accordingly to the weather forecast and in old clothes which you don’t mind getting dirty. During the winter months, it will be imperative that the children are wrapped up with multiple layers. During the summer months, it is vital that children have sun hats/sun cream and are appropriately protected from the sun.