Year 3 2025 - 2026
Miss Breen
Welcome to Year Three!
Year 3 will be taught by Mrs Pearce and supported by both Miss Bridgeman and Mrs Halpin.
We are really excited about this year's curriculum and have lots of engaging and interesting units of work throughout the year. During Autumn term, our historical learning will focus on changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age and we will increase our understanding of how humans evolved from hunters to gatherers. We will visit Beeston Castle during the Autumn term to take part in a prehistoric settlers workshop and experience their purpose-built roundhouse.
To begin Spring term, our learning will focus on how land is used in the UK. We will conduct some fieldwork around Little Sutton in the form of a local walk to identify the different types of land use in our local area. In Spring term, we will explore the importance of rainforests, including their location within our world.
In the Summer term, our focus will be on British history – understanding who the Romans were and what we have learnt from them. We will visit the DEVA Museum in Chester to learn about life in Chester over 2,000 years ago and become Roman legionaries.
You can find out more about our Year 3 curriculum this year on our Curriculum Map which is attached below.
During Autumn term, PE will be taught on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please make sure that your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days.
Children in Year 3 will also be going swimming during the Summer Term.
Our Forest School dates for this year will be:
Thursday 2nd October 2025
Thursday 4th December 2025
Thursday 12th February 2026
Thursday 23rd April 2026
Thursday 25th June 2026
It’s important to ensure your child comes to school dressed appropriately on these dates. For more information about Forest school, click here.
Please bring your reading diaries to school every day. We love listening to the children discussing their reading with us and aim to read with every child in class over the course of the week. Our class novels this year will be Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, A Night at the Frost Fair by Emma Carroll, Cool by Michael Morpurgo and Owen and the Soldier by Lisa Thompson.
Weekly homework will be set on Google Classroom each Friday, along with your child’s 10 spellings to learn for that week. We encourage at least 15 minutes of TimesTables RockStars each day.
We are really looking forward to working with your children this year and we thank you in advance for your support!