Year 3 2024 - 2025

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Welcome to the Summer Term! 

 

 

This Summer Term, Year Three will be carrying on learning all about

The Romans in History.

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In English, we will be reading the book

'I'll Take You To Mrs Cole' by Nigel Gray and Michael Foreman.

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We will also be reading the book 'The Boy Who Grew Dragons'

by Andy Shepherd in our guided reading sessions.

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We will be doing lots of reading comprehension about the book.

 

In Geography, we will learning more facts about The United Kingdom, its countries, counties and other facts.

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In RE we will be learning about 'Rules and Commandments'.

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Our Christian Value that we will be focussing on at first in the Summer Term is 'Compassion'.

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In Maths we will be carrying on our learning about

Fractions, Money, Shape, Time and Statistics.

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Year Three love practising their Times Tables on

Times Table Rock Stars!

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In Science we will be learning about Light

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and then our final topic this year will be about Plants.

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In PE Year Three will be learning

Athletics, Tennis and Cricket skills.

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In Computing we will be learning more about

'Online Safety

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as well as having fun with 'SCRATCH'.

Dates this term:

PFA Rainbow Raffle Day - Friday 2nd May

VE Day Learning - Thursday 8th May

VE Day Practical  Experience and Celebration Day - Friday 16th May

Numeracy Day - Friday 6th June

25 things to Spot PFA Day - Friday 20th June

Moving Up to Meet New Teacher Morning - Wednesday 16th July

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SPRING TERM in Year three

In Design and Technology / Food Tech, we have made healthy chips

and healthy fruity yoghurts.

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In Art we studied 'Textiles' and learned about

the artist Faith Ringgold.

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In Science we have learned a lot about about 'Rocks and Soils'

It's much more interesting than you'd expect! The children had lots of fun experimenting with rocks, they made edible soil and made their own fossils too!

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Year Three had an exciting drama based 'Volcanoes' workshop.

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In RE we learned about 'Jesus' The Man who changed lives.

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 History Curriculum Day.

We learned about the significant person 'John Logie Baird'

who invented the first television and how television

brought communities together.

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We were visited by Harold the Giraffe and Sophie from the

Life Education Caravan

 

Year Three have led a Class Assembly Worship

about the Christian Value 'Love'

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The whole school enjoyed World Book Day

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Year Three took part in a Science Curriculum Day

where they enjoyed a vist from a science expert teaching them about

Light and Sound.

Year Three also learned about Rocks and Fossils.

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AUTUMN TERM in Year Three

PSHE Days doing activities and drama and discussions.

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World Multi Faith Day: Christianity Around The World

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Art: Painting & Drawing

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DT: How to make a box out of fabric.

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Art: Printing

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Road Safety

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Christmas Panto: Dick Whittington

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To find a full overview of the topics covered in Year 3, download the Year 3 Long Term Plans in the Files to Download section at the bottom of this page. 

Files to Download

St Thomas's C.E. Primary School
Hodnet Drive,
Ashton in Makerfield,
Wigan WN4 8PQ
Main Contact: Miss Suzanne Burgess
SEN Contact: Mrs Fairclough