Year 3 2025 - 2026
Welcome to the Spring Term!
In History we will be learning about 'The Romans and the impact they had on Britain'.
In Science we will be learning about
'Animals including Humans'.
In Geography we will be learning about countries and counties within the UK.
Year Three will be reading 'The Hodgheg' written by 'Dick King-Smith' who is the author of the term.
In RE we will be learning about 'Jesus' The Man who changed lives and what it means to be 'Called by God'.
Our Christian Value focus this half term is
Generosity
Autumn Term Two
Year Three Learned ...
In History we learned about
The Stone Age
Year Three have showcased their learning about
The Stone Age to their Parents and KS2.
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English we will be doing work based around the stories
'The Stone Age Boy' and 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth'.
Our authors of the term were Roald Dahl and Tom Fletcher.
Year Three have enjoyed reading 'Charlie and The Chocolate Factory' and 'The Christmasaurus' in Guided Reading
this half term.
We learned how to cook 'Healthy Chips' and 'Homemade Popcorn' in our Food Technology lessons.
Place Value and Addition and Subtraction and Times Tables in Maths this half term.
We enjoyed learning about Rocks and Soils in Science.
In RE we learned more about Harvest celebrations and Christmas.
In Design and Technology Year Three carried out experiments exploring different ways on how to build a strong bridge.
Food Technology; We will have had a special guest visitor in school to teach us how to cook Italian Pasta. A real chef, Franco from Franco's Wigan!
We have studied Van Gogh in Art and have created a creature using different media in the style of Van Gogh.
Have a look at the fabulous learning that Yaer Three did last year!
In the Summer Term, Year Three learned all about
The Romans in History.
In English, we will be reading the book
'I'll Take You To Mrs Cole' by Nigel Gray and Michael Foreman.
We will also be reading the book 'The Boy Who Grew Dragons'
by Andy Shepherd in our guided reading sessions.
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.
In RE we will be learning about 'Rules and Commandments'.
Our Christian Value that we will be focussing on at first in the Summer Term is 'Trust'
In Maths we will be carrying on our learning about
Fractions, Money, Shape, Time and Statistics.
Year Three love practising their Times Tables on
Times Table Rock Stars!
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In Science we will be learning about Light
and then our final topic this year will be about Plants.
In PE Year Three will be learning
Athletics, Tennis and Cricket skills.
In Computing we will be learning more about
'Online Safety
as well as having fun with 'SCRATCH'.
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SPRING TERM in Year Three
In Design and Technology / Food Tech, we have made healthy chips
and healthy fruity yoghurts.
In Art we studied 'Textiles' and learned about
the artist Faith Ringgold.
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!
Year Three had an exciting drama based 'Volcanoes' workshop.
In RE we learned about 'Jesus' The Man who changed lives.
History Curriculum Day.
We learned about the significant person 'John Logie Baird'
who invented the first television and how television
brought communities together.
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'
The whole school enjoyed World Book Day
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.
World Multi Faith Day: Christianity Around The World
Art: Painting & Drawing
DT: How to make a box out of fabric.
Art: Printing
Road Safety
Christmas Panto: Dick Whittington
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.
