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Year 3 2025
Welcome to Year 3
Mrs Eddleston and Mrs Parkhouse make up our Year 3 Team.
Spring Term
Maths
In Maths we will be exploring measurement and shape. We will be covering the following:
English
Our key text in English is ‘Our Tower’, by the children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho. The children will explore the story structure, characters, events, and plot before planning and writing their own adventure narrative. There will be a focus on capital letters for proper nouns, complex sentences, and conjunctions. The children will also be encouraged to use higher-level vocabulary. In reading, we will explore the text ‘What’s it like to be a bird’. The children will continue to develop their inference and retrieval skills. They will predict and ask questions to improve their understanding of the text. They will also draw out the main ideas from a key paragraph. Theme This term our Geography topic focuses on cities. We will be exploring the difference between villages, towns, and cities. Finding out where the major cities in the UK are located and investigating the human features of a city. We will be looking closely at the cities of Manchester and Liverpool as they are the closest cities to our location. Science Our science topic for this half term is Rocks and Soils. We will be:
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Autumn Term
Maths
In maths, we will be exploring numbers to 1,000. Within this unit we will explore the fact that ten tens are equivalent to one hundred as well as looking at multiples of ten in a range of three digit numbers. We will deepen our understanding of the value of three digit numbers through partitioning and reason about the location of any three digit number in the linear system. We will also explore numbers to 100 including calculating complements to 100 and dividing 100 into equal parts.
English
Our key text will be ‘Red and the City’ by Marie Voigt. We will focus on expanded noun phrases, coordinating conjunctions and using inverted commas to punctuate speech. The children will write their own version of the story over the half term. We will also look at non-chronological reports towards the end of the half term.
Reading
Children will be read with in school on a regular basis. We really encourage reading at home at least three times a week if possible. If you could update reading records when you read with them at home, that would be great!
Theme
We will begin our theme lessons with PSHE and we will be thinking about our aspirations for both this year and the future.
Our geography theme this half term is focused on counties in the North West of England. Within this theme we will conduct some map work exploring where the counties are. We will also learn some of the key physical and human features of the different counties. Fieldwork will be a part of this topic and we will visit Godley Reservoir during the half term to enrich our geographical enquiry skills.
Science
In our science lessons, the children will be learning about movement and nutrition. We will be finding out about the skeleton, the bones in our body, muscles and movement, nutrient groups and a balanced diet.
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