Year 3 2025
Welcome to Year 3
Mrs Eddleston and Mrs Parkhouse make up our Year 3 Team.
Spring 2
Maths
In Maths we will be securing our mental calculations for adding 2-digit and 3-digit numbers using the partitioning strategy. We shall be subtracting 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by partitioning and finding the difference. Later in the term we will be looking at 2, 4 and 8 times tables and the relationships between them.
As always, times tables will be vital, using TT Rockstars and other such resources to practice times tables is always encouraged at home.
English
Our key text in English will be ‘Oliver Twist’, a retold version of the classic. Children will explore the story structure, characters, events and plot before planning and writing their own historical narrative set in this period. There will be a focus on accurate tense, expanded noun phrases, conjunctions, handwriting and accurate punctuation. Children will also be encouraged to use higher level vocabulary. We will continue to apply the writing skills and grammatical elements that the children learnt last term and will learn to write in paragraphs, use direct speech and subordination in sentences.
Support with reading at home is extremely appreciated and strongly encouraged. We would advise that the children read three times a week at home with an adult. This term they should particularly focus on inference and understanding meaning from the text.
Theme
This half term we will be looking back in time to Victorian England. We will be learning about Queen Victoria, the workhouses and Quarry Bank Mill. Children will compare life for children then and now and will gain an understanding of how events from this era have impacted on life today. We will also be developing our understanding of chronology by ordering events on a timeline. We are looking forward to our trip to Quarry Bank Mill on Tuesday 10th March!
Science
Our topic for this half term is Light and Shadows. We will be:
Recalling examples of light sources, objects that do not give out light and that darkness is the absence of light.
Describing what happens when light reflects, give examples of reflective surfaces or materials and describing factors that may affect the quality of a reflected image.
Describing how shadows form and identifying patterns between groups of materials and the shadows produced.
Recalling factors that affect the way a shadow appears, including what causes shadows to change throughout the day and factors that change the size of a shadow.
Spring 1
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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