Year 3 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Year 3 Autumn 1 Term! 2025-2026  ☺️

The teachers in Year 3 are Miss Wakefield (3W) and Miss Bednarska (3B). The teaching assistants are Miss Yates and Mrs Grindrod. We are looking forward to welcoming you back to school after the holidays and hope you are excited for all you will learn in Year 3 this term!

What will we be learning this half-term?

English

Over the first three weeks, Year 3 children will focus on grammar lessons to prepare them for future learning. Following this, they will explore The Stone Age Boy and use it as inspiration to create effective sentences for their own narrative writing. These lessons will help develop their writing skills, sentence structure, and creativity as they build engaging stories.

Maths

We will begin by deepening their understanding of place value and working confidently with numbers up to 1,000. They will then progress to addition and subtraction, using the column method to solve problems accurately. These lessons will help develop their fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving skills in preparation for more complex mathematical challenges.

Reading

This half term, children will explore Stig of the Dump to develop their reading comprehension skills. They will learn to make predictions, summarise events, and answer questions about the text, building their understanding of characters, settings, and key themes. These lessons will help strengthen their reading fluency, inference skills, and enjoyment of literature.

Science

Children will explore forces and magnets, learning how objects move and interact. They will investigate pushing and pulling forces, the effects of friction, and how magnets attract or repel different materials. These lessons will help pupils develop their scientific enquiry skills through hands-on experiments and observations.

Geography

We will learn why climate is important and explore local temperate rainforests in the UK. Children will discover how different climates, including polar, hot/dry, and hot/wet regions, shape our world, and develop an understanding of weather, climate, and biomes, including their own local area.

Art

A Closer Look at the Human Eye:
In this unit, Year 3 children will explore the human eye through detailed observational drawing. They will focus on developing realism by experimenting with tone and shading, learning to capture shape, depth, and texture. This creative work will help students enhance their attention to detail and build confidence in their drawing skills while producing striking, lifelike images.

Spanish

Children will learn how to greet others in Spanish and introduce themselves politely. They will practise saying simple phrases, asking and answering questions, and using basic conversational language. These lessons will help pupils develop confidence in speaking and listening in a new language.

Reading at Home

Children will be given a reading book to take home. Books should be returned once read, with a comment in the Reading Record. We ask that children read to an adult at least three times a week. Reading records will be checked weekly.

P.E.

P.E. lessons take place on Tuesdays for 3W and 3B.  Please send your child to school in their P.E. kit on these days. The P.E. kit should include a white top, black trousers/shorts/leggings, and appropriate trainers.

Chess

Year 3 children are continuing their Chess lessons. This term, it’s now 3W’s turn to take part in weekly sessions, building strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.

Homework

Children are encouraged to follow our Year 3 homework timetable, supporting their learning across the curriculum. Thank you for your ongoing support at home.

*Knowledge Organiser work will be a short quiz set on Google Classroom, where the children can use their Knowledge Organiser to answer questions. We will ask the children the same or similar questions in class to check that they have been practising.

Spellings

Children will be set spellings each week. These will be set every Monday and must be practised during the week, ready for our spelling test on Friday. Children can also practise their spellings on our Spelling Shed app - Please see google classroom for login instructions.

Times tables

By the end of Year 3, children should be able to recall their 3. 4 and 8 times tables confidently. We will practise regularly in school but it is crucial that children are practising their times tables at home daily for rapid recall. To support them with this, please make sure your child is regularly practising on Times Table Rockstars.

Best Wishes, 

Miss Wakefield & Miss Bednarska

If you have any questions or need any help or support, please come and speak to us at the end of the day or email at the following class email addresses.

Miss Wakefield – 3W

Miss Bednarska – 3B

3b@ashburymeadow.manchester.sch.uk