Key Themes across the Year
✨ Our Year of Learning – Class 3 ✨
English 📚
Autumn: We’ll kick off with punctuation power, instruction writing (“How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth”), and playful weather poems. Then we’ll dive into the Stone Age with stories and persuasive letters.
Spring: Get ready for adventures! We’ll write a quest story (The Firework Maker’s Daughter), battle monsters with The Iron Man, and explore the magic of explanation texts.
Summer: Ancient Egypt inspires our portal stories, myths, and diary recounts – from tombs to gods and adventures in the desert!
Maths ➕✖️➗
Autumn: Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Spring: Fractions, mass, capacity, and money.
Summer: Time, shape, statistics, and wrapping it all up with consolidation.
Religious Education ✝️
Autumn: We’ll reflect on family and belonging, then prepare for Advent.
Spring: Exploring journeys, sharing in the Eucharist, and Lent/Easter.
Summer: Pentecost, reconciliation, and special places – plus learning about Hinduism.
Science 🔬
Autumn: Rocks, soils, and animals including humans.
Spring: Forces, magnets, and light.
Summer: The wonderful world of plants.
Computing 💻
Autumn: Connecting computers and animation.
Spring: Sounds, databases, and publishing.
Summer: Programming with events and actions.
History 🏺
Autumn and Spring: Stone Age to Iron Age.
Summer: Ancient Egyptians.
Geography 🌍
Autumn: The UK.
Spring: The busy world of bees.
Summer: Land use around us.
Art 🎨
Autumn: Growing artists and prehistoric painting.
Spring: Abstract shapes and space.
Summer: Egyptian-inspired creations.
Design & Technology 🛠️
Autumn: Eating seasonally.
Spring: Building castles.
Summer: Egyptian collars.
Music 🎶
Autumn: Ballads and singing skills.
Spring: Pentatonic melodies, jazz, and Easter performance.
Summer: Traditional instruments and improvisation.
P.E. 🏃♂️⚽
Each term brings something new – from swimming, gymnastics, and hockey to netball, athletics, cricket, and rounders.
R.S.E ❤️
Themes across the year include understanding faith, emotional well-being, relationships, and life online.
French 🇫🇷
From greetings and colours to numbers, birthdays, families, and farm animals – we’ll build up our French skills step by step.
English Books
