Welcome to Year 3!
Year 3 Curriculum Information
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September 2025
Welcome to Year 3.
We are about to embark on wonderful year, and we have lots of fun learning planned. The half-termly forecast gives you more detail about the learning which will take place within our topic which this term is based around The Stone Age.
Here are our class books that we will be using for shared reading and our English work this term:
PE
PE is on a Wednesday – Children can come into school in their PE kits. Appropriate school PE kit must be worn and labelled. As winter draws near, the weather will begin to turn cold and wet, so please ensure your child has jogging bottoms, jumpers, gloves and light waterproof jackets, as learning will take place outside as much as possible.
Homework
Reading
The children are constantly engaged with reading throughout our curriculum, in our daily English lessons as well as 4 times a week in whole class shared reading sessions. However, to really help them progress and to support their enjoyment of reading, they should be reading at home most nights. To support your child’s progress, please do record any comments in their Reading Record, which will accompany their reading books. Your observations are invaluable in helping us track their development and encourage their love for reading! We know it is hard to fit everything in, but reading offers valuable models for sentence structure, fuels their imagination, improves their knowledge of the world and also offers them some much-needed calm time.
Maths
Numbots and Times tables are always vital to improve the children's progress in maths, so please find 5 minutes for your child to play on Numbots and/or TTRS.
Spellings
Spellings will be shared at the start of each week via Dojo and will include tricky words as well as words with the ‘spelling patterns’ we are learning that week. We will be learning these in class, including using them to support our handwriting practice. There will be no formal test, but it is vital that you take some time to look at these at home as we will recap them on a Friday. Be creative with learning – writing out in chalk, repeating in the car, using pens in the baths – any way to engage them. Always check your child understands the meaning of their spellings as this will help to broaden their vocabulary.
It has been a wonderful start so far, and we hope to make it an excellent year! Our priority is for all children to be happy and safe in school in order for them to flourish, so if you have any worries or concerns, please do come and see us at drop off or pick-up or alternatively, contact us via dojo or the school office.
Year 3 Extra Information
Reading at home questions booklet
Useful Links
Maths Chase
A fun website for learning times tables
Oxford Owl
Entirely free website with lots of fun games and activities for you and your child - there is also a useful 'At School' section explaining the techniques used to teach reading within school
Letter Join