Year 3

Learning Link: Rock Across the Ages

As your children enter Key Stage 2, we step right back in time to the Stone Age.  In English, work will start in September with our text ‘The Stolen Spear’. We will make links in computing, art and design that will really bring this topic to life.  It will culminate in a celebration of our work. We will continue to develop our skills in computing and create simple algorithms and in Science we peer into the topic of light. In RE, our rich curriculum allows us to explore the topics of Covenant and Creation. Our foundational topics allow the cross curricular learning to come to life through The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age and lead us into Mountains.

St Dominic:

Miss Duncan

St Martha:

Miss Moore

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: 7^th September 2026

Week B

Tuesday: Homework books for Maths and English handed out.

Wednesday: PE for Year 3 – please come to school wearing PE kit. Whole school Mass 2pm

Friday: New spellings will be given to the children.

Reminders:

We will be spot checking children’s uniforms; please make sure they are named as well as water bottles and snack boxes.

Please can each child bring in a named glue stick.

Looking further ahead:

Wednesday 16th September - Curriculum Evening.

Monday 12^th October trip to Butser Ancient Farm.

PE for Year 3 will be every Wednesday and on Mondays in Week A.

Homework

Maths and English homework will be set on a Tuesday and due the following Tuesday. Please can children complete Autumn Term Workout 1 in their CGP Maths and English books. Set on Tuesday 8^th September and due the following Tuesday 15^th September.

Spellings set on Friday 11th September and due for the following Friday 18th September. 

Each week, the children will be set a list of spellings to learn for homework. Sometimes the spellings will follow a pattern/rule and sometimes they will be statutory words that do not follow a set rule. 

We ask that children practice the words at home at least 3 times during the week (in this book) and then write at least 5 sentences using the spellings. Each sentence should contain at least one of the spelling words. 

These spellings will be tested each week in a list and one dictation sentence. 

Reading for Pleasure

The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl

RE

Creation and Covenant

The children will learn that the Church teaching us that Go is the Creator of the Universe who made everything out of free and unselfish love.

English

Writing linked to The Stolen Spear by Saviour Pirotta

Children will

Master Readers: The Stolen Spear by Saviour Pirotta

Monday:  Whole class reading of text

Tuesday: Book Club

Wednesday: Modelled comprehension

Thursday: Independent comprehension and review

Friday:  Edit and review and read

Focus vocabulary this week:

hauling, tendrils, obediently, indebted

SPAG

Spelling

Miss Duncan and Miss Moore: To spell words where ‘ou’ makes an /ow/ sound.

Mrs Castelino: To spell words where ‘dge’ makes a /j/ sound.

Grammar

Maths

Place value

Children will be representing and partitioning numbers up to 1,000.

Science

Light

Children will be understanding that light is reflected differently from different surfaces.    

Art

Neolithic cave art

N/A due to School Mass.  

Computing

Children will be having an online safety lesson about having ‘device-free moments.’

History

Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age

The children will be understanding who were hunter gathers and looking at their lifestyle.

French

Music

We will be introduced to Samba music and will use it to practice our skills in finding the pulse and recognising the first beat of the bar.

PE

Fundamentals

Balancing, running, jumping, hopping and skipping. Changing direction with balance and control. How does the body move at different speeds? How to speed up and slow down.

Netball

Make use of all pass types: Chest, overarm and bounce. Begin to understand court positions and some rules.

Football

Control the ball with feet and begin to dribble. Begin to use space and mark opposition players.

Learning for Life

Children will be learning about where in our world we find rules and why they are important.