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: 19^th October 2026

Week B

Monday: Online parents evening after school.

Tuesday: Autumn Term Workout 6 homework due.

Wednesday: PE for Year 3 – please come to school wearing PE kit. In person parents evening after school.

Thursday: Additional PE for year 3- please come to school wearing PE kit. Yellow spellings books due in school for spelling test. New spellings will be given to the children

Friday: Half-term begins.

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:

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 7 in their CGP Maths and English books. Set on Tuesday 20^th October and due after half term.

Spellings set on Thursday 22^nd October and due after half term.

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

Children will be learning that we can give thanks for the blessing of Creation an this can include spending time in prayer.

English

Writing linked to The Stolen Spear by Saviour Pirotta

Children will be learning how to edit their pieces of work, through looking at their success criteria and writing to suit the purpose.

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:

eager, offering, credit, fondness

SPAG

Spelling

Miss Duncan and Miss Moore: spell words with the prefix ‘re-’.

Mrs Castelino: To spell words where ‘wr’ makes a /r/ sound at the beginning of words.

Grammar

Understanding how we effectively use direct speech and key rules surrounding implementation.

Maths

Addition and Subtraction

Children will work on adding and subtracting numbers across tens and hundreds.  

Science

Light

Children will be bringing together their knowledge on light and shadows.

Art

Neolithic cave art

Children will be collaborating on a final piece of cave art!

Computing

Connecting Computers

Children will be designing their own digital device.  

History

Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age

N/A due to day off.

French

To say, read and write the numbers 1-10.

Music

We will listen to improvised music and analyse the key features. We will have a go at improvising a rhythm within a particular beat pattern.

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

We will be learning all about Black History Month and how we can use our voices for the better.