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This week's Learning in Year 3 at a glance

Year 3

 

Learning Link: Roaring Rivers and  Groovy Greeks

As your children enter the Summer term, we begin with learning about rivers, locally and globally.  

After half term we go back in time to Ancient Greece to learn all about daily life at that time, beginning of the Olympics, myths and legends and Gods and Goddesses.  

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: 8th June 2026

Week B

Monday: Please can your child bring in a named glue stick. Spellings - old ones tested and new ones given out.

Tuesday: Sports day 9:00-10:30 please come in PE kit. Please see the email for further details. Maths and English homework marked and handed out.

Wednesday: PE for Year 3 - please come in PE kit.

Thursday: PE for 3D- come in PE Kit.

Looking further ahead:

  • Friday 19th June - INSET Day – no school for the children
  • Monday 22nd June – SPACE DAY & Chertsey Museum in school
  • Tuesday 30th June - First Holy Communion Mass in school
  • Wednesday 1st July - Transition Day and Whole School Open Afternoon
  • Friday 10th July - End of year reports home and Year 3 sleepover in school
  • Wednesday 15th July - Family Picnic after school
  • Friday 17th July - End of term – 2pm

Reminders:

Please ensure your child has a named glue stick.

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

Homework

Maths and English homework will be set on a Tuesday and due on the following Tuesday. Please can children complete Summer Term Workout 8 in their CGP Maths and English books - due on Tuesday 16th June.

TTRockstars please encourage your children to practise their times tables. There is a new battle this week between classes! Battle it out Year 3 but we could also win the trophy against the whole school! Your logins are found in the front of your child’s homework diary under passwords.

Spellings set on Monday 8th June and due on the following Monday 15th June.  

Reading for Pleasure

London’s River Tales for Children by Anne Johnson and Sef Townsend

RE

Dialogue and Encounter

The children will encounter the story of the Last Supper and to know that for Christians, the Eucharist is linked to Passover.

English

Writing linked to Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans

Children will spend time utilising the features of character descriptions and producing the most effective descriptions they can.

Master Readers: Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans

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:

floundering, haughtily, absurd, tirade, stupor

SPAG

Spelling

Miss Duncan and Miss Moore: To spell words with irregular spelling pattens.

Mrs May: To spell words that are homophones or near homophones.

Grammar

Focus on present tense.

Maths

Angles

Children will be beginning to learn about right, acute and obtuse angles.

Science

Forces and Magnets

Children will be exploring how different objects move on different surfaces.   

DT

Greek Food and Culture

Children will be beginning to investigate celebrations, culture and national cuisine of Greece.

Computing

Branching databases

Children will creating their own branching database using the website J2Data.  

History

Ancient Greeks

The children will be learning who are the ancient Greeks and when did they live.

French

To follow a familiar story in French.

Music

We will use our understanding of pitch (high and low) and our previous learning on dot notation to play some of the two-pitch songs we learned earlier this year.

PE

Athletics

Applying different take-off techniques when jumping. Throwing different equipment. Recording distances and times.

Rounders

Understand how the rounders bases work and begin to use these rules to score points and manage the game. Understand the role of the batter and backstop. Choose when to use overarm and underarm skills effectively. Field with accuracy to limit a batter’s score.

Learning for Life

The children will be finishing their reflections on how to keep their bodies healthy.