This week's Learning in Year 3 at a glance!
Year 3Learning 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 Stone Age Boy.’ 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. |
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St Dominic: Miss Duncan: missduncan@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk St Martha: Miss Moore: missmoore@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk |
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Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available |
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Year Group reminders |
Week Commencing: 8th December 2025 Week B Monday: New spellings handed out. Old words tested. Yellow spelling book in school. For our Advent Service on Thursday 11th December, we would like the children to wear smart clothing which could include festive colours (green and red) where possible. If your child has an acting role, please could they bring in plain, neutral coloured clothing to be worn underneath their costume. For girls it could be white shirt and leggings, for boys it could be a white shirt and shorts. Please could the clothes be brought in by Monday the 8th December in a named plastic bag. Tuesday: Maths and English homework handed out and marked. Wednesday: Year 3 PE - please come in PE kit. 3D ONLY: For PE lessons until Christmas, the children will be doing football on the field. Please could you provide your children with either football boots or old trainers and a named plastic bag to keep the shoes in. Thursday: PE for 3D - please come in PE kit. Advent Service 2:30pm. Friday: Celebration worship. Cold weather: Please can you send children into school with gloves and hats to wear during break, lunch and PE Lessons please. Base layers for sports are appropriate on PE days and ideally would be Navy blue in colour. School tracksuit trousers are to be worn in the winter to replace PE shorts. Looking further ahead:
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. |
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Homework |
Maths and English homework will be set on a Tuesday and due on the following Tuesday. Please can children complete Spring Term Workout 1 in their CGP Maths and English books - due on Tuesday 16th December. 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! Spellings set on Monday 8th December and due on the following Monday 15th December. |
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Reading for Pleasure |
Little Glow by Katie Sahota |
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RE |
Prophecy and Promise The children will know that Joseph listened to the angel and opened his heart to the Holy Spirit. |
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English |
Writing linked to Ice Palace by Robert Swindells In our learning this week, the children will be demonstrating their understanding of our book to predict the ending and then create their own alternative ending to the Ice Palace. Master Readers: Ice Palace by Robert Swindells 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: mercy, clenched, rigid, stifling, leer |
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SPAG |
Spelling Miss Duncan and Miss Moore: To spell words with the ‘ai’ digraph. Mrs May: To spell words where ‘y’ makes an /igh/ sound. Grammar Focus on using our key grammar skills when writing a story. |
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Maths |
Multiplication and Division Children will be learning to multiply by 4 and 8. |
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Science |
Rocks Children will understand how and why different rocks are used for different purposes in the environment. |
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DT |
Shell Structures We will be making our own packaging! |
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Computing |
Desktop Publishing Children will be considering the benefits of desktop publishing. |
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Geography |
Mountains N/A due to Advent Service. |
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French |
To say, read and write the colours in French |
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Music |
We will sing our Advent Service songs, using this practise to learn about performance skills in breathing and diction. |
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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. |
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Learning for Life |
We don’t have to be the same We will be thinking about how to have a happy lifestyle. |