This week's Learning in Year 3 at a glance
Year 3
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Learning Link: Roaring Rivers and Groovy GreeksAs 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. |
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St Dominic: Miss Duncan St Martha: Miss Moore |
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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: 15th June 2026 Week A Monday: Please can your child bring in a named glue stick. Spellings - old ones tested and new ones given out. Tuesday: Maths and English homework marked and handed out. Wednesday: PE for Year 3 - please come in PE kit. Thursday: PE for 3M- come in PE Kit. Friday: INSET day- no school for the children 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. |
Homework |
Maths and English homework will be set on a Tuesday and due on the following Tuesday. Please can children complete Summer Term Workout 9 in their CGP Maths and English books - due on Tuesday 23rd 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 15th June and due on the following Monday 22nd 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 learning about horizontal and vertical, parallel and perpendicular and drawing 2D shapes. |
Science |
Forces and Magnets Children will be investigating how magnetic forces work. |
DT |
Greek Food and Culture Children will be tasting Greek foods and planning their salad. |
Computing |
Branching databases Children will creating their own pictogram. |
History |
Ancient Greeks The children will be learning who are the ancient Greeks and when did they live. |
French |
To learn the words for food in the story of le chien très gourmand. |
Music |
We will continue to learn to read the stave by adding the note C to our recorder playing. |
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 |
N/A due to INSET day. |