Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
Welcome to our Year 3 page!
The team is Miss Yates, Mrs Cain, Miss Olive & Mrs Saeed.
Year 3 Summer 1
We can’t believe we are already in Summer Term in Y3! The children have worked so hard especially on handwriting, spellings and times tables this year. Please keep going with these – many children can speedily recall up to 12 x. To reach expected Y3 level, the children need to know – 3, 2, 5, 10, 4 and 8 times tables.
This half-term we are visiting the Emergency Services Museum on 15 May 2025 to explore the museum and find out about World War II in Sheffield. This is coming up fast and we will need your £ contribution and permission for your child to come as soon as possible. Thanks to all who have already done this! Our Global Theme this half-term is Social Justice and Equity.
So, what lies ahead this half-term?
Maths
To prepare for Y4, we continue to learn our times tables for quick recall. This half-term, we are focussing on reasoning and problem solving. We will be covering non-unit fractions – eg. finding 2/3 of an amount. We will complete our unit on measurement (converting litres to mls) and revise time. Please start telling the time with your child at home, using a digital clock and a clock with hands.
English
We will be completing a narrative based on the text The Night Bus Hero. The children will be working on a piece of writing which is comic, entertaining and fully develops a main character. We will be revisiting the use of speech marks and commas as part of this work.
Book Study
In Book study, we will be reading the House on the Edge of Magic by Amy Sparkes. We will learn more about character and tone and how a writer uses language to create an effect on a reader. The children will be making inferences and practising retrieving key information from this higher level read.
History and Geography
We will continue to learn about World War II using Geographical and Historical skills to learn about how and why and where the war spread across Europe. Why did Hitler invade the surrounding countries and what were the ‘geographical’ advantages of this. We will learn to identify most of the countries in Europe on our maps.
Home learning
For DT, please bring in as many shoe boxes as you can spare, as this half-term we are building castles.
Please keep on reading at home. Every little helps. Children can borrow a book from our class library and free readers are encouraged to do this so they always have a challenging read at home.
IXL, TT Rockstars and the free site, timestables.co.uk support maths learning at home. Please practise regularly – in the classroom, those who have practised at home are doing well!
Spelling tests are weekly on Fridays for C7 and on Thursdays for C8.
A lunchtime homework club is attended by children who do not complete their homework at home.
Welcome to Spring 2!
This half-term our investigatory question is How did World War II impact on life in our local area?
History and Geography 
In both History and Geography, we will be finding out about World War II and its impact on Sheffield and Darnall. Using real life artefacts and local accounts from World War II, we will explore life in Darnall during WWII. We will also examine maps to find out how land-use changed in Darnall and where the bombs fell. We will also study the historical and geographical reasons why our city and local area were blitzed.
English
In English, we will immerse ourselves in WWII, as we will be producing a piece of persuasive writing, using powerful descriptive vocabulary. The children will take part in an evacuation and an air raid experience as part of this.
Our paragraphs of writing will contain ambitious persuasive vocabulary, fronted adverbials of time and place and subordinating conjunctions (eg. On the night of the Blitz, we struggled to remain calm while the bombs were raining down). Some children will be working on narrated sentences to support their writing; while others will be working with more independence.
Book Study
In book study most children will be exploring comprehension, inference, retrieving information from a text and using a dictionary. We will study The Lion and the Unicorn by Shirley Hughes and the Day the War Came by Nicola Davies.
Maths
Maths will see us completing a unit on measure and perimeter, fractions and mass and capacity. All children will keep practising their 8 and 4 times tables (Year 3 level) and will revise their 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables (Year 2 and 1 level). Please complete maths homework each week.
This is important as much of the problem solving requires that the children know these times tables.
Science
In Science we will be learning about plants; how the parts function; how water is transported in a plant; investigating how seeds disperse and what makes a seed germinate fastest as well as the impact of different fertilisers.
PE
PE is athletics and gymnastics. Please ensure that the correct PE Uniform is worn. Black or dark blue shorts or jogging bottoms, trainers and a white T-shirt
Music
In music lessons, we will be learning about Indian Traditional music including, traditional instruments, playing a rag and a tal, and composing our own pieces of music.
RE
In RE, we will be investigating who has the authority to decide the consequences of wrongdoing; exploring beliefs of how wrongdoing affects the soul and ways in which some people seek forgiveness for wrongdoing.
Art
In Art, we will be making close observational drawings of plants and flowers. We will create compositions where we explore different shading, textures and tones as part of our techniques.
