Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
Welcome to our Year 3 page!
The team is Miss Yates, Mrs Cain, Miss Olive, Mrs Hussain & 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 Eden Camp on 21st April to explore the museum and find out about World War II in the UK. 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.
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 fractions – eg. finding 2/3 of an amount. We will also work on measurement. Please start telling the time with your child at home, using a digital clock and a clock with hands.
English
In English we will continue to read The Last Bear, examining the theme of climate change and the main character, April’s determination to help the polar bear. Following the story the children will be writing a narrative, stormy sea adventure.
Children will develop their story-telling skills and vocabulary and there will be more writing delivered through transcription. There will be a focus on the use of speech marks, paragraphing and writing for effect through including ambitious descriptive vocabulary and a range of sentence types and styles. Year 3 will begin to consider the readers’ experience as they write and learn to edit written work with increasing independence. We will continue to work on creating neat joined up handwriting using the Martin Harvey handwriting scheme.
Book Study
In Book Study, we will be reading Hannah Gold’s the Last Bear. This is a charming and insightful story about a little girl’s relationship with her lonely, scientist father, a bear and a snowy Antarctic landscape altered forever by climate change. We will continue with our fluency lessons by echo reading and our reader’s theatre.
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. We will also recap the sea features learned in Spring 1. 
RE
In RE we will be looking at the symbolism of water in religions
PE
PE is on Wednesdays and Fridays (the proper PE uniform of a plain white top and plain black bottoms is necessary, no earrings please!). Children should come wearing their PE kit With their red school jumper over the top. This half-term we will focus on tennis and handball.
Book bags
Please make sure that you have a red book bag which should come to school each day. Books will be changed on Fridays. Book bags can be purchased for a small fee from the school office.
Homework
- Spelling (every Friday for a test the following week).
- Times tables – 3s, 4s, 8s, 2s, 5s and 10s. Please learn these inside out so that your child can answer any times table question in any order. You will also need to learn division facts for the times tables too. There is a times tables test each Friday in class.
- Please use TT Rockstars and other online games (for example Top Marks, Hit the Button) to practise. If you cannot find your log in, we are happy to give this to you again or support you to get onto the games at home.
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.
A lunchtime homework club is attended by children who do not complete their homework at home.
Looking forward to a great Spring Half-Term with Year 3!
Mrs Cain and Miss Yates
Welcome to Spring 2 Year 3!
History and Geography
This half term our global theme with be Peace and Conflict. We will be learning about the Second World War and its impact on Sheffield. We will also be giving the children role play experiences to help them to understand what life was like for child evacuees. As part of Geography, we will look at how the use of land changed during WWII and the geographical reasons why bombs were dropped in and around Darnall.
Maths
Maths will see us continue our journey with fractions, adding up and subtracting fractions and beginning to apply reasoning to our understanding of fractions. We will continue to learn and apply knowledge of times tables (2,5,3,4,8,10) and cover mass and capacity – moving between units of measurement eg. converting from kg to gs etc. And applying reasoning to further our understanding of weight and measure.
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 focus on speaking to support their writing and on how to formulate a letter to persuade someone – a useful skill! Some children will continue to work on narrated sentences to support their writing; while others will be working with increased independence.
Book Study
In Book Study we will build on skills in fluency, oracy and comprehension with children given plenty of opportunities to read out loud and make inferences about characters, themes and ideas in the texts we read. These will include, The Lion and the Unicorn by Shirley Hughes, Bombs and Blackberries by Julia Donaldson and Big Tom by Jean Ure.
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.
Visits
We will soon be sending out information on our Year 3 visit to Eden Camp Modern History Museum (the visit will take place on Tuesday 21st April 2026.
A fundraiser will happen this half-term to help pay for the cost of the visit. Please support us!
PE
Our PE days are Wednesday and Friday. Please ensure that your child is wearing full PE kit. No earrings please on these days. Gymnastics is barefoot, so no tights on PE days please.
Home learning
Spellings are given out on Friday and tests happen on Friday mornings.
IXL and Times tables Rockstars. Please ask if log ins are lost.
Children must learn their 3, 2,5, 10, 8 and 4 times tables.The tables need to be learned so children are fast and can complete them in any order.
Children not completing homework at home will need to do this at school during lunchtime homework club.