Year 3

Year 3 has children aged 7-8 years old. We have 3 classes in year 3, with 30 pupils in each class.

The classes are named after famous people, They are Brontë, Hockney and Nightingale.

The teachers for 2024/25 in Year 3 are Mrs Jones in Bronte, Miss Shaw and Mrs Bird in Hockney and Mrs Ahmed in Nightingale. They are supported by Teaching and Learning Partners Miss Mohammed, Mrs R Hussain, Mrs Bi, Miss Afzal and Miss Mehmood.

What will we be learning this year?

Autumn 1 Term

Curriculum Theme: Why do people choose to live in dangerous places? (Volcanoes and Earthquakes)
Literacy: Story Opening – Fiction: Escape from Pompeii. Description fiction – floods.
Supporting texts: Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit.
Science: Rocks and soils.
Maths: Place Value – numbers to 1000.

Autumn 2 Term

Curriculum Theme: Why do people choose to live in dangerous places? (Continued)
Literacy: Poetry: silly poems from our book spine: Michael Rosen.
Supporting texts: Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian
Science: Forces and Magnets.
Maths: Place Value – numbers to 1000.

Spring 1 Term

Curriculum Theme: How did humankind move from surviving to thriving? (Human Prehistory)
Literacy: Narrative text: The wild girl, Instructions: How to catch a woolly mammoth.
Supporting texts: The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler
Science: Animals including humans.
Maths: Addition and subtraction.

Spring 2 Term

Curriculum Theme: Where does our food come from? (Farming/Food/Water/Trade)
Literacy: Stone Age Boy.
Supporting texts: You’re a Bad Man Mr Gum by Andy Stanton.
Science: Animals including humans.
Maths: Geometry.

summer 1 Term

Curriculum Theme: What makes a civilisation significant? (Ancient Egypt)
Literacy: Description of a tomb, Diary entry of an Egyptian.
Science: Plants.
Maths: Multiplication and Division.

summer 2 Term

Curriculum Theme: What makes a civilisation significant? (Continued)
Literacy: Non-chronological reports: Egypt now and then.
Supporting texts: Matilda by Roald Dahl.
Science: Light and Shadow.
Maths: Fractions.