Autumn Term 2025
Week commencing: 1st September
Welcome to year 3!
This week we have been busy settling into year 3. We have been learning all about the expectations of year 3 looking at the school and class rules, and what it’s like to be a year 3 student. We have also been learning how to tie our ties and shoelaces.
In PSHE this week we have been looking at our dream and nightmare schools, and how this fits in with our school rules and values.
Week commencing: 8th September
This week we have begun our formal lessons of maths and English.
In English we have been looking at our new class book ‘The secret of Black Rock’, looking at nouns, adjectives and adverbs.
In maths we have started the term with place value, looking at representing and partitioning numbers to 100.
In our afternoon lessons we have been looking at the countries of the UK in Geography, what happened after the last ice age in History and food chains in Science.
Week commencing 15th September
Year 3 have been working really hard looking at similes, personification and onomatopoeias in English this week.
In Maths we have been consolidating our understanding of hundreds, tens and ones by flexibly partitioning numbers using place value counters and finding more and less of a number.
In the afternoons this week we have explored what it would be like to be stone age hunter gatherers, become nutritionists looking at healthy diets and as theologists have learnt about the holy trinity.
Week commencing 22nd September
In English this week we have been looking at alliteration to add detail and description to our writing as well as learning how to use inverted commas to indicate speech.
In Maths we have been looking at numberlines to 10, 100 and 1,000 and have learnt how to estimate numbers using these as a guide.
In the afternoons we have learnt about why our bodies need energy in Science and have learnt the difference between mechanical and free hand lines in Art.
