Year 3
Spring, 2026
Welcome to Year 3!
We hope you had a lovely Christmas break and are ready for more learning in year 3 with lots of new things to learn.
Start time - 8:40am Pick up time - 3:15pm
If you have any questions, concerns or worries, please contact me at year3@cpa.dsat.education and we will do our best to respond as soon as we can.
Key information
Please ensure that your child brings a labelled water bottle to school everyday as well as ensuring that all items of your child's uniform is clearly labelled too. Snacks are not provided in Key Stage 2, please send with your child a healthy fruit snack or cereal bar for break time.
Reading books will be changed on Thursdays, please ensure your child brings their reading book and their reading record to school.
Homework will be sent out on a Thursday and will be due back the following Thursday.
Please click on the link below to find the information shared during our Beginning of Year meeting in September.
Curriculum
Please see attached the Year 3 curriculum for 2025-2026
Here is a summary of what we will be learning in Year 3 during the first half Spring term:
Reading
This term we will be reading a variety of small texts. The pupils will be learning how to answer a wide range of questions linked to the text following the VIPERS questioning (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Sequence/Summarise).
Children will be consolidating their knowledge on their reading VIPERS. Children will explore a range of texts each week with a focus on vocabulary and retrieval skills. Children will practise their oracy also by predicting what might happen in the story next based on clues read.
Every 2 weeks children will complete an unseen read and answer questions based on a text they are unfamiliar with.
Writing
In writing this term we will be studying the book – ‘Big Blue Whale’ by Nicola Davies. We will also be reading ‘This morning I met a whale’ by Michael Morpurgo.
By the end of the unit children will write their own informative article about Whales and persuade their audience to protect Blue Whales.
Children will be learning how to
- Use adverbs to express time, place and cause.
- Build increasing ranges of sentence structures and use different sentence starters,
- Use headings and subheadings to aid presentation
- Assess the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing.
- Use punctuation correctly – including question marks and apostrophes.
Maths
This term in maths we will be looking at measurement, perimeters and securing multiplication facts.
Measurement and perimeter – children will be able to use rulers to measure items to the nearest mm, cm and m. Children will then be able to apply this knowledge to measuring perimeters of shapes. Children will then learn about capacity and distance within measurement and be able to answer a range of word problems related to this.
At the end of the term children will secure the taught multiplication facts of year 3 of 3 ,4 and 8 times tables. Children will show a secure understanding of these times tables and answer reasoning questions associated with it.
Science – Human nutrition and movement
In this module, children will learn to:
● identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
● identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.
RE
‘Why do Christians call the day Jesus died Good Friday?’
This term we will be focusing on Easter and why Jesus died on the cross. We will explore the Easter story and make our own judgments why Christians call Good Friday – Good Friday.
PSHE
In PSHE this term children are beginning their economic education on money. Children will understand where money comes from and the importance of having a job is to secure money. Children will understand what different jobs are available and skills which will be required to have in order to have these jobs.
Design and Technology
In D and T this term we will be creating our own electronic posters linked to the Romans to teach other children. The posters we will create will light up and will be able to be used as a teaching aid to others.
Geography – Biomes
In this new Geography unit, children’s knowledge of the world, including continents will be built upon from KS1. Children will locate, identify and describe different biomes around the world. They will also explore why different biomes are important and what they provide for the animals and plants that live there. Children will be able to describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts.
Computing
In computing this term we will be looking at online relationships for our online safety and learn how to stay safe online communicating to our friends and family.
We will also be learning how to use spreadsheets to calculate and store data which we input.
Music
More Musical Styles
Music, with all its styles, has changed and shaped lives around the world. When you listen to music and it changes from loud to quiet or quiet to loud, it can be very exciting! We call these changes ‘dynamics’. Loud sounds are called ‘forte’, and quiet sounds are called ‘piano’. Explore these changes in dynamics within the music in this unit.
Thank you for your support. If you ever have any questions, please feel free to speak to a member of the Year 3 team.
Miss Westwood (Class Teacher)
Mrs Ridgeway (LSA)