Year 3
Summer, 2026
Welcome to Year 3!
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
This term we will be creating our own adventure story based on the book focus of ‘Journey’. Journey is a story book without words, so the children will be using a lot of inference skills to interpret the story, Children will recap previously taught skills and will learn about:
- Present perfect form verbs in past tense.
- Prepositions of time, place and cause
- Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
- Using paragraphs
- Using a or an correctly before a noun.
- Speech for conversation
Maths
This term children will be learning about how to read time with more accuracy to the nearest minute. Use vocabulary such as Am/PM, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight.
Adding and subtracting money in practical contexts (Word problems) .
Shape – Recapping knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes and observing them in different orientations. Recognising different angles and describe turns or shapes.
Religious Education
How do the ‘Five Pillars’ help Muslims live a good life?
The unit of study includes work on Muslim beliefs and practices, including the belief in Allah and the importance of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) as a role model and inspiration for Muslims. It expands and develops learning about the Five Pillars of Islam as a way of focusing on key Muslim beliefs about the right way to live. Pupils will learn and draw on specific religious language to explain Islamic values and how they are shared with other religions and worldviews.
Science
Flowering plants and plant growth.
In this module, children will learn to:
● identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves [and flowers]
● explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
● investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.
History
This unit will introduce the children to Ancient Egypt, exploring it as one of the earliest and most influential civilisations. Pupils begin by situating Egypt within the context of other early civilisations and understanding its long timeline. Through geography links, they examine Egypt’s desert environment and the Nile’s annual flooding, learning how this cycle supported farming. Pupils also investigate how we know about Ancient Egypt through archaeology and hieroglyphics. The unit further explores Ancient Egyptian beliefs, focusing on Pharaohs, the afterlife, and mummification, before examining key discoveries such as Tutankhamun’s tomb and reflecting on ethical considerations in archaeology.
Art
This term in Art we will study the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. We will learn about complimentary colours and modernism art. Children will create their own piece of Art at the end of the term by using painting techniques like our artist.
Computing
This unit builds on learning from previous coding units. Children will explore timers, the repeat command and the importance of nesting code. They will build up to using design documentation to code a program.
Online Safety – Children will learn about online reputations and how adding information about themselves on the internet, alongside digital footprints.
Music
Musical Spotlight: Enjoying Improvisation
Exploring the structure of songs is interesting and important. There are patterns in songs that will be recognised. Listening, singing, playing and improvising are some of them. Introduction, verse, and chorus are some more. Children will improvise over a section of the song.
PE
PE will be taught on Monday afternoons. The first 3 weeks of Summer term we will learn how to play tennis. The remaining 3 weeks we will be learning about Football.
Tennis – Tennis is a net and wall game. In this unit pupils will develop their understanding of the principles of net and wall games. Children will learn key skills such as racket control, hitting a ball and how to score points.
Football – Football is an invasion game. Pupils will develop their understanding of the attacking and defending principles of invasion games. Pupils will need to think about how they use skills, strategies and tactics to outwit the opposition. The main skills pupils will develop are running, dribbling and passing.
PSHE
In our PSHE we will start to create and think about services and products which we can be business owners for. This links into our Enterprise and fiver challenge for our school fayre. We will design products, complete market research and create brand names for our stalls in the summer term.
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)