On this page, you will be able to discover what your child has been and will be learning in class.
Mr Flitton teaches in class 7 and Miss Davis and Mrs Duckworth teach in class 8.
To contact Mr Flitton - [email protected]
To contact Miss Davis or Mrs Duckworth - [email protected]
Summer Term 2025
English
In writing this term, the topics are balanced arguments, diary entries and poetry. The children will explore the key features of these before writing their own. They will include Year 3 writing standards such as: compound and complex sentences, paragraphs, prepositional phrases, speech and rhyming.
This Term we will cover the following aspects of Grammar: Conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions, Fronted adverbials, A or an, Paragraphs, Present Perfect and Inverted Commas. Children will learn these skills within their hourly lessons and then be given the opportunity to prove their understanding during their review time. We will also revise basic grammatical terminology such as simple and compound sentences, adverbs, and prepositions.
This term in Guided Reading, Year 3 children will continue to build their comprehension skills by looking at texts including The Dancing Bear, The Sheep Pig, The Hodge Heg and The Magic Finger. During weekly Guided Reading sessions, we will read these texts aloud as a class and then children will be asked to summarise what they have read and then answer questions that will prove their understanding. Questions will be about the author’s choice of vocabularly, or testing the children’s inference and retrieval skills.
Maths
In Maths, the children will follow the concrete, pictorial and abstract approach. This term the children will learn:
Arithmetic and Reasoning is taught alternatively each week. Arithmetic focusses on the four operations: column addition, column subtraction, column multiplication and bus stop method for division. Reasoning will focus on developing mastery in mathematical areas and problem solving.
We will continue weekly sessions based on times tables.
Science
The Human Body
In this topic, the children will be focussing on a number of areas such as: nutrition, skeleton types, functions of a skeleton and muscles.
Plants
In this topic, the children will be focussing on areas such as: parts of plant and their functions, the requirements of plants for life and growth, the way in which water is transported within plants and the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.
Rocks
In this topic, we will compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties. We will also describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock. Finally, we will recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
Geography
Spectacular Britain
During this unit, we will recap the countries that make up the United Kingdom and their capital cities. We then will focus on regions and counties of the United Kingdom and we will name and locate other cities in the United Kingdom. We will be using atlases to name and locate the main rivers and seas of the United Kingdom. We will then use our knowledge of the physical geography of the United Kingdom to compare two countries within the UK.
Magnificent Mountains
During this topic, we will be using maps to locate mountains around the world. We will focus on the key features of a mountain and the different types of mountains that are formed.
Music
To link in with our Geography unit ‘Spectacular Britain’, we will be studying British and contemporary composers within the Music industry. We will focus on a range of different artists such as Ed Sheeran and Elton John.
Art
Van Gogh
We will be comparing the work that Vincent Van Goph created and compare it to the work of Margaret Flockton. We will also be sketching and recreating Van Goph’s Sunflowers using colouring pencils. We will then sketch and paint our own plant drawing based on Vincent Van Goph’s work.
Computing
The children will look at presenting information. In the first summer term, we will be using Google to present our slides. In the second summer term, we will be using Microsoft PowerPoint to present our slides.
Physical Education
During the Summer term in their indoor sessions, children will be learning about physical and Health and Fitness. During our physical unit, children will be taught to improve a range of skills such as movement with control, linking two movements together, coordination through sending and receiving activities, agility, reaction and response.
In Health and Fitness, children will be taught about the body and how it changes during exercise, be shown why exercise is important, improving agility through ball work and improving their balancing through floor work.
In their outdoor sessions we will be doing tennis and athletics. Children will learn to develop right and left-hand confidence with direction, improved aiming whilst attacking and defending, develop foot movement and improving their forehand and backhand skills.
During their Athletics sessions children will be taught to throw (using Vortex, beanbags etc), jumping, running techniques, running and jumping techniques. This will all be in preparation for Sports Day.
Religious Education:
In the first half term, our unit is ‘Kingdom of God’ which explores Pentecost and the Christian belief about the Kingdom of God on Earth. We will be making links between the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of God.
In the second half term, we will be moving onto our Hinduism unit. During the Autumn term, we completed a unit based on Diwali. This half term, we will focus on the River Ganges. We will describe and empathise the Hindu ritual that happens at/in the River Ganges and explain why it is important to them.
PSHE and Relationships
During these lessons, we will discuss and look at:
Homework
All Homework will be given out on a Friday and due back in on a Thursday. If your child has not completed their homework by this date, they will do it in Homework Club at break time.
Weekly spellings will also be given out on a Friday and their spelling test will take place on Thursday.
Each week, there will be a mymaths homework set for the children to complete. Please also make use of Times Tables Rockstars website to practice the times tables.
Useful Links
https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/recommended-reads/year-3/
Provides a useful reading list for children that are currently in year 3.
