Year 3's Learning Blog

2025 - 2026

What are Year 3 up to?

Spring

English:

During English, we will be consolidating our learning and be looking at more non-fiction pieces of writing. We will be working hard on extending our writing independtly to include, fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases and upleveling our adjectives using thesaurus'.

Maths:

In Maths, we will be continuing our knowledge around measure. This will includ scaling with g and kg. We will then move on to fractions. .

Science:

Our science topic is called 'Light and Dark.' We will look at:

Recall examples of light sources, objects that do not give out light and that darkness is the absence of light.
Describe ways to protect eyes from harm.
Describe what happens when light reflects, give examples of reflective surfaces or materials and describe factors that may affect the quality of a reflected image.
Describe how shadows form and identify patterns between groups of materials and the shadows produced.
Recall factors that affect the way a shadow appears, including what causes shadows to change throughout the day and factors that change the size of a shadow
Describe the pattern of changing shadows throughout the day.
Describe how the light source’s distance affects the shadow’s size.
Explain why a particular material is appropriate to make a shadow puppet and use knowledge of shadows to animate it.

Topic:

Our topic question for this half term has a History focus. The question is 'Why did the Romans invade and settle in Britian?'.

Autumn

English:

During English, we will be reviewing many previously taught skills such as basic punctuation and letter formation, commas to lists to be able to write a letter to tell their new teacher about themselves. After this, we will review adjectives, adverbs and apostrophes for the children to write a diary entry in the viewpoint of the main character of the story 'The Koala Who Could'.

Maths:

In Maths, we will be looking at place value within 100. We will use base 10 and place value counters to help us learn about ones, tens and hundreds. We will then look at adding and subtracting within 100 before moving on to numbers within 1000. We are also completing number sense daily to help us with our addition facts.

Science:

Our science topic is called 'Movement and Nutrition.' The food groups, what we eat and why we eat, and what animals eat and why. We will examine the human skeleton and look at identifying the key bones that make up our skeleton. We will also look at what a balanced diet is and why it is important.

Topic:

Our topic question for this half term has a Geography focus. The question is 'Why do people live near volcanoes?' Children will learn that the Earth is constructed in layers and the crust is divided into tectonic plates. Children will also look at a range of mountains including Mount Etna.

Summer

In English we are looking at different types of poetry. We will be looking at the features, reading and writing, shape, quatrain and kennings style poems. We will continue to work hard on our handwriting and spelling skills. We will be creating wonderful setting descriptions and recounting a story based upon Tadeo Jones. (A short film.)

In maths we are learning fractions of objects, money, time, roman numerals, geometry and statistics. We will continue to practice our times tables daily, looking at square numbers and recapping our 5's and 10's.

In Science we are looking at plants. How they grow, what they need to grow, how water is transported around a plant and how they disperse seeds. We will also learn how to plan an experiment and record results. We will be learning all about making connections - planning, gathering data, analysing data, concluding, evaluating and presenting.

Geography this term will focus on settlements. Children will learn about the different types of settlements and land use. They will look for physical and human features around the area that they live and how this has changed over time. Children we practice their map reading skills and OS symbols.

In History we will be investigating what the Egyptians believed. We will learn about why the River Nile was important to the Egyptians and how we know so much about them. What evidence is there? We will also investigate their religious beliefs.

In RE our new topic will be Why water is symbolic? Making connections between religious stories and the importance of water, identifying how water is used in some rituals, suggesting what water might symbolise.