Curriculum maps
Year 3 Autumn 1 Curriculum Map 2025
Year 3 Autumn 2 Curriculum Map 2025
Year 3 Spring 1 Curriculum Map 2026
Year 3 Spring 2 Curriculum Map 2026
Autumn Term 2025
What an exciting start we have had to Year 3! We have worked hard to use our Zones of Regulation to keep ourselves in the green zone to maintain our focus and to keep smiling! Our "Gotcha" smiles are beaming around the whole school!
In our story, "Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion," Little Red has gone missing!
Where is she? What could have happened to her? Has the Lion eaten her?
We are having great fun predicting, looking for clues and piecing them together. We have built a good vocabulary to describe the settings and characters and our next steps are to design WANTED posters for the Lion and MISSING posters for Little Red. We will out them up around school and hopefully someone will be able to help us soon!
In Geography, we are learning about the continents and oceans of the world, with a focus on Europe and the United Kingdom. Do you know the difference between the United Kingdom and Great Britain? Ask Year 3! Check out the curriculum map for a Geography home learning project. Can you find famous landmarks on Google Maps?
Autumn 2
We have continued our journey around the world to the Kalahari Desert in Africa this half term, studying the marvellous mysteries of meerkats! We have loved researching these fascinating creatures, exploring ways to find facts using video clips, non-fiction books, the internet, fact files, the library and diagrams! We are looking forward to sharing our finished fact files with you soon. We are working incredibly hard on our spelling and handwriting, and we can't wait to share our published pieces!
We are also enjoying our rehearsals for "Santa's on Strike!" and we are looking forward to sharing our "Fa la la la la's" with you!
Spring 1
It's been dragon-mania in Year 3 this half term! We had an amazing visit from M.P. Robertson who shared his phenomenal dragon artefacts and illustrations with us as well as his exciting stories! We loved his drawings, and loved learning how to draw a dragon just like his! His pet dragon, Ignatius, chased Miss Wells, Mrs Lacey and Mrs Major across the playground, and then was captured on CCTV a week later flying around the school looking for them! We warned the school community by producing WANTED posters describing the dragons around school. After two more sightings in Westwood Road and in the school car park, we haven't seen him since so we think he may have found his way back to Mark.
In Maths, we have been working hard on our division and multiplication skills. Please help us at home with learning our 2, 5, 10, 4 and 8 times tables!
Our project work has been learning about chronology and timelines, with a focus on the Stone Age. We have been discovering all about the inventions of the Stone Age and how people survived. We had great fun pretending to be a Stone Age child hunting and gathering, while being aware of the threats they would have faced. We are beginning to explore inventions such as homes, tools, weapons, clothes and jewellery after half term, when we will learn about the Bronze and Iron Ages, comparing changes between these time periods.
Spring 2
We are continuing our work on the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, and we are looking forward to our trip to Butser Farm!
Each Friday, the children will have a dictation exercise that contains 6 of the 10 words we have been practising on Spelling Shed. This dictation will also include Common Exception Words from KS1 that the children have been practising in class, for example, if we have been learning ou sound spellings, and CEW "little, saw and with", the dictation might be "I saw a little round house with a spout!" 
year. The government expectation is that children should know all times tables up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4. With this in mind, it is important children consolidate their learning regularly at home in order to meet age related expectations.