Welcome to Year 3!

Welcome to our Year 3 page. Here you will find useful information about our termly curriculum, PE days, homework expectations and useful websites.

Our school values are: READY, RESPECTFUL, SAFE and KIND.

Our Federation is united by these four key values that all children are encouraged to live by every day. These principles shape how our pupils learn, behave and interact, creating a positive and supportive environment for everyone.

If you would like any further information about our values, please feel free to talk to our class teachers in the first instance who should be able to answer any queries.

Please refer to the presentation given in July for general information that can be found here: Welcome to Year 3 Presentation - 2025-2026

Here are our key texts for the school year. Please do not rush out to buy them or borrow them from the library as we often use them for prediction skills!

Our Learning

Curriculum maps

Year 3 Autumn 1 Curriculum Map 2026

Autumn Term 2026

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! We have been brave and shared our triggers, as well as deciding the size of problem, e.g. losing your pencil is "just a glitch" and shouldn't cause an explosive reaction.

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?

Meet Our Teachers

SEAVIEW CLASS

Miss Wells

Year 3 Lead Teacher - Progress and Attainment Leader

DENZIL CLASS

Mrs Lacey

Class Teacher

CASTLE CLASS

Mrs Thompson and Mrs Barrett

Class Teachers

Physical Education

Children wear their PE kits to school on their PE days, as listed below.

Earrings must be removed or covered in ear tape provided from home. Hair must be tied back.

The children have one indoor and one outdoor PE session each week.

Our PE days for Autumn 2026 are:

Seaview – Monday and Tuesday

Denzil - Tuesday and Thursday

Castle – Monday and Tuesday

Homework

Homework will be set every Monday and must be completed by the

following Monday. All our homework is centred around skills needed for all subjects and is planned intentionally to enable the children's retrieval skills.

The children have a pink homework book that is in their homework pack with their reading books.

Please use your individual log-ins to access Boom Reader, TT Rock Stars and Spelling Shed.

Each week, a Year 3 child is expected to complete:

READING Read at least 5 times a week and record a response on Boom Reader. Five reads need to be recorded each week to enable children to receive reading "Readopoly" rewards every half term.
SPELLING Spelling Shed games will be set for the children to do at home; 5 games a week will be allocated based on our weekly taught spelling rules. Your teacher may give you some additional common exception words from KS1 to practise alongside.
TIMES TABLES The children can log in to Times Tables Rock Stars to practise the multiplication tables set for them by their teacher. We may use other games and ideas to help them through the term. We suggest 10 minutes, 5 days a week.
ARITHMETIC The children have 6 questions, 5 times a week in their homework books.

Spelling Homework

Each Monday, 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!"

Once the children have built up 50 correct spellings over the term, they will receive their Bronze Spelling Award, 100 spellings earns them a Silver Award, and 150 spellings will earn them their Gold! If the children consistently get 5 or 6 correct a week through the year, they may even receive their 200 correct spellings Platinum Award!

Times Tables

Please continually practise your child’s times tables with them over the 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.

In Year 3, we learn the multiplication and associated division facts for the 5, 10, 2, 4, 8 and 3 times tables.

Please visit the "UR Brainy" and "Hit the Button" websites for more games to help to practise quick recall.

If you are having difficulties with technology, please speak to your class teacher and we will organise paper copies for you. We also run a "Homework Heroes!" club once a week at breaktime to help the children catch up on missed homework.

Library Days -

Autumn 2026: Please ensure your two library books are in school on:

Seaview - Tuesday or Friday

Denzil - Tuesday or Friday

Castle - Tuesday or Friday

We are unable to issue new books until the ones on loan have been returned. Many thanks for your help with this.

Useful Websites

Recommended Reads

Many parents have asked if we can recommend age-appropriate challenging texts for their child.

Below are links to two book lists of ‘recommended reads’ which are suitable for Year 3 Readers and for More Able Readers:

SLS Booklists Able Readers at KS2

Year 3 Book list

Grammar Guide for Parents

This useful guide is an excellent tool when helping children with their homework or revising key grammar vocabulary:

A Parents_Guide to grammar