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

We use our CLIC values to help us to learn to the best of our ability.

We believe that every child has the right-

C– to be a confident communicator

L– to learn

I– to improve their health

C– to be part of a community

At Netley Abbey Junior School, these ideas underpin all of our learning. With this in mind, please take some time to see what we have been up to in class.

If you would like any further information about our curriculum, please feel free to talk to our class teachers in the first instance who should be able to answer any queries. Alternatively, you can direct any questions to Mrs Rosie Earle, Federation Director of Teaching and Learning. 

 Please refer to the presentation given in July for general information that can be found here: Welcome to Year 3 Meeting PowerPoint 2024

Our Learning

 Curriculum maps

Year 3 Summer 1 Curriculum Map 2025

Year 3 Summer 2 Curriculum Map 2025

Autumn Term 2024

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? 

 Summer Term 2025

We have been using our expert reading retrieval skills and inference to use clues to work

out who the main character is in our new text. The clues were mostly similes! Here are some of the ones we found:

taller than a house

iron head shaped like a dustbin but as big as a bedroom

iron foot as big as a single bed

torso like a washing machine

eyes like headlamps

We then used the clues to visualise what the character might look like! Here are some of our pictures:

We added in other body parts and created similes for them. Here are some of our similes:

iron teeth like piano keys

iron legs as wide as a wardrobe

hair like dustbin bags

ears as bouncy as a spring

body as hard as nails

metal body as cold as ice

The character is....The Iron Man by Ted Hughes! This is our heritage text this year. It was written in 1968 and Miss Wells read it when she was in Year 3 in 1983! 

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