Year 3

Year 3 Curriculum Projects

YEAR 3 PROJECT - Through the Ages

In the Through the Ages project, your child will learn about three different periods of British prehistory: the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. They will discover terminology relating to time and sequence dates to make a timeline. They explore the changes to people, homes and lifestyle throughout the different periods and investigate examples of prehistoric settlements, monuments, burials and artefacts in detail. They will also study how technology improved over time, including how the discovery of different metals changed the way that people lived.

Memorable Experience: 'Prehistoric visit'

Geography: Human features; Stone Age monuments

History: Historical vocabulary; Prehistory; Stone Age; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Chronology and timelines; Everyday life; Tools and weapons; Settlements; Stonework and metalwork; Religion and beliefs; Wealth and power; Invention and ingenuity; Evidence and enquiry

This project is also supported by mini projects in; 

Science: Skeletal and Muscular Systems

Art and Design: Prehistoric Pots

Design and Technology: Cook Well, Eat Well

Computing: lessons derived from D.A.R.E.S

Music: lessons derived from Kapow

PE: lessons derived from TeamThemeKent

PSHE: lessons derived from JIGSAW content

RE:  lessons derived from Kent SACRE scheme and Cornerstones RE projects 

 

More information about the Year 3 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 3 Long Term Plan 2024-2025  document found below.

Year 3 Key Information

In Year 3, PE lessons are timetabled for Tuesday (Tennis) and Wednesday (Tag Rugby)

Please make sure kits are in school and earrings are removed.

 

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English

W/c 27th October 2025

This week we will:

• Consider coordinating conjunctions to join independent clauses,
• Consider coordinating conjunctions for compound subjects,
• Discuss the features of a non-chronological report (prior to writing our own next week); and
• Complete topic related reading comprehensions.

 

Playing 'punctuation pirates' on Ed Shed will support this.

 

Spellings

We have 4 spelling groups:

• Acorns
• Conkers
• Pine Cones; and
• Leaves (lists are in reading records)

Information on your child's spelling group is in their reading record.

 

Spellings will be given on Thursday 30th October and dictation is on Tuesday 4th November

This weeks' phoneme is 'aw'

 

Acorns

for

forty

saw

more

August

door

four

your

all

talk

almost

sure

quarter

 

Conkers

for

forward

forty

saw

more

core

August

door

four

your

all

talk

almost

sure

quarter

reward

 

Pine Cones

forward

forty

important

ordinary

saw

crawl

core

before

therefore

August

author

audience

door

four

your

course

all

talk

almost

sure

quarter

reward

towards

 

 

https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/menu 

 

 

 

Maths

 

W/c 27th October 2025

This week we will:

• Subtract across 10
• Subtract across 100

 

Please encourage your child to access Times Table Rock Stars at home. Their log in is the same as their Numbots log in. Their focus should currently be on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

 

Below are links to Infinity quizzes to help further embed in class learning.

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

 

Additional Information

Thank you so much for making our PGL trip so successful! We made some amazing memories and can't wait to share these with you in our class assembly at the end of November.

 

Children need their reading book and reading record in school every day. 

 

On Wednesday 5th November we will be making our own box models of Stone age settlements/monuments.  If you have any shoe boxes or stone collections at home please send them in.

 

Every child should have a coat each day - we believe that getting outside (no matter the weather) is important.  

PE kits should include a spare set of socks and a PE jumper/hoodie.

 

Show and Tell

Show and Tells are welcome anytime but these should be recent personal achievements or linked to our 'in class' learning.

 

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We encourage the children to:

• Read every day for at least 15 minutes.
• Spend 15 minutes on TTRS or Numbots.
• Access their spellings on Spelling Shed