Welcome to Year 3

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Year 3 Summer Term 2025

Theme: From the Moor to the Sea!

Big Question: How does learning about our local area affect how we protect it for the future?

Our creative curriculum theme for the term is 'From the Moor to the Sea!' and has a geography focus. There will be lots of wonderful opportunities to investigate the local and surrounding areas as a class, in particular Dartmoor. The children will be busy writing tourism leaflets, sea-themed poetry & Dartmoor legends. Our class stories this term are all by Michael Morpurgo: The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and The Sandman and the Turtles. The curriculum letter and poster can be found by clicking on the links below:

Year 3 Curriculum Poster Summer Term 2025

Year 3 Curriculum Letter Summer Term 2025

Year 3 Spring Term 2025

Theme: Roman Invaders!

Big Question: What is legacy? How do we see the Roman legacy today?

Happy New Year and welcome back to an exciting, action packed Spring term! The children have returned refreshed from their Christmas break and have kicked off the New Year with enthusiasm.

Our new curriculum theme for the term is ‘Roman Invaders. Travelling back in time to the great Roman empire, children will learn about the invasion of Britain, the lives of the Romans & their beliefs. Our class novel in English this term is part of The Roman Mysteries Series: The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence- we will be using this fantastic story to inspire the children’s writing.

THE Y3 Class Assembly is on Wednesday 5th March

Year 3 Writing Project

St Andrew's Primary School has been very lucky to be part of a joint initiative with College Road Primary School: a project looking at ways to improve the local area surrounding each school. As part of the project, children in both schools looked at the positives and negatives observed in a recent local area visit. As a result of the walk, we decided to write letters to Luke Pollard MP to tell him all about what we had witnessed. College Road Primary did the same thing.

On Tuesday 18th March, both Y3 classes met at College Road and worked in collaboration: sharing letters, editing work and drawing/painting local landscapes. It was a fantastic day - a day which we hope to repeat in the future.

World Book Day

Year 3 & Foundation shared books with each other. What a lovely surprise!

Computing - Scratch

Year 3 have become Scratch experts and can code a sprite to do a variety of things:

Motion
Looks
Sound
Event
Control

Local Area Walk

We went for a walk around out local area with the aim to find parts of our local area which need developing. We found many things which we would like to change!

Information about our theme:

Year 3 Autumn Term 2024

Theme: Back to the Stone Age!

Big Question How did Britain change from the Stone Age to the Iron Age? Why is it important to be resilient?

Welcome back! I hope that you had a relaxing summer break and took advantage of the quality family time that you had together. The sun showed its face a few times! I am so excited to be staying in Y3 and teaching this class for the first time as their KS2 journey begins! This year I am joined in class by my teaching assistant, Ms Turner, who will supporting Y3 and helping the children with their transition to ‘the juniors’. Mrs King will teach the class every Friday for my PPA and Assistant Headteacher leadership cover.

Our exciting curriculum theme for this Autumn term is ‘Back to the Stone Age!’. We aim to bring this theme alive for the children by creating some stimulating ‘hands on’ experiences for them. They will learn how life was back in the Stone Age through the use of role play/drama, story-telling, art, research and dance. The children will also use their DT skills to create various tools, weapons and jewellery. We will have Stone Age themed days in school where the children will be able to wear costumes and take part in some Stone Age cookery and raft building. So much to look forward to!

The Y3 Class Assembly will take place on WEDNESDAY 16th OCTOBER at 9.10am in the school hall.

The curriculum letter and poster for this term can be found below: