Year Three
Welcome to Polar Bear Class!
Our teacher is Miss Winterbottom k.winterbottom@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk. Our teaching assistants are Mrs Corbishly and Mrs Day.
Welcome to Penguin Class!
Our teacher is Miss Tustin k.tustin@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk. Our teaching assistants are Mrs Jones and Mrs Gunn.
Please click here for the Year 3 'Meet the Teacher' presentation
Summer Term 2025
Welcome to our Year 3 class page.
Below is an outline of the learning that will take place this term.
English Key Text: Lost and Found
Reading:
- Explain the meaning of words in context; use dictionary to check meanings.
- Identifying themes in a wide range of books
- Listening to and discussing non fiction books and reading their writing aloud.
Writing:
- To write a newspaper report recounting an event
- To use paragraphs in an extended narrative
- To edit and improve their work, looking for spelling and punctuation errors.
Spelling , punctuation and grammar:
- To understand why paragraphs are used and use them in both fiction (including narratives) and non fiction writing
- To understand prefixes
- To use paragraphs in writing and plan ideas around a theme
Mathematics:
- To add and subtract fractions
- To calculate unit fractions of a set of objects
- To calculate non unit fractions of a set of objects
- To understand pounds and pence
- To convert between pounds and pence
- To add and subtract money
- To find change
- To tell the time to the nearest minute and nearest 5 minutes
Science: Light
- To recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
- To notice that light is reflected from surfaces.
- To recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect their eyes.
- To recognise that shadows are formed when the light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object.
- To find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.
- To know that we should not look directly at the sun as this can cause damage to our eyes.
- Know we can protect our eyes with hats and sunglasses and by not looking directly at the sun or bright lights
- Know that the length of shadows changes during a day as the Earth rotates and the sunlight hits the object from a different position.
- To know shadows are shortest when the sun is high in the sky and longest when the sun is lower in the sky.
Georgaphy:
- Find out about Norway and compare to the U.K and Italy.
- Using maps and atlases locate towns, cities and countries within Norway.
- To know the features of the different parts of Norway
- Explore what Norway can tell us about climate change.
- Think about what we can do about climate change.
- Discuss possible futures depending upon action taken.
DT: Pneumatics
- Use annotated sketches and prototypes to develop, model and communicate ideas.
- Select from and use appropriate tools with some accuracy to cut and join materials and components such as tubing, syringes and balloons.
- Investigate and analyse books, videos and products with pneumatic mechanisms.
Computing:
- Design, write, and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts
- Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output
- Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work, and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs
PSHE:
- Know that different family members carry out different roles or have different responsibilities within the family
- Know some of the skills of friendship, e.g. taking turns, being a good listener
- Know some strategies for keeping themselves safe online
- Know that they and all children have rights (UNCRC)
- Know that gender stereotypes can be unfair, e.g. Mum is always the carer, Dad always goes to work etc
RE:
- How do Christians show their faith?
- How do people in church communities support each other?
- How do Christians show their faith in their communities?
- How do Christians have a world wide impact?
- How do Christians use their faith to have a positive impact?
French:
Phonics: oi/ch/j/ge/ou/eau; silent terminal letters
Vocabulary:
- 3rd person forms of avoir and être
- Seed plural rules – s
- Plural change to determiner
PE:
Athletics and Rounders
- To learn about the importance of pacing over longer periods of time
- To improve the quality and accuracy of jumping skills
- To throw in different ways as far as I can
- To beat my personal bests
- To develop ability to find space and keep the ball.
- Be able to throw and catch with control using chest, bounce and shoulder passes
- To make decisions on what passes to use in different positions.
- To practise shooting and aims
Children in Year 3 will have PE on Mondays and Wednesdays. Please make sure that children come dressed in their PE kits in these days and earrings are taken out.
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As well as accessing our broad curriculum, our pupil offer outlines the additional opportunities your child will have whilst in Year 3
Curriculum Maps
Class Timetable
Homework in Year 3
Daily Reading
We encourage all children to read at home daily and a note to be written in their reading journal. If the school book has been completed then please read and share any other books/comics you have at home. These can also be recorded in the reading journal and can count towards the number of daily reads.
Spellings
Spelling will be sent home on a Friday and will tested the following Friday
SPaG.com
SPaG activities will be set on Fridays and will need to be completed by the following Friday.
Maths arithmetic
Arithmetic questions will be set on Fridays and will need to be handed in on the following Wednesday.
TT Rockstars
We suggest working on TT Rockstars for 15 minutes a week; however you can do more should you wish. Specific timestables will be set for your child and this programme aims to increase the fluency of these. This is an online maths game that can be accessed on tablet, ipads and desktops
English in Year Three
Reading in Year Three
Throughout Year 3, we develop the children's positive attitudes to reading and understanding what they are reading by listening to and discussing a wide range of fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction books. They use dictionaries throughout lessons to check the meaning of words they have read and identify themes and conventions in a range of books. Children will read further exception words, noting the correspondences between spelling and sound. They will continue to develop drawing inference such as inferring a characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and justifying inferences with evidence and predicting what might happen from details stated and implied.
By the end of year 3, the children should be able to justify their views about books written at an age appropriate interest level. They will be able to read a book accurately and at speed that is sufficient for them to focus on understanding what they read rather than on decoding individual words.
Writing and SPaG in Year Three
During Year 3, children will continue to develop the understanding of organising their writing in to paragraphs and in narratives, create settings, characters and plot. They will use the forms 'a' or 'an' according to whether the next word begins with as consonant or a vowel and be able to express time, place and cause using conjunctions.
Children will use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech and use the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past.
By the end of Year 3 the children should be able to write down their ideas with a reasonable degree of accuracy and with good sentence punctuation. They will understand and apply the concepts of word structure and use joined handwriting throughout independent writing. The children will begin to understand the skills and processes that are essential for writing : thinking aloud to explore and collect ideas, drafting and re-reading to check ideas, drafting and re-reading to check the meaning is clear.
Maths in Year Three
During Year 3, the children will continue to develop their understanding of place value by counting in multiplies of 4, 8, 50 and 100. They can work out if a given number is greater or less than 100 and recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit number. Children develop mental skills to add and subtract including: a three-digit number and hundreds and recall and uses multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 times tables developing on to formal written methods.
When working with fractions, the children will count in tenths; recognising that tenths arise from diving an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10. They will be able to find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators. They can recognise and show equivalent fractions with small denominators.
When looking at measurements they will be able to measure, compare, add and subtract length; mass and volume/capacity. They will investigate amounts of money, work out change needed, using both £ and p in practical contexts. and continue to tell and write the time from an analogue clock and 12 hour - hour and 24-hour clocks. The children will be able to identify right angles and relate them to quarter turns and also identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle. Children will develop their understanding of statistics by interpreting and presenting data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
