Year 3

Year 3

Class teacher: Miss Campbell

Class T.A: Mrs Szlapanska

Welcome to Year 3 – we are so excited to work with you this year and taking you on a journey with us through our immersive curriculum.

We will always make every effort to help you so please do not hesitate to approach us before or after school.

Class Timetable

2025-2026

In Science, the children have been learning all about mammals and have enjoyed exploring the human skeleton, discovering how our bones support and protect our bodies. In Geography, Year 3 have been fascinated by volcanoes and learned about how they erupt and the impact they can have. Linking this to our English work, the children are now writing diary accounts imagining they were present during the volcanic eruption of Pompeii, using descriptive language to bring this dramatic event to life.

In Art, we are exploring the work of American Modernism artist Georgia O’Keefe. We will learn about picking the right media and tools to create different effects in our drawings. At the end of this unit children will create their own flower drawing using their new skills. In Science we be learning about forces and magnets. In our first ever physics topic we will investigate how friction is a force when two objects are moving against each other and how different surfaces can affect friction. We will also explore the magnetic force and discover which objects are attracted to magnets.

2023-2024

Year 3 enjoying their Design and Technology lesson were they are learning about healthy tasty food options and enjoyed making tacos. YUM!

Year 3 walked from St Marys and visited Grimsby town Hall Museum.

Year 3 enjoying their Music lesson and joining in with the music.

Year 3 taking outside to learn about Figure grid referencing.

year 3 learning about forces in their Science lesson.

Year 3 have been recognising and describing characteristics of different aspects of home life.

2022-2023

2026 – 2027

In Year 3, in science, our current topic is Forces and Magnets. So far, the children have enjoyed investigating friction by using ramps, toy cars and a variety of different surfaces. They explored how friction can affect the speed of an object and the distance it travels. We have also used Newton meters to measure the amount of force needed to lift a range of objects from around our classroom. In RE, we have been learning about Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ letter encouraging us to care for the Earth, our common home. The children have thought carefully about the responsibility we all have to look after God’s creation. They created thoughtful pledges and posters explaining the different ways in which we can be stewards of God’s creation and make positive choices to care for our world. In Maths, we have been developing our understanding of number lines up to 1,000. The children have been learning how to identify and place numbers accurately on number lines with different intervals. We took our learning outside the classroom and worked together to create our own large number lines, helping us to apply our place value knowledge in a practical and engaging way.