St Austin's RC Primary
Year 3 2025 - 2026
Miss Swift
Y4 Teacher
Welcome to Year 3!
St Austin’s Primary School Key Stage 2
School Time Table
Year Group – Year 3
English
This term, we will be reading Winter's Child by Angela McAllister. When Tom wishes winter would never end, he meets another boy who shares his love of snow and ice. Playing together every day, Tom doesn’t care that spring hasn’t come—until he realizes the terrible effect the unending winter is having on his sick grandmother. When he realizes his friend is Winter’s child, he knows they must say good-bye if the seasons are ever to change. This will inspire us to write a fantasy fictional piece.
Following this, we will be reading Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies illustrated by Nick Maland, is an award-winning picture book (suitable for ages 5–8) that explores the life of the largest creature to ever live. It offers a sensory and informative, yet accessible, look at the blue whale's size, diet, and migration, including details about calves, heart rate, and how they communicate. This will inspire us to write a non-fiction leaflet.
Maths
In maths, we will also continue to progress with our ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide large numbers. Building on our growing knowledge of the times table facts, we will be practising our quick recall of facts from x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x8, x10, x11. Throughout the term, we will be using our mathematical skills to solve word problems.
Science
This term, in Science, we will be looking in depth at food and its nutritional value and how our body moves. In particular, we will be exploring the nutrients within food and investigating how different factors of our bodies (bone length and height) perform in exercises.
Reading books need to be in school every day. Please have your reading record signed each day so that we can make sure that you are reading regularly. You should aim to read between 20 and 30 minutes a night during the week, and at least once over the weekend. Book quizzes may be completed at home or in school. Daily reading is rewarded with 5 dojos. If you are using the app at home, then you need to access our school's designated page:
If you are struggling to access this at home please do let me know.
Homework
Reading comprehension, spellings and mathematics homework will be set each Friday. This homework is due in by the following Thursday, when it will be checked. In mathematics and grammar, you will be set an online homework through ‘Century’ or 'Times Table Rock Stars' – usernames and passwords have been placed in the front of every child's readign record. Each week, if you have completed and remembered to bring in your homework, you will be rewarded with Dojos. However, if you do not complete your homework, you will be required to complete it during homework club.
In addition, it would be a great idea to use NumBots to maintain the excellent knoweldge that you gained in Year 2!
Updates about our learning will be posted on our Class Dojo page including pieces of work and photographs.
