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 assistant is Mrs Hudson.
Spring Term 2026
Welcome to our Year 3 class page.
Below is an outline of the learning that will take place this term.
English Key Text: Paddington
Reading:
- Explain the meaning of words in context; use dictionary to check meanings.
- Draw inferences and justify with evidence e.g. characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives, from their actions or words.
- Predict what might happen from details stated and implied.
Writing:
- To write a report with description
- To write a character description
- To write direct speech
- To use speech in a narrative
- To write an informal letter
Spelling , punctuation and grammar:
- Identify and use a range of prepositions.
- To use and understand direct speech
Mathematics:
- To link multiplication and division in problem solving tasks
- To divide a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number with and without remainders
- To measure in metres, centimetres and millimetres
- To understand equivalent lengths
- To compare different lengths
- To add lengths
- To measure and calculate perimeter
- To understand numerators and denominators
- To compare and order fractions
Science:
- To understand different magnets and their parts
- To understand north and south seeking poles
- To explore the strength of different magnets
- To compare magnetic and non-magnetic materials
- To predict if two magnets will attract or repel
- To explore if magnetic force can be blocked
Geography:
- To know where Italy is located
- To know the similarities between Italy and the UK
- To understand what Italy is like in terms of climate, precipitation and mountainous regions
- To know the major cities of Italy
- To understand why tourism is important in Italy and understand why people visit Italy
- To investigate the different volcanoes of Italy
DT:
- Generate realistic ideas through discussion and design criteria for an appealing, functional product fit for purpose and specific user/s.
- Plan the main stages of a recipe, listing ingredients, utensils and equipment.
- Select and use appropriate utensils and equipment to prepare and combine ingredients. • Carry out sensory evaluations of a variety of ingredients and products. Record the evaluations using e.g. tables and simple graphs.
Computing:
- To create questions with yes/no answers
- To know the object attributes needed to collect relevant data
- To know and create branching databases
- To know why it is helpful for a database to be well structured
- To identify objects using a branching database To compare the information shown in a pictogram
PSHE:
- To know they are responsible for their own learning
- Know what an obstacle is and how they can hinder achievement
- Know how to take steps to overcome obstacles
- Know what dreams and ambitions are important to them
- Know about specific people who have overcome difficult challenges to achieve success
- Know how they can best overcome learning challenges
RE:
What is in the Bible and why is it so popular?
- What does the Bible teach Christian people about God, life, the universe and everything?
- How do Christians use Bible stories to inspire drama and dance?
- What does the Bible teach Christians about resisting temptation?
French:
- Vocabulary: Colours and prehistoric animals in cave paintings.
- Grammar: Gender and determiners
- Phonics: the sounds eau/au, oi, ou , ch.
- Culture: La fête des rois and la chandeleur
PE:
- To know they are responsible for their own learning
- Know what an obstacle is and how they can hinder achievement
- Know how to take steps to overcome obstacles
- Know what dreams and ambitions are important to them
- Know about specific people who have overcome difficult challenges to achieve success
- Know how they can best overcome learning challenges
Please make sure that children come dressed in their PE kits in these days and earrings are taken out.
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Click here to see the reading, writing and maths expectations in Year 3
As well as accessing our broad curriculum, our pupil offer outlines the additional opportunities your child will have whilst in Year 3
Curriculum Maps
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.
