Year Three Curriculum NewsletterAutumn 2025
Joy Excellence Service
"Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them."
Psalm 126:5-6
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
In Religious Education this term, we will begin with looking at our school mission statement and how we can use scripture to show this in our lives. We will also learn about our class saint, St Teresa of Calcutta. Throughout the term we will be covering two branches, Creation and Covenant, Prophecy and Promise. During our first branch, we will focus on the Creation story and how we are made in the image and likeness of God, is given the task of caring for the Earth, stewardship. They will reflect on the idea that God brings order and goodness out of nothing through his Word and Spirit—introducing them to the Christian understanding of the Trinity. The second branch will explore two key themes: the structure of the Mass and the Nativity in St Matthew’s Gospel. They will focus on the Liturgy of the Word, learning how Christians gather, listen to Scripture, and respond in faith, linking this to Creation themes such as gift and rest. This Branch helps deepen their understanding of the Mass and how Scripture is lived and celebrated in the Church, while respecting the diverse experiences pupils bring.
RSHE
Throughout RSHE this term, we will be covering the unit, 'Created and loved by God’. Created and Loved by God explores the individual. Rooted in the teaching that we are made in the image and likeness of God, it helps children to develop an understanding of the importance of valuing themselves as the basis for personal relationships. Children will learn to celebrate similarities and differences, and to appreciate and look after their bodies as gifts from God. Within this unit, children will also identify unacceptable behaviours and learn to build resilience against negative feelings by practising thankfulness.
ENGLISH
In the Autumn Term, we will start the term off with reading our class book of 'UG: Boy Genius of the Stone Age' by Raymond Briggs. The story follows the quest of a Stone Age boy, Ug, in his search for softer trousers. With ideas beyond his time his questioning and inventive mind proves exasperating at times for his parents. This story will allow us to follow a range of genres, such as an explanation text and descriptive writing. During this term, our story will allow us to follow a range of genres, such as poetry and a narrative. Within their SPAG lessons, the children will revisit and build upon their punctuation from year 2. They will also be exposed to new descriptive language which will provide them with opportunities to extend their writing knowledge.
MATHS
For the Autumn Term, the children will be focusing on place value, addition & subtraction and multiplication & division. and use a number line for numbers up to 100 and 1000. They will also learn how to compare and order numbers up to 1000. For addition and subtraction, the children will learn how to add and subtract in 1s, 10s and 100s as well as 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. Alongside this, they will also learn how to estimate answers and use the inverse operation. Within multiplication and division, the children will be recapping the use of equal groups and their 2, 5 and 10 times tables. They will then extend this and learn to multiply and divide by 3, 4 and 8; this will coincide with learning their timetables. The children will be provided with opportunities to develop their problem- solving skills.
SCIENCE
Within Science, the children will develop with understanding within two topics, 'Rocks' and 'Forces & Magnets’. In Autumn 1, the children will learn about the different ways that rocks are formed and their different purposes. Alongside this, they will learn about how fossils and soil are made. In Autumn 2, the children will learn about the push and pull forces as well as the attract and repel forces of a magnet. They will develop an understanding of the different materials that can be grouped into magnetic or non-magnetic and the purposes.
HISTORY
For the Autumn Term in History, the children will be learning about the 'Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age'. The children will learn about the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age in the past and now. They will also understand the legacy left by the Stone Age and Iron Age people. Throughout this topic, we will make links to the local area and how this time period affected it. Their research will be conducted through a variety of ways and this will develop their historian skills.
ART/DT
For Design and Technology, the children will be learning how to safely, design, evaluate and make their own product based on their topic of 'Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age'. To successfully build a functional product, children will explore and evaluate existing products by testing them, considering a wide range of factors. In Art this term we will be using the skill of 'Sculptures' in the form of ‘Sensory/Interactive ' . Across the topic, the children will learn about the artist Helio Oiticica as well as other artists who produce sensory pieces. Our focus will be to create a sensory sculpture that uses your senses. You might be able to see it, hear it or smell it!
MUSIC
For Autumn term 1, we will look at writing music down for our topic. Within this topic, the children will learn about long and short (rhythm) and high and low (pitch) sounds and how these can be represented by musical symbols. Alongside this, they will learn that these symbols can be written on a stave and named with special musical names. This helps us to remember what we are going to sing and play. Our second unit, in Autumn term 2 will explore the topic of ‘Playing in a band’. Here they will try to read the notation of one of the easy instrumental parts when playing together in this unit. We will look at when people sing or use instruments to play two or more different pitches that sound at the same time, we can hear harmony in music. We will also explore singing and playing instruments together to create these beautiful sounds.
MFL
During our Spanish lessons this term, we will be starting by introducing how to greet and hold a simple and short conversation in Spanish. By the end of this unit we will be able to: Say ‘hello’ (formally and informally) in Spanish; Say ‘my name is… ’ in Spanish; Ask somebody in Spanish how they are feeling and give a reply and Say ‘goodbye’ and ‘see you soon’ in Spanish. In the second half of the Autumn term, the children will learn 10 colours and how to count from 1-10 in Spanish.
P.E.
Within outdoor PE, the children will complete two topics, 'Outdoor Athletics' and 'Outdoor & Adventurous - Orienteering’. In indoor PE, the children will learn four gymnastics skills: 'Travel', 'Rotation', 'Flight' and 'Balance'. These four skills will allow the children to create their own sequences of movements with their own rules and versions of the task. These opportunities will also provide the children with the chance to identify what went well and how they can improve on their own work and that of others.
COMPUTING
Within Computing, the children begin by looking into technology progression. In this topic, the will explore the use of AI and DNA analysis and how this is used within forensic criminology. We will also discuss the benefits of using technology in solving a crime. For Autumn term 2, our topic will focus on understanding programming. Here we will begin a project on Scratch (a programming software) and understanding the design and sequencing processes to create a sequence of connected commands
