Autumn 1 2025

This half term, the Year 3 Owls are learning...

Collective Worship

Our values are Respect, Love, Forgiveness, Service, Friendship and Peace. These values underpin our curriculum.

Throughout this half term, we are learning about what each value means and how we can promote each one through our daily actions to make a positive contribution to our school and the wider community. We are reading, listening to and responding to bible stories, which teach Christians about the importance of our values in daily life.

Don't forget to complete your values task at home - it could be included on our next newsletter!

RE

This half term, we are learning about 'How do people of faith say thank you to God for the harvest?' and we will be thinking about the following key questions:

• Why do communities celebrate the harvest?
• Why do Christians celebrate Harvest Festival?
• What exactly is being celebrated at harvest?
• Who celebrates the harvest?
• How do communities around the world celebrate harvest?
• Why is the harvest celebrated by people with faith and those of no faith?
• What does the Harvest Festival, and being thankful mean to you?

Through our RE lessons, we will be deepening our understanding of the faiths of Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam.

English

This half term, we are studying the text ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. We are using our reading skills to gain a deeper understanding of the characters, settings and plot within the text. We also have a variety of opportunities to write for different audiences and purposes:

• to write an approaching threat narrative
• to write a trap explanation

Reading Plus

This half term, we are accessing Reading Plus on a weekly basis in school. Every child is to complete a minimum of 5 reading sessions per week. The aim of this programme is to improve children's reading and comprehension skills, by quickly adapting to meet the exact needs of every learner. Any sessions not completed by the end of the week in school, should be completed for homework.

Maths

In our daily lessons, we are learning about the following topics:

• Number sense and exploring calculation strategies
• Place value
• Graphs

Please ensure that your child has secure knowledge of the times-tables up to twelve multiplied by twelve, alongside the corresponding division facts. These should be practised at home on a regular basis through Times Tables Rockstars.  

Science

In Science this half term we are learning about light.

Please make sure that your child learns all the vocabulary definitions and facts that are listed on their Knowledge Organiser, so that they are fully prepared for their science lessons. This knowledge will be tested in a quick quiz at the beginning of each lesson. A copy of this document is available on our class page and will be stuck in your child's Homework Book at the beginning of each half term.

PSHE

This half term, we are learning about healthy relationships.

PE

In our PE lessons, we will be playing creative games, focussing on tag and target.

DT

In DT, we will be learning about ICT and electrical systems. We will be investigating how to make a circuit and exploring stable structures. This will support us to then make our own table lamp!

Geography

In our Geography unit for this half term, we will be learning what makes a ‘Global Citizen’ and why it is important. We will also be looking at the 17 Global Goals.

Please make sure that your child learns all the vocabulary definitions and facts that are listed on their Knowledge Organiser, so that they are fully prepared for their Geography lessons. This knowledge will be tested in a quick quiz at the beginning of each lesson. A copy of this document is available on our class page and will be stuck in your child's Homework Book at the beginning of each half term.

Junior Jam

We have specialist French, Computing and Music teachers from Junior Jam who come into school to teach the children these subjects.