Summer 2 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 prayer and we will be thinking about the following questions:

• What is prayer?
• How do people of World Faiths pray?

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

Throughout our RE lessons we answer 'Big Questions', which give us the opportunity to discuss and debate open-ended questions that have many possible answers.  These questions broaden our thinking, acting as a springboard to new ideas and opinions. 

English

This half term, we will be studying a wonderful book called 'Into the forest’ by Anthony Browne. We will be using our reading skills to gain a deeper understanding of the characters, settings and plots within these texts. We also have a variety of opportunities to write for different audiences and purposes. Our end of unit writing outcomes are to write a lost narrative and a newspaper report linked to these texts.

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:

• Measures: 

      - read scales with different intervals when measuring mass and volume

      - weigh and compare masses and capacities with mixed units

      - estimate mass and capacity

• Applying multiplicative thinking:

      - representing multiplication and division problems

      - solve a one-step problem

• Exploring calculation strategies and place value:

      - add and subtract mentally 

      - find 10, 100 and 1000 more or less

      - order and compare beyond 1000

      - round numbers

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 practiced at home on a regular basis through Times Tables Rock Stars. Their usage and progress is checked on a weekly basis.

Science

In Science this half term, they will be continuing their learning about plants.

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 is stuck in your child's Homework Book.

PSHE

This half term, we will continue learning about our health and wellbeing.

PE

In our PE lessons this half term, we will be developing our fielding and striking skills in cricket.

DT

In DT, we will be learning about shell and frame structures and exploring how we can strengthen them.

History

In History this half term, we are learning about the history of our local area (Blackburn).

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 History 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.