Welcome to Year 3!

2025-26

Key dates for the year group (Autumn term):

Week commencing 6th October - Walk to Brighton Hill (Geography)

8th October - Harvest festival - donation to food bank

10th October - World Mental Health Day

14th and 16th October- Parent / Teacher meetings (3.40-6.30pm)

27th - 31st October - Half term

3rd November - INSET day

5th November - Y3/4 Reading cafe (9-10am)

10th November - 'Cool to be kind' week - anti-bullying week

14th November - Children in Need - Non-uniform day

17th November - Road Safety Week

25th November - Nasal flu vaccinations

9th December - Portals to the Past - Stone Age workshop (in school)

16th December - Christmas panto (in the school hall)

17th December - Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day

18th December - Y3 Listen to me concerts (time TBC)

19th December - End of term - finish 2:30pm

All about the Year 3 team

In Year 3, our teachers are Mrs Chappell (Year 3 Team Leader), Miss Smith and Mrs Bishop. We are also supported by our dedicated Learning Support Assistants (LSAs): Mrs Kingston, Mrs Hampton, Miss Grant-Berry, Ms Kirby and Ms Barton. They will support us during the day, in and out of the classroom.

PE in Year 3

Each week, the children will have two sessions of PE - one indoor session (Tuesday) and one outdoor session (Thursday). Children should come in to school wearing their PE kits on these days.  

Please follow the link below to find out more about our PE uniform expectations:

Home Learning

Each week, we will set home learning tasks for the children to complete. One will be a reading based activity on Purple Mash.  Maths home learning will be set on TTRockstars.

The children have also been given the list of Year 1/2 spelling or year 3/4 spellings. They need to choose 3 words each week to practise and at the end of the term, we will test them on words from the list.

All homework will be set on a Thursday and should be returned the following Tuesday. 

Follow the link below to the 'If you like...try...' book suggestion lists.

What we are learning this term:

Topics: Autumn

Geography - UK Map Skills

History - Prehistoric Britain Stone Age

Science - Animals including humans / Light

Art - Pointillism

DT - Textiles - creating a soft toy

Computing - E-safety / Scratch

RE - Remembering / Angels

PSHE - Valuing differences / Me and my relationships

PE - Personal / Tag Rugby

French - Getting to know you / All about me

Music - voice

Topics: Spring

Geography - Villages, towns and cities

History - Prehistoric Britain Iron and Bronze Age

Science - Plants / Properties of materials

Art - Clay pots

DT - Structures - desk tidies

Computing - Touch typing / Scratch

RE - Freedom / Ritual

PSHE - Keeping safe in school / People and their work

PE - Gymnastics / Netball / Frisbee

French - Food glorious food / Family and friends

Music - Bamboo tamboo

For more detailed information about what we are learning, please see the 'Curriculum' section of the website.

What have we been up to ...

Phonics at Hatch Warren Junior School

At Hatch Warren Juniors, we use the Read Write Inc phonics scheme to support reading development across the school.  To find out further information about our phonics scheme, follow the link below to our 'Reading at Hatch Warren Juniors' page.  There are also some useful parent information videos there which explain the phonics approach to learning to read.