St John Fisher Catholic Primary School

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Year 3

2025-2026

Welcome to the Year 3 Class Page. This page will share the different learning experiences that take place in our class throughout the year. Visit this page regularly to see updates, pictures and videos of our learning.

Teachers: Mrs Naqvi and Mrs Vontzalidis on Tuesday afternoons

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Anil and Miss Exelby

Spring update

Welcome back, hope you have had a great restful break!

In English we will be learning about Persuasive writing. The book for this topic is 'Daisy Eat Your Peas' by Kes Gray and Nick Sharratt. The children will be learning about what persuasion is and generating their own ideas for their own persuasive speeches. The will be learning about different features and elements of persuasive speeches like alliteration, second person and rhetorical questions.

This term, we will be focusing on ‘Ancient Britain.’ The children will begin this unit by learning about the earliest part of the Stone Age. They will also explore how life in prehistoric Britain changed as the Bronze Age dawned and what life was life in Iron Age Britain.

In Maths we will be learning about Money and Time. In Money the children will be learning how to add and subtract pounds and pence. They will also be learning also how to calculate change as well. In the Time topic children will be exploring how to tell the time using hours, minutes and seconds. They will also learn how to measure and compare time, find durations and converting time.

In Science we will be learning about Animals including humans. Identifying that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement. Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.

Our fourth topic is called Desert to Garden. Children will be learning about the miracle of Feeding the Five Thousand. Recalling the words and actions of Jesus at the last supper and describing, with increasing detail and accuracy, the prayers, religious signs, and actions of the Mass, focusing on the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Dates for the Diary

Thursday 5th March	World Book Day
Friday 6th March - 15th March	British Science Week
Thursday 12th March	Tag Rugby Festival Yr2&3
Friday 20th March	PTA School Disco
Friday 27th March	End of term. School closes at 13.30

Things to remember

PE days Monday (Fundamental skills) and Tuesday (Dance)
Library books are changed on Thursdays
Homework is set on a Friday and is due in the following week on Thursday
Spelling tests are on Fridays
Timetables test are on Wednesday
Stationary to remember glue stick, ruler, rubber, pencil, purple pen.

Our Learning experience

Year 3 have created some amazing sunflower paintings inspired by the artist Vincent Van Gogh. Using various colours for their artwork and focusing on looking carefully at the image to create their own work.

In English we have been learning about free verse poetry and reading 'The Magic Box' poem by Kit Wright. The children have written their own free verse poems all about cooking and baking.

In PSHE we learned about social media and learning about how images in the media do not always reflect reality and can affect how people feel about themselves.

In Science we have completed our Light topic. The children have been writing an extended piece of writing all about what they have learnt about light, reflection and shadows.

In computing we have been learning about animations. We know all about how frames are used to create the illusion of motion. We have also used onion skinning and have used iMotion to make our animations. Here are some of our examples:

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