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A huge well done and thank you for all of your amazing homework projects. We can tell how much effort has gone into them. 🏅
7Welcome to our Year 3 Information Page. On this page you will find our Y3 Long term plan, our latest termly class newsletter, details of our homework project for this half term and any other relevant information.
Below is the plan showing the topics taught through the year. Please see the curriculum subject pages for more information regarding the topics.
Y3-Long-term-plan-2025-2026Below is the relevant information that you will need for this term. If you have any further questions please see the class teacher.
Year-3-Autumn-Parent-Partnership-Letter-2025Alongside weekly class homework, a termly homework project will be set to support classroom learning. Below is this half terms project.
Y3-Autumn-HomeworkSystematic synthetic daily phonics is taught following the Read Write Inc Programme throughout Early Years and Key Stage 1, beginning in the summer term of Pre-school. Pupils are grouped according to ability across the year groups. Progress is tracked throughout the year by the early reading and phonics lead and groupings are adjusted accordingly. Pupils in Year 1 have a National Phonics Screening Test in June. Pupils who do not achieve the expected standard re-sit the test the following year when they are in Y2. Fast track tutoring will be used as an intervention when required to support early reading and writing.
When pupils complete the Read Write Inc phonics programme they begin ‘No-nonsense spelling’. This programme is taught throughout Key Stage 2.
We use the Read Write Inc reading scheme throughout Early Years and Key Stage 1 where books are fully decodable and correlate with where the child is up to in the scheme. Children are also sent home two books which are matched to their reading level from RWI and a book to read for pleasure with an adult, which will be from the school library.
In Key Stage 2 the reading schemes used are Oxford Ready Tree Treetops and Literacy World. Children also visit the school library each week and take a book home to enjoy with an adult.
If you have any questions or would like any further information about the curriculum or how you can further support your child’s learning at home then please speak to your child’s class teacher.
If you would like any copies of the documents on this page, the school office will be happy to print them for you.
A huge well done and thank you for all of your amazing homework projects. We can tell how much effort has gone into them. 🏅
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Year 3 explored different objects around the classroom to see if they were magnet or non-magnetic.
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The children have been exploring magnets and investigating if the size of the magnet affects the strength of the magnet.
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The children have been exploring magnets and investigating North and South poles.
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This week Year 3 took part in their first Rosary and look forward to doing this every week.
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Year 3 took part in their first class meditation focusing on ‘The Bible is God’s word’
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Year 3 raised money for CAFOD by selling cakes.
They raised an amazing £119.29
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The children at St Jude’s have worked incredibly hard this week. Well done to all the children who earned a certificate this week.
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Well done to this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work!
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Year 3 went to church for Mass. They learned about the four parts of Mass and joined in with the responses.
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What a wonderful half term we have had at St Jude’s! It has been a joy to share all of the hard work the children have accomplished over the last 8 weeks.
Here are this week’s achievers. Keep up the great work everyone and we look forward to celebrating everyone’s success next half term ⭐️
Year 3 have been taking part in the Halle Music project composing their own piece of music linking to the Stone Age.
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The children created their own sunset water colour painting and made links between the creation story and Psalm 19.
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🧠 💛 World Mental Health Day 2025 💛 🧠 On Friday, our School Council spoke to the whole school about World Mental Health Day and why we were wearing yellow – to show support and raise awareness for mental health. They also launched a Kindness Challenge, encouraging everyone to be extra kind to others throughout the week. It was a lovely reminder that even small acts of kindness can make a big difference
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Congratulations to all of our achievers! We love celebrating all of the hard work that has taken place throughout the week.
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Meet our new school council for 2025 – 2026. Congratulations to all the children selected. Our first meeting will be held next week ⭐️
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The children took part in Prayer and liturgy focusing on the creation story. We took time to reflect on our world and what God created.
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On Friday, we celebrated our first Achievers Assembly of the new school year. Well done to this week’s achievers! Keep up the great work ⭐️
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Mr Wilson led our back to school Prayer and Liturgy. We each thought about how we can shine our light this new school year.
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This week Years 3 and 4 performed the Stations of the Cross. The children have worked incredibly hard to remember each of the stations and recall their lines.
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A fabulous Prayer and Liturgy to celebrate all of the amazing ladies in our lives.
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As part of our RE topic, Year 3 was asked to come up with an action to show how they live in God’s image. Year 3 decided to raise money for charity to show this. They discussed different ways they could raise money and decided to make their own Easter hamper and sell raffle tickets. They agreed to donate the money to the Good shepherd.
Year 3 have raised an amazing £231.
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Year 3 have been working on their balancing skills and working with a partner to balance in different ways.
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We have been experience with different rocks to find out which ones are permeable. The children tested the rocks by pouring water on them to see which rocks absorbed the water.
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We have listened to the story of the ‘parable of the Sower’ the children retold the story as a group through art.
They each chose a part of the story and drew a picture to represent it. We then talked about the message of the story and how it teaches us to trust, believe and follow God.
The children have been using the microbits to input their own codes to make it work.
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In Spanish, we have been practising greeting each other and asking and answering the question, ‘¿cómo estás?
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The children have been learning about pneumatic systems and made their own moving monster using a pneumatic system. They used a syringe, tube and balloon. When they syringe was pressed, air passed through the tube and inflated the balloon, this then made the mouth to open.
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The children were investigating different magnets to see which one was the strongest. They used a ruler to measure when each of the magnets attracted the paper clip. They found that it didn’t matter on the size of the magnet.
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The children worked together to plan their own prayer and liturgy. They chose how they wanted everyone to gather and wrote their own response prayer.
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In science the children have been exploring magnets and how they attract and repel. We talked about the north and south poles and how the same poles repel but the opposites attract.
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The children have been exploring the Bible. They have been finding out where different scripture are located for example, The creation story, is in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament.
The children have been using atlases to find out which country New York is in.
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The children used pipe cleaners to sculpt their own animals like the artist Alexander Calder.




Year 3 have been practising their footwork skills and developing their co ordination skills.





This week Year 3 celebrated Prayer and Liturgy in our Spiritual Garden. We listened to the creation story and discussed our duties as Christian stewards in protecting our special world.



Y3 used the chime bars to make up their own rhythm patterns.



The children have been researching the work of the artist, Alexander Calder.
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