Welcome to Year 3

To find out more information about Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs Bardgett, please see their 'Meet the Teacher' sheets at the bottom of this page. 

Key Days in Year 3 are: 

• PE days will be Wednesday inside the large hall and Friday outside.

Year 3 is the beginning of the four years that make up KS2 - for us at Holgate, that  also means being taught upstairs! The children are encouraged to begin to take more responsibility for their actions and their learning. 

Like all year groups, Year 3 has government statutory schemes of learning to follow. The children will be assessed throughout and at the end of the year to see if they have reached the expected standard. 

Our Year 3 Learning:

During the Autumn term, our Year 3 children will explore the period of time in History from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age through a Vehicle called ‘Hunter Gatherers.’ The children work in partnership with a Historical Educator at Creswell Crags to look at ways to engage other children in learning about the past. As a part of this partnership, the children will design and make an educational board game to teach others about the historical time period that they are studying. The children will have the opportunity to visit Cresswell Crags, where they will be able to walk in the footsteps of early humans and woolly mammoths through a dramatic gorge. 

In their Science lessons, the children will learn how fossils are formed over time and how these can help us with Historical study. This Vehicle will also enable children to look at Stone Age inventions and technology that has made their life easier and how these inventions have impacted our lives today. There are lots of opportunities for the children to learn new Art and Design skills and to develop their knowledge from KS1 and EYFS about modelling and using colours to create different effects.

In Spring Term, Year 3 will learn about healthy eating and build upon their KS1 knowledge of plants through the Curriculum Vehicle ‘Can I take your Order?’ The children will use their developing Geographical knowledge and understanding, to explore Poland, where it is in the world, and how the country and its traditional foods differ from England. The children will learn about diverse eating and veganism and will work closely with a chef to learn about their job. Children will then apply this Vehicle’s learning as they use the Cooking and Nutrition skills from their Design and Technology learning to plan and make their very own plant-based burger that will be judged on its nutritional value and presentation by the professional chef.

Year 3 children will then move on to a Geographical study of Europe in our Vehicle ‘Around Europe in 80 Days.’ The children will use their prior Geographical knowledge of the United Kingdom to compare the similarities and differences to a region of a European Country. A local travel company will work alongside the children in Year 3 to talk about their job as well as the key industry skills of presentation and communication and will then use these to produce a mixed media presentation. This will then be shared with the travel agents to solve their problem of branching out and organising holidays to some of their newly advertised European destinations.

In the final term of Year 3, children will undertake a local History study, called ‘Battle of the Mines.’ This Vehicle is heavily steeped in the History of our ex-mining community in Nottinghamshire and will involve a visit to Pleasley Pit to further develop knowledge around mining and settlements linked to mining in the local area. Through this Vehicle, the children will gain knowledge of what life and working conditions was like for miners in their local community during the 1970s-80s and how this compares to the lifestyle and working conditions of miners during the Victorian period. Work in Design and Technology will enable the children to build on their work on structures from Year 2 and involve the children using saws, joining techniques and creating a pulley to design, make and evaluate their very own mine shaft.