Year 3

Lilac and Alder

The children in Year 3 have made a wonderful start to Key Stage Two. We are very proud of how well they have settled in and got used to new routines.

The highlight of our term came towards the end when we donned our red noses and extraordinarily large shoes and became part of the circus. Fun was had by all as we learned a circus act worth of tricks and skills that would leave Krusty the Clown feeling jealous.

There was no clowning around however when it came to celebrating “World Mental Health Day”, and it was a delight to see so many shades of yellow in support of this great cause. This really helped to brighten our day!

We’ve also been extremely fortunate to enjoy Forest School. The children have absolutely loved exploring our grounds and have worked together fantastically well to help create the most wonderful things from what nature has given us. However, we can only apologize for how messy they may or may not have gotten whilst doing this.

On top of this, we also got to experience the joy and wonder that comes from being delivered croissants as part of “European Languages Day”. It was such a joy to hear some of the children share the languages they know and teach us teachers a thing or two.

In English, we have enjoyed reading ‘The boy who ran away from the circus and joined the library’ and writing newspaper reports in which we reported the mysterious disappearance of Fizzlebert Stump.

In music, we have enjoyed beginning to learn to play the djembe drum. We are looking forward to learning new rhythms and tunes as the year progresses. We hope to welcome you to a concert later in the year.

Science has involved investigating forces and magnets. We have discovered that forces involve a movement and without them we would be forever stationary and unable to speak. The horror! On top of this, we investigated what materials were magnetic and had a wonderful time exploring how metals were attracted to magnets.

Thank you to everyone who came to our Harvest Festival here at the school. We are sure you will agree that the children spoke and sung with confidence and enthusiasm. We are very proud of how brave they were to stand up in front of so many people!

Overview

year 3 curriculum overview.pdf

 

Useful Information

• Child Protection Leaflet May 26 download_for_offline
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• Grove Handbook - Sept 26 download_for_offline
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• Leaflet School Open Days 2026 27 002 download_for_offline
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• Parent Information Evening Presentation 2026 27 download_for_offline
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• Peer on Peer Abuse download_for_offline
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• Stop and Drop Leaflet download_for_offline
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Year 3 Topic Webs

• Yr 3 Term 1 Topic Web download_for_offline
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