Year 3
Year 3 news
The year 3 team for 2025/26 consists of Mr Letts (3G) and Mrs Nagra (3H).
Year 3 PE days will be Thursday and Friday for the autumn term. The children will visit the library with their class teacher on a Monday.
We are very pleased to welcome you to year 3, the start of your KS2 journey at Milby Primary School. There are many interesting learning topics and exciting extra-curricular opportunities lined up for you. We can't wait to get started!
As the children begin their time in year 3, they will be becoming history detectives through the gripping topic of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. Up until Christmas, pupils will discover how people lived in prehistoric times, including the role of hunter-gatherers and the introduction of roundhouses. As part of their history learning, children will investigate historical artefacts with an analytical approach, making judgements and inferences about this fascinating period of world history. Time travelling to the Bronze Age and Iron Age, the children will compare how life was different, particularly focusing on weapons, food collection and living conditions. If you love spears and cave art, this unit of learning is definitely for you!
Want to get ahead in preparation for the autumn term? You are sure to impress your teacher by gleaning a few facts from the links below:
Stonehenge is one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Find out about it here: Stonehenge
Love a cartoon? What can you find out from this one?:
(A clearer version is attached as a pdf underneath the image)
Curriculum Summary
Knowledge Organiser
This half term's homework
The first homework sent home will be Homework 3
Homework is set on a Friday, and is due in the following Thursday. Children should be reading to an adult at least three times per week for at least 15/20 minutes each time. This must be recorded in your child's reading record.
In addition to this, the children can develop their skills with a range of websites and apps the school has subscribed to. The children should be regularly practising their times tables knowledge through TTRockstars. In addition, you could play Hit the Button online or download the White Rose Maths app.
To support our pupils with their spelling abilities, all children have been given login information for EdShed. Online books, with a range of opportunities to develop reading and inference skills, can be accessed through Bug Club.
Handwriting
Learning showcase 2025-2026
Stone Age Settlers - Compton Verney 🦣
We have had a superb visit today! We experienced a variety of engaging activities, including making Stone Age dough, using a flint and steel to make sparks, building a wall using wattle and daub, designing some cave art, crafting clay pots and exploring a range of prehistoric artefacts. The children were able to showcase their knowledge from history lessons as well as glean new information from our knowledgeable guides. The children behaved impeccably and were a credit to Milby!
Gymnastics jumps 🤸🏽♂️
It was 3H’s turn to challenge themselves with some gymnastic routines this week. The children practised their jumps, in a range of fashions, whilst trying to land on their feet! Great job 3H!
Gymnastics sequences 🤸🏽♂️
Simone Biles and Max Whitlock would be proud, as year 3 have been creating gymnastics sequences this half term. After taking a few weeks to perfect the pike, tuck and straddle positions and practise how to complete a log roll, teddy bear roll and shoulder stand, the children were ready to join everything together. What fun we had this afternoon!!
Muscle models ✋🏼
Year 3 have been learning about muscle and bones in their science lessons this half term. We had a superb time making our own muscle models, demonstrating how muscles pull on bones in order to make our body move. Tremendous determination and care was taken throughout, and the children were very proud of their finished models. Check out 3G’s muscle models below!
How long ago was the Stone Age? 🧻
At the beginning of our exciting Stone Age Britain topic, the children loved using toilet rolls to demonstrate how long ago prehistory actually was. With each sheet of toilet paper representing 1000 years of time, the children made some excellent guesses as to when the Stone Age took place. They were astonished by how many years we had to go back...! Check out this picture of 3H's historical journey.
