In reading lessons, pupils continue to develop their fluency and reading skills through a wide range of genres, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Pupils develop core reading skills through the range of texts they read:
When writing, children become an author themselves! Writing units are linked to the texts that children read during their reading lessons. Children develop their knowledge of prepositions, conjunctions, subordinate clauses and direct speech. They learn how to evaluate and edit their writing, assessing the effectiveness of their own and other’s texts. Children produce texts across fiction, non-fiction and poetry linked to a range of topics and themes.
In maths, children become increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations including number facts and the concept of place value. Children develop efficient written and mental methods of calculation and perform these accurately with increasingly large whole numbers. Children develop their ability to solve a range of problems, including those with fractions, whilst developing mathematical reasoning. Children’s knowledge of multiplication and division facts continue to grow as they learn the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables.
Children, at the end of Year 3, are well-equipped for their next stage of learning in Year 4.