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title: "Year 3"
url: "https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/year-3"
school: "Meynell Nursery & Primary School"
---

# Year 3

## **Welcome to Year 3**

Year 3 at Meynell is an exciting and important step where children begin to **explore** learning in deeper, more independent ways. It’s a year filled with curiosity, growing confidence and new opportunities to build the skills they need for the next stage of their journey.

Each day offers meaningful, hands‑on experiences across the curriculum — from reading and writing to practical maths, creative tasks and discovering more about the world around us. Children are encouraged to ask questions, solve problems and take pride in their progress as they work together and learn from one another.

Our Year 3 classroom is warm, encouraging and full of enthusiasm. We support pupils to try their best, be kind and **believe** in their abilities, celebrating effort and achievement in all its forms.

As they grow in independence, Year 3 helps pupils to **aspire**, aim high and **achieve** personal goals, building resilience and confidence for the years ahead.

 What We're Learning This Half Term

#### **History**

- Who were the ancient Egyptians, and why is ancient Egypt considered to be an early civilisation?

#### **Art**

- Observational Drawing – Plants

#### **PSHE (Jigsaw)**

- Relationships

#### **Music**

- Bringing us together

#### **French (MFL)**

- REVISIT – Ask for/give name
- Revise numbers
- Colours

#### **PE**

- Outdoor Adventurous Activities (OAA)

#### **Computing**

- Computing systems and networks: Journey inside a computer

#### **RE**

- How can Brahman be everywhere and in everything?

 Curriculum Overview

 Year 3 Curriculum Overview  162 KB  [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/meynell-primary-school/files/documents/Meynell/Y3/y3-curriculum-overview.pdf)

### Our Curriculum

- [Curriculum Overview](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/curriculum-overview)
- [Our Classes](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes)
    - [Reception](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/reception)
    - [Year 1](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/year-1)
    - [Year 2](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/year-2)
    - [Year 3](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/year-3)
    - [Year 4](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/year-4)
    - [Year 5](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/year-5)
    - [Year 6](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/our-classes/year-6)
- [Powerful Moments](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/powerful-moments)
- [Curriculum Detail](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/curriculum-detail)
- [Early Years Foundation Stage](https://meynell.school/our-curriculum/early-years-foundation-stage)

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### Meynell Nursery & Primary School

 Meynell Road
Sheffield
S5 8GN

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