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Cedar Class 
Year 3
Welcome Cedar Class 2025-26!
Cedar Class 2024-25, Summer Term 3
Welcome to Year 3. Please take a look at the knowledge organiser for all of the brilliant subjects we will be learning about in the first term of the school year.
I hope you all have a brilliant term - Ms HartYearly Overview Grid
As part of our Curriculum review this year, we have been able to map out the learning every class will be covering across the school year. This grid should give you a rough idea of the areas of learning we will be covering throughout Year 3, with each term reinforced with a new knowledge organiser at the start of the term. The grid, sets out all the lessons we teach as well as the termly Enquiry Question. Please be aware that our curriculum is ever evolving and we may well make further changes to the content as the year progresses. Visit the Curriculm section of the website for more information regarding our new Enquiry Curriculum.
This Term's Knowledge Organiser:
y3 cedar class knowledge organiser term 3.pdf
Knowledge Organisers from previous terms:
y3 cedar class knowledge organiser term 2.pdf
y3 cedar class knowledge organiser term 1.pdf
Learning in Term 1
To start off our year of learning in Cedar Class, we have started learning all about friendships and what makes a good friend as PSHE (personal, social, health and economic education), is our subject in the spotlight this term and our class enquiry question is: ‘What does it mean to be a good friend?’ This is in line with our whole school WOW question (West Oxford Wonder Question): ‘What does kindness look like?’
Kindness Week will also be taking place at the end of September and our class, along with the whole school will be focused on how we can be kind to others.
We have also started to learn about life in the Stone Age as we investigate to answer our History enquiry question: ‘How has daily life changed from the Stone Age to today?’ Life in the Stone Age was so challenging! We have been writing about it, discussing it and creating pieces of art and DT (Design Technology) inspired by their way of life.
In English we have started reading UG: Stone Age Boy Genius, and will be reading Stone Age Boy soon. Both are great books that help us to learn about what life may have been like in the Stone Age in a fun way while also looking at comics, fictional texts and historical fiction. We will be writing in character while writing diary entries, creating acrostic poems, retelling stories in our writing and creating our own comics.
In music we are having fun learning to sing and chant like Vikings, as well as learning about staying safe online and soon how to play Times Table Rockstars which allows us to play games in order to help learn our times tables. You can find out more about it here: https://ttrockstars.com/
In maths, we have been learning about numbers up to 1000. We have used Base Tens (also known as Dienes), Place Value Counters, 100 grids, Part-Whole Models, Bar Models and more to help us take a deep look at number bonds to 100 then 1000, place value, partitioning them and then moving on to addition and subtraction.
In PE we have been building up our football skills and will be learning about basketball and other ball games while working on agility, accuracy, teamwork and ball control.
Pictures from the start of the year coming soon...
The School Reading List
Suggested reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
(From the website The School Reading List, not a list directly from WOCPS)
Books for Year 3 – looking for a great book for the classroom, the school library or your child’s collection? The following list contains 50 short chapter books, more advanced picture books and rhyming verse to appeal to children aged 7-8 in lower Key Stage 2 of UK primary schools. There is a range of recommended reads suitable for all ability ranges within this age group, including titles for both reluctant and more independent readers. In all our hand-picked lists, we feature books to appeal to a wide range of interests and situations, including classroom reading corners, school libraries, book clubs, learning at home, reading and discussing using zoom and teams, reading buddies and first free readers. This list of reading suggestions for seven-year-olds is curated by our team of teachers and school librarians, is reviewed termly and includes stories by a range of authors and spans a variety of genres.
