Year 3
Year 3
2026-2027
St. Gilbert's Mission Statement
Welcome to Year 3!
Welcome to Key Stage 2!
This is a very special year for our Year 3 children, who will be joining the Sacramental programme at church and making their First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion in Spring and Summer. There is a link to the Parish Website and Sacramental programme below.
Our school is rooted in our Gospel values of Resilience, Faith, Courage, Compassion, Forgiveness and Fullness of Life. Our children and staff live out these values every day.
The children are witness to their faith by worshipping God every day in prayer, every week in class worship, whole school worship and celebrating the children and their values every week. Each term the children will visit church and worship God with their community. Each week the children will listen to the Gospel and have a chance to reflect on the message of the values in their own class.
I can't wait to join the children on their journey of faith this year!
Mr. Martin
Class Representatives
AUTUMN 1 (2026) Class Worship
AUTUMN 1 (2026) Computing - Digital Networks
AUTUMN 1 (2026) Computing - Digital Art
Class Worship - Celebrating Our Lady's Birthday
AUTUMN 1 (2026) - P.E. (Fundamentals)
Sports Day
First Holy Communion
Manchester Museum Trip
P.E. - Lacrosse
P.E. - Tennis
Maths - measuring height
First Reconciliation
World Book Day
P.E. (Spring 1) Dance
Visit from St. Patrick's High School about Reconciliation
Autumn Term Reading, Writing and Maths Stars
Christmas Party
Santa Dash
D.T. Marble Runs
P.E. (Autumn 2) Gymnastics
Talk Money Day and Careers Day
Dance-along-athon
Science - Autumn 1 - The Skeleton
French - Autumn 1
Music - Autumn 1 - Ukelele
P.E. - Autumn 1 - Fundamentals
Year 3
Class of 2025-2026
Spring 1 Science
During Science this Half Term, the children have been looking at soils. We conducted a Science Experiment to see how absorbent different soils are. The children tested how much water, peat, sandy, chalky and clay soil would absorb. The children then recorded these results in a table.
Spring 1 DT
The children's topic this Half Term was tie-dying. The children started the unit off, by looking at using natural materials, such as avocado and turmeric, to dye fabric. The children also worked on their cutting skills to cut their bookmark fabric, and then wrapped it up using rubber bands to add their dye.
PE Spring 1
During PE, the children have been exploring traveling to lots of different places through Dance. The children danced to the music 'A trip to' and chose lots of different places to visit, such as the jungle, the beach or even the North Pole!
Talk Money Day
The children enjoyed our Talk Money Day and dressing up as what they would like to be when they grow up. We did lots of work based on money, and discussed how we can get money, how it makes us feel and how important it is to spend money on needs rather than wants. We also had visitors from different careers, which the children enjoyed learning about.
PE Autumn 2
We have been learning gymnastics during our PE sessions in Autumn 2. The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning different shapes and how to utilise these in stretches, jumps and rolls.
Music
The children have really enjoyed Music this term. We have been learning how to play the ukulele. The children have learnt the features of the ukulele, how to play chords C, F, D minor and D major. The children have been learning the 'down, up' strumming pattern and played along to the songs 'Can't stop the Feeling' and 'Don't Worry Be Happy'. In addition, the children also start the lesson by singing. Here, they have been working on pitch, volume and tempo. Year 3 cannot wait to carry on learning the ukulele next term!
French
The children have enjoyed starting to learn French. So far we have focused on greetings, feelings, numbers and dates of the month. The children even dressed as a French person for European Day!
Maths
During Maths this term we have looked at Place Value and Addition and Subtraction. The children have enjoyed finding different methods to add and subtract numbers.
PE Autumn 1
During Autumn 1, the children practised their Fundamental skills. Here they perfected their running and jumping skills and how to complete this correctly. We enjoyed incorporating these skills into lots of PE games.
DT Autumn 1
Our DT project for Autumn 1 was rollercoasters. We learnt about how rollercoasters work, who designs a rollercoaster and why they use certain materials. We then designed our own marble run and brought it to life!