Year 3 Autumn 1 2026

Hello and welcome to Year 3.

We hope you have all had an enjoyable summer and are ready for what we are sure will be a hugely successful year. This half term, our topic is ‘Me and My World’. We will take part in two walks around our local area to explore the features and landmarks around where we live. One walk will be to the Bluebell Woods and we will use compass points to follow a route. This will help us create our own map when back at school.  Our second walk will be to Bulwell as we will be writing about what a great place Bulwell is to live and making leaflets to advertise Bulwell.

We will be learning all about healthy food and will be designing our own sandwiches in our Design and technology lessons.

The artist we will be studying is Andy Warhol and we will be creating our own mini portraits in his ‘pop art’ style.

We expect children in Year 3 to read at least four times a week at home. Reading rewards and stars will be given out for children who have their reads written in their comment book and signed by a parent/carer.

In addition to this, we ask that children practise their times tables recall (2’s, 5’s, 10’s, 3’s and 4’s) We will be doing P.E. on Thursdays so please come to school wearing P.E. kit (white t-shirt or polo shirt, black shorts or jogging bottoms, trainers and a sweatshirt or hoody) on these days. This will mean that you won’t need to carry bags of kit between home and school.

Parents, if you have any problems or want to discuss any issues with any of the teachers, please write in your child’s comment book as these will be checked regularly. Alternatively, please contact us using the year 3 email mailbox: year3@hempshillhall.nottingham.sch.uk .

We look forward to working with you all to make this an enjoyable and rewarding year.

Miss Yazigi, Miss Slaney, Miss Cunliffe and Miss Gormley.