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TheSchoolRun.com closure date

As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

In particular, we suggest downloading:

You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.

We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Year 3 English Progress checks

Y3 English Progress checks, TheSchoolRun
Our Year 3 English Progress Checks are designed to help you understand if your child has grasped key areas of literacy for Y3, and to help you identify any topics they might need more practice with. Three tests, each tailored to one of the school terms, are included, as well as answers to help you evaluate your child's work.
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Keystage:  KS2, Year 3

Our Y3 English Progress checks, prepared by a KS2 teacher, will help you support their literacy learning at home.

The tests cover spelling, grammar, punctuation, handwriting and text-level work.


The Progress checks are designed to follow TheSchoolRun's Learning Journey for that particular term. Please note: they cannot and will not necessarily follow what your child’s teacher is doing at school this week / term, as teachers tend to choose to cover objectives in an order that they feel suits their class. Therefore, don’t worry if your child cannot complete certain questions; the point of the Progress checks is to help parents identify where children might need extra help and practice.

Y3 English objectives explained

By the end of the school year children should be confident with the following:

Y3 reading

  • Applying their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes to read aloud and understand the meaning of new words they come across
  • Reading a range of fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction texts
  • Re-telling stories orally (out loud)
  • Performing poems and play scripts, showing understanding through intonation and action
  • Inferring characters' feelings though their actions, justifying their inference with evidence
  • Identifying and summarising the main ideas in a text

Y3 writing

  • understanding how to spell words with a variety of prefixes and suffixes
  • becoming more confident in joining their handwriting, increasing its legibility and quality
  • using a wider range of connectives
  • starting to use speech marks (inverted commas) to punctuate direct speech
  • creating settings, characters and plot in narratives using a range of descriptive language
  • using organisational devices such as bullet points and sub-headings
  • assessing and improving their writing

For more information about what your child learns in Year 3 English read our parents' guide; you can also browse all our Y3 English worksheets or follow our Learning Journey for Y3 English.