Spring 2 Week 5

Friday 28th March 2025

To finish our learning in Project on Tribal Tales the children looked at Stonehenge and got to build their own version out of clay. We used the left over clay to build Easter baskets and we look forward to decorating these next week.

In maths, we looked at how to calculate the perimeters of regular and irregular shapes. In English, we continued our creative writing by working on using fronted adverbials and conjunctions.

In Science, we reflected on our learning for this term and we have all thoroughly enjoyed growing our bean plants.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team

Spring 2 Week 4

Friday 21st March 2025

We have been exhausted this week completing our Spring term checkpoints. The children have all done very well and we look forward to sharing those results with you soon.

In PE, we have continued our Dance work adding emotion to our moves to a piece of music whilst we pretended we were an earthquake. Then, in basketball we have continued work on developing our passing using chest pass, bounce pass and overhead pass. We even learnt about double dribbling and how we are not allowed to do this in Basketball!

Wishing you a lovely weekend

The Year 3 Team

Spring 2 Week 3

Friday 14th March 2025

The children have a very exciting week in English as they have developed their creative writing and used subordinating conjunctions. They have looked at using a thesaurus to find better words to improve their work. Our maths topic was comparing and orders fractions and looking at equivalent fractions and the children did really well in this topic.

In Science, we have developed our observational drawings looking at different fruits. In Project we have looked at how houses developed through the Prehistoric ages. Both classes started their dance topic and enjoyed moving to music that was about weather. Outside the children have polished their bounce passes and chest passes in basketball and they are getting better at getting the ball in the nets! Musically, the children enjoyed playing both the boomwhackers and the glockenspiels.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team

Spring 2 Week 2

Friday 7th March 2025

What a busy and exciting week we've had in Year 3!

Our first exciting event was our trip to Celtic Harmony Camp where the children got to spend a day in the Stone Age. They learnt how to make fire, how tools were made using stone, they went hunting and gathering and even built their own shelter!

On Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day and it was great fun seeing the children dressed up as their favourite book characters. We took part in a live quiz about football and books, made bookmarks and they created lovely art pieces based on the book 'The Train Ride'.

We managed to fit in English and Maths lessons as well. In English, the children finished their newspaper reports and have started writing character descriptions. In Maths, we recalled our multiplication and division facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables.

We wish you all a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team

Spring 2 Week1

Friday 28th February 2025

After a wet and cold half term, the children came back to some really exciting topics across the curriculum. In English, we have started our next film unit, Pigeon Impossible, which is the hilarious story of a pigeon confronting a spy for his doughnut. As the story unfolds, the pigeon adn the spy get into lots of sticky situations and ended up firing a rocket! The children are building up a newspaper report which they will finalise next week.

In maths, this week's topic has been statistics and we have looked at interpreting data on tally charts, pictograms and bar charts. In science, the children enjoyed setting up their own experiments to test the best conditions to grow plants in and had to set up a fair test. We have also introduced our new project called Tribal Tales in prepartion for our visit next week to the Celtic Harmony Camp.

Rain stopped PE on Monday and the whole of Year 3 got together for a fitness session in the hall - but on Thursday we managed to start our new unit Dance and Basketball.

Wishing you a lovely weekend

The Year 3 team

Spring 1 Week 6

Friday 14th February 2025

And just like that we have come to the end of another busy term!

This week the children worked hard to finish off their work from the term.

In English, they wrote a non-chronological report in the form of a fact file about the alien from our core text 'Lights at Cotton Rock'. It has been a lovely unit of work and the children put in so much effort in their writing. We are all seeing so much progress since we started in September.

In Maths, the children were amazing at using column subtraction.

In Science, they reflected on their learning about habitats and summarized the important messages by creating lovely posters to raise awareness about the issues faced by animals, plants and habitats and how people can help.

In their Geography project, the children learnt a new skill of drawing sketch maps. They did an amazing job at turning birds eye view images of London and St Petersburg into their own sketch map using different symbols and colours to represent the different landscape features.

We hope you all have a restful weekend and a great half term!

The Year 3 Team

Spring 1 Week 5

Friday 7th February 2025

Phew! We have made it to the end of another busy week.

Well done to both Ducks and Swans for their fantastic assemblies this week. The children were simply brilliant learning their words for their lines, their songs and poems. Their performances made everbody very proud of them.

Whilst prepping for their assemblies, in the core subjects the children have continued to work hard in maths on adding three-digit numbers using both the expanded method and the more formal column method.  In English, the children have looked at DADWAVERS and using it to start their sentences in interesting ways using description, adjectives, dialogue, where (prepositions), adverbs, verbs, estimation of time, rhetorical questions or similes.

In Science, we carried out an experiment to see the effects of deforestation on the land and the impact of erosion. In Project, the children have had the chance to look at Dams across the world and have looked at the advantages and disadvantages for people, animals and the environment.

Thursday saw the children in their rock idol outfits ready for a day of maths activities to celebrate Maths Day. They looked amazing and the children got the opportunity to work together in teams to make their own versions of Rocky Road biscuits; as well as play some maths games.

Well done Year 3!

Have a lovely weekend

Year 3 Team

Spring 1 Week 4

Friday 31st January 2025

Another hard-working week for the children in Year 3.

In English, we started exploring news reports. We identified the features of articles and had a go at writing our own, using the events of 'Lights on Cotton Rock' as inspiration.

In Maths, we worked really hard when measuring length using centimetres and milimetres. We found converting between the two challenging but we were resilient learners. By the end of the week, we were able to apply our skills to addition and subtraction problems and reasoning too.

In Project, we explored different uses of rivers and the impacts they bring to people and nature. Next week, we will be exploring dams.

We also continued to practice for our class assembly next week - we are really looking forward to presenting these to you next week!

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team

Spring 1 Week 3

Friday 24th January 2025

The children are loving the book 'Lights on Cotton Rock' and this week they have worked on writing descriptions, solving dilemma, using speech marks in a conversation and writing open questions. All of this and they did a session using our Reading VIPERS for our comprehension lesson.

In maths, we have revisited fractions - and have linked fractions with dividing by the denominator; we have ordered fractions from the smallest to the largest and we have added fractions to a number line.

In Science, we have set up an experiment to see the effects of climate change. We have learnt about how the ozone layer traps the greenhouse gases. In Project, we have looked at erosion and deposition in a  river. 

Both classes are working hard on their assemblies and are looking forward to sharing these with you soon.

Best wishes

The Year 3 team

Spring 1 Week 2

Friday 17th January 2025

Year 3 has conducted some amazing learning this week!

In English, we continued to explore our new text 'Lights on Cotton Rock'. The children have written lovely descriptions, full of expanded noun phrases, time adverbials, prepositional phrases and even similes. In pairs, they also created their own comic strip based on a page from the book.

In Maths, we developed our understanding of multiples of 2, 4 and 8, as well as using those to find division facts.

In Science, we started learning about how animals and plants adapt to live in their habitats.

In project, we explored rivers around the world and the different features of a river, found in the upper, middle and lower courses.

Have a lovely weekend!

Spring 1 Week1 

Friday 10th January 2025

Welcome back to the new term and happy new year to you all!

We are all excited for yet another busy term and are looking forward to starting on our class assemblies.

We have started a new picture book in English called 'Lights on Cotton Rock' and we are exploring how the children feel about the little girl hunting for aliens.

In maths, we have covered our topic on shape - learning about their names, their properties and their lines of symmetry. The children have been challenged to cut out symmetrical shapes from the centre of bits of paper which they discovered was harder than it looks.

We were very lucky with the weather and started our hockey lessons outside and our gymnastics lesson extending our floorwork from last term  working on unison and cannon. 

The children have enjoyed their introduction to their new topics in Science and Project and look forward to telling you more about these soon.

Best Wishes

The Year 3 team

Autumn 2 Week 7

Friday 20th December 2024

What an exhausting week - in between all of the Christmas performances, and activities such as Christmas dinner, the children have worked so hard to finish off all of their topics - reflecting on their learning in both Science and Project.

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas.

The Year 3 team

Autumn 2 Week 6

Friday 13th December 2024

We all looked amazing this week in our costumes during our dress rehearsals this week - the children have worked hard on their singing and sounded amazing when they sang for the public at Asdas and they have learnt their lines well ready for our performances next week. We look forward to sharing all our hard work with you next Tuesday and Wednesday.

In English, we have completed our unaided writing on finishing the story of Mr Penguin off from the point he finds the treasure. In maths, we have revisited Place Value and used these skills with money, comparing amounts of money and ordering 3 digit numbers.

Wishing you a lovely weekend

Best wishes

The Year 3 team

Autumn 2 Week 5

Friday 6th December 2024

We've come to the end of another busy week!

Our Christmas production is on full swing as we approach our presentation dates.

The children have been working hard to remember their lines and are doing lovely singing too. Next week, on Monday, we'll have our first presentation singing at ASDA.

In English this week, we have focused on information texts and writing a museum guide inspired by the Museum of Extraordinary Objects from our book Mr Penguin and the Lost Treasure. Next week, the children will be writing their own ending to the story, trying to match the writing style to that of the author.

In Maths, we're been recapping how to the tell the time on an analogue clock and then order time on a timeline. The children found this to be a little challenging, so we'll continue to practice this in the future. Next week, we will be focusing on number and place value.

We hope you all have a great weekend!

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 2 Week 4

Friday 29th November 2024

After an exhausting week last week, the children have been reflecting on their answers and we have gone through some of the papers in class. We look forward to sharing the results of their checkpoints at the forthcoming parents evenings.

In Science, we have looked at transparent, translucent and opaque items and we have made shadow puppets. In Project, we have looked at how earthquakes are created and the impact they have on both humans and nature.

In English, we have had a week of reading comprehension  using our VIPERS (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarise).  In maths, we have been superstars learning and linking our 2, 4 and 8 times tables.

Best Wishes

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 2 Week 3

Friday 22nd November 2024

What a busy week we've had!

The children have just completed their first set of Year 3 checkpoints and we have been completely blow away at how well they have done. The children have worked extremely hard in each of their papers and have shown how much progress they have already made since the start of the year. Well done to all of you!

In project this week, we learnt about tsunamis, what they are, how they are formed and their impact on people and environments.

In Science , we learnt about reflective surfaces and we tested different materials to see which ones were reflective and not reflective. The children then applied their understanding by designing an outfit to keep them safe in the dark.

Our Christmas rehearsals are now in full swing. This week we got together with Year 4 to start running through the songs and the script. Well done to everyone who has already memorised their lines!

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 2 Week 2

Friday 14th November 2024

Wow! What a fabulous second week back!

We carried on our wonderful work in English learning to identify the rhyming patterns in Quatrains and then we used this to structure our own poems about Superheroes. In maths, we have started work on our 4 times tables - looking at using doubles to find the answers. We aklso looked at using the inverse operation to solve number problems.

In Project, we have identified the different parts of a mountain and used atlases to identify mountain ranges in the United Kingdom and across the world. In Science, we have sorted light sources into natural and artificial light sources.

In Spanish, we have continued the story of Little Red Riding Hood and learnt how to say parts of the body in Spanish. We have continued our work in music learning to play the notes D and E on the glockenspiel and we have leant about notes that have different lengths.

We have braved the cold in PE and got outside to brush up our Rugby skills, learning to hold the ball correctly and how to pass the ball. Indoors, we are dancing to the Dance of the Knights, moving like animals - the hall was full of elephants, giraffes and monkeys.

Best Wishes

The Year 3 team

Autumn 2 - Week 1

Friday 8th November 2024

Welcome back everyone!

After a whole week at home, we are back in school and have taken part in some amazing learning.

In English, we started our poetry unit and this week our focus was on kennings. The children did a brilliant job and had lots of fun creating their own monsters and writing super exciting kennings about them.

In Maths, we worked on finding right angles, following directions and comparing angles. Although we found this a bit tricky at the start of the week, by the end we were flying through the tasks.

In Project, we have started out new Geography topic called Tremors which is all about volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. We are sure it is going to be a very exciting one!

In Science, we also have a new topic called Shining the Light. This week we explored why and how we need the light to be able to see in the dark. We also had very interesting discussions about light sources and whether you could fix a burnt out lamp (no, you can't unfortunately).

In Spanish we are learning about the Little Red Riding Hood story, obviously, and the children have been amazing in learning some of our key vocabulary.

In Music, we are learning to play the glockenspiel. It has been a lovely lesson where everyone engaged and managed to play note E and D and even played duets.

From the Year 3 team, we wish you all a lovely and restful weekend!

Autumn 1 Week 8

Friday 25th October 2024

Phew! We made it to half term after a very busy week reviewing the term's Project and Science topics and we realised just how much we have learnt in the first eight weeks of Year 3. In English, we have really enjoyed planning and writing our biographies about Mary Anning and we impressed our parents with how much we know about the famous fossil hunter in our parent lessons. In Maths, we have sharpened up our subtracting skills and applied them to word problems. We have started our Christmas songs and can't believe how quick some of them are, so we are going to be working very hard to try to fit all of those words into the tune.

Wishing you all a lovely half term holiday.

Best Wishes

The Year 3 team.

Autumn 1 Week 7

Friday 18th October 2024

We have been super busy as we head towards half term! In maths we have used an empty number line to add on in 1s, 10s and 100s and then we have applied our skills to word problems. In English, we have started a new topic on Biographies and have looked at the organsiational features of this type of text. We have enjoyed doing some group activities to organise information and we got to interview each other to gather information. In Science we have reviewed our topic of, Our Planet Rocks and we are now looking forward to our next topic. In Project, we have learnt about how the Olympic Games started in Ancient Greece and we have used primary sources to look for clues about them. We also had a lot of fun in PE this week as we got together as a year group to do our challenges for our Sponsored event. So we are all exhausted!

Best Wishes

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 1 Week 6

Friday 11th October 2024

Another busy week! 

In English, we have really enjoyed our book called Flotsam and we have written our own stiories based on one of the magical and mysterious photographs found on a camera that was carried on the waves. In maths we have been busy getting to grips with converting kilograms to grams; reading scales and scaling up recipes. In project we have learnt about Hydna of Scione and how she defeated the Persian Navy. In science we have been doing an experiment to investigate which soil was the best soaker and which was the best drainer. In Spanish, we have finished our first unit of learning called 'I am learning Spanish' and we can now introduce ourselves in Spanish and we have been introduced to both the numbers to ten and some of the colours.

Best Wishes

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 1 Week 5

Friday 4th October 2024

Another busy week! 

In English, we have been using adjectives and adverbials to improve our writing about our book, Flotsam. We have written description sof the pictures and considered the thoughts and feelings of our main character, In maths, we have been superstars learning about fractions of a set and we even managed to add and subtract fractions that have the same denominator.

In science, we were soil detectives and we look at soil under a microscope and saw how different soils were made up of soil, stones, organic matter - we even got to see a millipede which escaped onto Ms Davies' desk!

In project we have learnt about Alexander the Great and how he conquered lots of countries having never lost a battle. We also learnt that he named 70 cities after himself and even one after his horse! In music, we have been very pleased with our singing and think we sound amazing!

Best Wishes

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 1 - Week 4

Friday 27th September 2024

Wow! How quick another week has gone!

In maths, we have been impressing our teachers with our counting in multiples of 2, 3, 5 and 10 and applying these skills to multiplication problems. Next week, we are going to be looking at fractions. In English, we have finished off our work on The Dragon Slayer with an assessed piece of writing to check where we have got to in our learning. We then began our new text, Flotsam and we did some fantastic descriptive writing and we will continue to develop our independent writing skills next week. In project, we learnt about using primary and secondary resources to support our historical research and we had a go at writing our own fact file about life in Ancient Greece. In science, we enjoyed learning about how fossils formed and who Mary Anning was. We had a go at doing a flow chart to show the formation of fossils and made our own fossils in clay using shells and patterned stones. Also we got very excited because we got to design our Christmas cards which we cannot wait for you to see!

Best Wishes

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 1 - Week 3

Friday 20th September 2024

We have had another busy week in Year 3!

In maths, we have been learning about the properties of 3D shapes and how the different features help us work out the name of each shape. Next week, we will focus on multiplication and division.

In English, we have continued to explore the tale of Tarragon the dragon slayer. This week the children explored using verbs and adverbs as sentence openers and how to write a chronological recount of an event. The children are continuing to work on their independence and next week will be writing a short assessed piece.

In project, we learnt about democracy and discussed how it started in ancient Greece and what it looks like nowadays in our modern society. We also explored other similarities and differences between life in ancient Greece and life now.

In science, we have investigated how different types of rocks are used for construction. We researched pictures of local buildings and tried to figure out what type of rock was used to build them. We also learnt about how bricks are made.

Keep up the super work Year 3!

Best Wishes

The Year 3 Team

Autumn 1 Week 2

Friday 13th September 2024

What a fantastic start to the year we have had in Year 3! In maths, we have been partitioning numbers and ordering them. We have also looked at using an empty number line to both add and subtract numbers up to 1000. Next week, we will focus on the properties of shape. In English, our film focus is on the tale of The Dragon Slayer. The children have experimented with using descriptive language such as expanded noun phrases, prepositions and our senses to write description of both characters and settings. The children are learning to write independently and are focussing on their spelling of the high frequency words.  . Our project topic for this term is ‘Gods and Mortals’. We began our investigation into Greek Gods and Goddesses by learning about the twelve most powerful gods. The children had fun creating their own Greek gods in project and looking at how the Greeks worshiped their Gods. For science, we have been detectives and looked at identifying rocks and dividing them into igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks – but we all thought the vinegar smelt very bad in our experiment! In music, we have impressed our teachers with our singing of a song called Let Your Spirit Fly! Our RE, this half term, is comparing Islam with Christianity. Our PE topics this half term are Dodgeball and gymnastics. Well done Year 3 – you have been fabulous!

Best Wishes

The Year 3 Team