Year 3 Spring Blog

28th March 2025Sumaiya Khan

English

In English, we have been exploring different narratives with dialogue and understanding its importance in bringing stories to life. We’ve focused on using inverted commas correctly to show when someone is speaking. We’ve also learnt how to use question marks and exclamation marks in dialogue, like “What’s your name?” or “That’s amazing!”.

To up-level our writing, we practiced using alternative words for “said,” like whispered and shouted, and added adverbs like excitedly or angrily to show how characters speak. We also discovered the rule “new speaker, new line” to make speech easier to follow.

For inspiration, we watched videos such as Catch a Lot and The Way Back Home, which had no dialogue. Children enjoyed role playing what the characters might say and created their own conversations. For our final hot write, children are reading the book The Invisible by Tom Percival and writing a dialogue between two characters. This is a fantastic opportunity for them to showcase all the new skills they’ve learned.

Reading

In our reading lessons, we’ve been diving into the book See Inside Ancient Egypt, which links to our topic on Ancient Egypt. This book is helping to deepen our understanding of ancient civilisation. Throughout our reading sessions, we’ve enjoyed doing a variety of activities that have strengthened our reading skills. We’ve made predictions about what will happen next, explored new vocabulary, and practiced skimming and scanning to find key information. We’ve also answered comprehension questions to check our understanding and worked on summarising what we’ve read. We will soon begin looking at a poetry unit, Stars with Flaming Tails by Valerie Bloom.

Maths

We have covered so many maths units since the last blog it has been brilliant to see the children’s progress this half term! We started out with Fractions and the children did great. It was amazing to see them develop their understanding of what is usually a really tricky subject in maths. But the Year 3 team are all incredibly impressed with how all three classes have done in that unit. We have since started our unit on Mass and Capacity, the children have been working really hard and have already started to apply their knowledge from outside of school to the work in the classroom. We enjoyed taking part in World Maths Day and had fun using shapes to create our very own TTRockstars!

 

Science

This half term, we have taken a deep dive into our unit on Light and Shadows. The children have enjoyed exploring different light sources and going around the school to identify them. We’ve also looked at the importance of sunscreen and how it protects us from the sun. Did you know light travels in straight lines? The children have been studying the journey light takes from the light source to the object and then to our eyes. Additionally, we have been learning about different materials (transparent, translucent, and opaque) and how their properties are affected by light. In the last couple of lessons, the children will be identifying reflectors and learning how they help keep us safe.

Wider curriculum area

We have also enjoyed taking part in and dressing up for World Book Day! The children participated in lots of fun activities throughout the day, including an in-class fashion show, creating their very own comics, and even taking part in a ‘Booknic’ with the children in Year 5. We loved sharing some of our favourite books with the other children and having a snack too!

This term, we’ve had the pleasure of focusing on a single topic for a deep dive throughout Spring. The children have been learning about Ancient Egypt while also developing their skills as historians. We’ve learned about where Ancient Egypt was, how their civilisation was structured, the beliefs they held, and the jobs people did back then. We’ve even started to look at some artefacts from Ancient Egypt and discussed what they could have been used for and why they were found in places like the tomb of Tutankhamun. We were also lucky enough to invite some visitors to help us run an ‘Ancient Egypt Day’, which I’m sure you know the children absolutely loved taking part in.

Values

This term, our value was curiosity, and the children had plenty of opportunities to be curious learners. Whether it was delving into science experiments, exploring historical topics, or solving maths problems, the students were encouraged to ask questions, explore new ideas, and think critically.

7th February 2025Sumaiya Khan

Year 3 Blog

Reading 

This term, the children have thoroughly enjoyed reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The story follows a giant metal creature who mysteriously appears in a small town, creating a suspenseful plot that kept them eager to read more. The book provided opportunities for children to develop their reading fluency and expression. They particularly enjoyed role-playing different characters, which helped them understand their thoughts, feelings, and actions more deeply. The book is rich in vocabulary, which allowed children to expand their understanding of new words in context. They also had opportunities to visualise key scenes in the story and strengthen their sequencing and summarising skills.

Writing

In English, this term, we began our unit of a ‘losing tale’ by reading a book called ‘Grandpa’s teeth’. The children enjoyed the mystery of the story and found the illustrations very amusing! Throughout the unit we explored a range of grammatical features including, Using noun phrases to create settings using all of the senses, using conjunctions, including to form subordinate clauses and Introducing speech punctuation (inverted commas). Children then thought about and started to plan their own losing tale story. They came up with some great ideas including, The Gruffalo that lost his horns, the fairy that lost her wings and many more. It was fabulous to see the children include the grammatical features we had learnt into their final piece of writing.

 

The next unit we moved onto was a ‘recount’. We read the book called ‘ The Iron Man ’The children have enjoyed transferring their knowledge from our reading lessons into English. We have covered a range of grammatical features in this unit including, using paragraphs, expressing time, place and cause using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions, simple and progressive tenses, object and subject, and the past perfect tense. The final piece of writing for this unit is a Newspaper article on Iron man. Children will be able to use their imaginations and come up with creative headlines whilst recounting the events of the Iron man in an article format. 

Maths 

We have just wrapped up our unit on multiplying and dividing, the children have learned a range of strategies for multiplying one and two digit numbers together as well as dividing them. We even started to learn how to account for remainders in division for the first time which is always tricky but they did really well! We have now just started our unit on Length and Perimeter which the children have been enjoying so far. Measuring all sorts of objects around the classroom and discussion which unit of measurement would be best suited for measuring certain objects. We’re going to continue to build on this fantastic work into the next half term. We have lots of practical lessons planned, including measuring each other to find out who is the tallest, who is the smallest, and whose height falls in the middle of our class.

Science 

This half term, we have finished our unit on animals and nutrition. Children have enjoyed exploring the bones and muscles in the human body as well as different animal skeletons. We explored how skeletons vary between animals, vertebrates and invertebrates, endoskeletons and exoskeletons, and the advantages and disadvantages of each type of skeleton. Nutrition was next on our list! We learnt about what nutrition is and where it comes from before moving onto different food groups and the effects they have on our body. Children enjoyed creating a 3D plate showing the balance of different food groups that generates a nutritious meal. For the final weeks of term, we have moved onto a new unit called ‘Light and Shadows’. Children will be exploring light sources and where they come from, how light travels, keeping our skin safe from the sun and how shadows are formed.

 

Value

This term, we have focused on empathy. The children have been encouraged to use kind hands and kind words when out on the playground at break and lunch. We are helping the children to think about the feelings of others, what to do if somebody is upset and how a small act of kindness can quickly be spread throughout the classroom and then the school. We are looking forward to our lesson on mental health and how this can help us to consider that the actions we take can affect the people around us.

PSHE 

In PSHE, children will continue exploring their dreams and goals. They will learn about the importance of setting personal targets and the challenges they may face along the way. Through discussions and activities, they will develop an understanding of perseverance—how to stay motivated and overcome obstacles when things get difficult. Children will also explore strategies for seeking help when needed, recognising that support from others can be key to achieving their goals. They will learn about different jobs and career aspirations, helping them to think about their own ambitions for the future.

As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, children completed a variety of activities to develop their emotional well-being and resilience. 

Year 3 Blog

18th December 2024Sumaiya Khan

English

In English, this term, we began with a poetry unit, ‘Wish A Spell’ by Brian Moses.
The children were inspired and eager to write their own versions after reading and analysing the poem. During this unit, they revised commands, noun phrases, possessive apostrophes, and were introduced to the use of ‘a’ and ‘an’. For their final write, the children thought about their own wishes and came up with interesting ingredients they would need for their wishes to come true.

We have also studied an explanation text based on the film ‘How to Train Your Dragon’.
Within this unit, the children learned about time conjunctions, cause and effect conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs. They also explored the purpose and importance of headings, sub-headings, and paragraphs, and applied these when writing their own texts. For their final hot write, the children had the opportunity to choose their own mythical creature or animal to train. They were encouraged to use the new skills they had learned in their writing. Have a read of some great and unique explanation texts below!

 

Reading

During this term in reading, we have been looking at a non-fiction text and some poetry. We started by exploring The Big Book of the UK. The children enjoyed discovering different facts about towns and cities across the UK.  They had the opportunity to practice their skimming, scanning, and retrieval skills. One of the favourite facts the children found was that in the UK, more than 100 million cups of tea are drunk each day!

We then moved on to a book called Poetry Pie. This book was full of funny poems that the children enjoyed exploring. We spent some time looking at rhyming couplets, as well as fluency and expression. The children enjoyed performing poems in groups for the class and had the chance to recreate a poem called Lame Excuses. They had a lot of fun coming up with excuses to tell a teacher as to why they hadn’t read their reading book.

Maths

In Maths this term, the children have been focusing on multiplication and division, with an emphasis on their 3s, 4s, and 8 times tables. The children have been able to demonstrate how things are grouped. For example, “How many cupcakes are on the plate? There are 4 cupcakes on 3 plates. How many cupcakes are there altogether?” (4 x 3 = 12). The children have enjoyed using pop songs to help them learn their times tables, and I’m sure they would love to sing them to you! By looking at addition and subtraction it has allowed children to consolidate their learning of the basics and transfer their knowledge into learning and understanding their times tables. We are going to continue to build on their knowledge of multiplication and division after half term. In the Spring term, we will be looking at Length and Perimeter, Fractions and Mass and Capacity. 

 

Science

In science, we have been learning all about skeletons. In our first lesson, we explored what the human skeleton looks like and its structure. In the second lesson, we focused on the function of the human skeleton and how it supports and protects our body. In lesson three, we investigated how bones and muscles work together to help us move. Next, we will be looking at how skeletons are different in different animals and exploring what nutrition is and where it comes from. The children have enjoyed discovering how our skeleton is essential to our everyday life!

 

Art

During art, we focused on tonal shading. The children enjoyed learning about the shade scale and exploring how light affects the shades on objects. We went outside for one of our lessons, and the children put their skills to the test by drawing and shading a tree. We then explored still life images of fruit and vegetables, and the children practiced shading with colour. The final part of the unit was drawing a portrait, where the children explored proportion and lighting.

 

RE

This term in RE, Year 3 has been studying places of worship. The children have learned about the importance of different places of worship for different religions. They created posters on how to behave in a place of worship and specifically what happens at a mosque, church, and synagogue. We look forward to learning about humanity next term.

 

Value

This term, we have focused on independence. The children have been encouraged to start tasks independently in class and use their prior knowledge to solve problems on their own. They have started to show that they are independent learners by sourcing math resources to support their understanding and using a dictionary to assist them with their writing.

 

Year 3 Blog

18th October 2024Sumaiya Khan

Welcome to year 3’s first blog of the year!

We have been very busy over the past two months, and there are lots of exciting things we want to share with you. We all had a great start to the year and have been working really hard since then. Take a look below at some of the excellent work and fun activities we’ve all been involved in. This half term, our value has been resilience. At the beginning of the term, the children had 10 lessons on resilience and how they can incorporate this value into their day-to-day school life.

English

We covered two topics during this half-term. A persuasive piece of writing and a narrative. Our persuasive piece was based on the book ‘The day the Crayons Quit’. Children enjoyed this unit and worked hard on their final piece of writing which was to write the crayons a letter persuading them to come back. During this unit, we looked at persuasive language, subordinating conjunctions and introduced paragraphs. Our narrative piece is based on the book ‘Journey’ this story allows the children to be imaginative and explore descriptive language. Children have particularly enjoyed creating their own world behind a magical door.

 

Maths

In Maths this term, the children have been looking at Place Value, the children have been able to show how many hundreds, tens and ones a number has and can use this information to solve problems. By starting with place value, it has allowed children to consolidate their learning of the basics and put the skills they are being taught into practice especially when trying trickier questions. These skills can then be transferred when we start the second topic of Addition and Subtraction. The children are learning how to add and subtract two-digit numbers away from three-digit numbers, whilst also making connections between numbers, for example; If we know that 4 + 6 = 10, we know that 40 + 60 = 100.

We are going to continue to build on our knowledge of Addition and Subtraction after half term as well as looking at Multiplication and Division and using our knowledge of times tables. It would be great to see children having a go at practicing their 2’s, 5’s and 10 times tables over the half term and even trying their 3’s, 4’s and 8’s to make sure we hit the ground running after the break.

Reading

In reading this term, we began by exploring the captivating and touching story Gorilla by Anthony Browne. The book follows Hannah, a young girl who feels lonely and neglected by her busy father. On her birthday, she receives a toy gorilla, but during the night, something magical happens. The gorilla comes to life, taking her on a journey filled with adventure. Throughout our lessons, we focused on key reading skills such as prediction, inference, and sequencing. The children also enjoyed writing in role as the characters, engaging in drama and role play to deepen their understanding of the story.

We are now reading Arthur and the Golden Rope by Joe Todd-Stanton. The story is about a young boy named Arthur, an unlikely hero, who embarks on a thrilling quest to save his village from the monstrous wolf, Fenrir. We are continuing to build on our reading skills.

Science

In Science this term,  we have been learning about the different types of rocks. We have learnt about what rocks are. We discussed that there are three different types of rocks (metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary). The children completed an experiment to see if different types of rocks were permeable or impermeable.  For example, some children identified slate as being impermeable because it does not allow water to pass through. We then spoke about why slate is a good material for roofing. We are going to be looking at fossils and how archaeologists find different artefacts in the soil. The children will be digging for fossils using tools (cocktail sticks) to see if they can find any artefacts (chocolate chips) in our dig sites (cookie). After half term, we will be looking into what the human skeleton looks like, what is the function of the human skeleton and how our bones and muscles work together.

History

In our history lessons, we are focusing on the Stone Age. We began by exploring prehistoric Britain and discovering what life was like during this time. The children have engaged in a variety of hands-on activities, such as creating their own Neolithic settlements inspired by the famous site of Skara Brae. We also conducted a scavenger hunt to find the differences between the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Children have also  examined evidence to learn about the possible uses of Stonehenge, and discussed some of the mysteries of this iconic monument.

 

Thank you

Miss Khan, Miss Hull and Miss Connolly

A brilliant end to a brilliant term!

28th March 2024Jordan Clarke

Welcome to Year 3’s last blog of the Spring term. What an eventful term it has been and the children have really worked exceptionally hard. Even though it has been a relatively short term, we have crammed lots of learning and opportunities in for the children. One that we won’t be forgetting anytime soon is the year 3 and 4 play. This was a fantastic performance and the children worked so hard to put it together. From learning lines, to getting costumes ready and learning all of the songs. A big, big thank you to the parents and carers too who have helped with all of this – we really appreciate it! Let’s have a look at what else the children in year 3 have been getting up to…

Reading

We have had lots of fun in our Reading lessons this term. We have been looking at a story called The Iron Man. The children really enjoyed this immersive book and threw themselves into all aspects of it. The children used their visualisation skills to picture the Iron Man standing on the brink of a cliff, they also considered possible questions they had around who the Iron Man is?Where did he come from?Is someone controlling him? The children also placed themselves in the Iron Man shoes, and considered what it would be like if they were trapped like him and how they would feel when he becomes a hero.

The children also looked at a book called One Plastic Bag, this focuses on the recycling women of Gambia. The children learnt how to use a dictionary to find and define words within the story that they didn’t understand. They also learned about the importance of recycling and how plastic bags can be made into something else of use. 

History

This term we have had the pleasure of being able to focus on a single topic for a deep dive all the way through Spring. The children have been learning about Ancient Egypt as well as developing their skills as historians. We’ve learned all about where Ancient Egypt was, how their civilisation was structured, the beliefs they held and the jobs people did back then. We’ve even started to look at some artefacts from Ancient Egypt and discuss what they could have been for, and why they were found in the places they were, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun. We even were lucky enough to be able to invite some visitors to help us run an ‘Ancient Egypt Day’ which I’m sure you know all the children loved taking part in. We’d also like to say another massive thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped out on that day and made it a reality!

Maths

We have done so many maths units since the last blog it has been brilliant to see the children’s progress this half term! We started out with Fractions and the children did great. It was amazing to see them develop their understanding of what is usually a really tricky subject in maths. But the Year 3 team are all incredibly impressed with how all three classes have worked!

We have since started our unit on Mass and Capacity, the children have been working really hard and have already started to apply their knowledge from outside of school to the work in the classroom. Talking about helping to bake, and measuring things out at home. It’s been wonderful to see and we can’t wait to continue this unit in the Summer Term.

From the year 3 team:

Mr Vettese, Miss Hull, Miss Islam, Mr Clarke and Mrs Prowse

 

Year 3 Blog- Spring Term

31st January 2024Shuhana Islam

Welcome back to Spring Term

Welcome back to Spring Term in Year 3! There has been so much exciting learning going on and the children have impressed us with their enthusiasm and willingness to embrace new challenges.

English

In our English lessons, we have thoroughly enjoyed reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.

We have immersed ourselves in the book by carrying out lots of drama activities and retelling the story at each point to check that we have understood the plot. In writing, we have had a big push on punctuating sentences accurately with the correct end of sentence punctuation.

The children have also been thinking carefully about how to engage the reader by using a range of ambitious vocabulary and interesting sentence starters. We used an animation of The Iron Man to help us to write detailed character and setting descriptions. We then progressed to writing from different character’s perspectives and wrote diary entries from Hogarth’s point of view. Have a read of the children’s wonderful writing below:

Maths

We have just wrapped up our unit on multiplying and dividing, the children have learned a range of strategies for multiplying one and two digit numbers together as well as dividing them. We even started to learn how to account for remainders in division for the first time which is always tricky but they did really well!

We have now just started our unit on Length and Perimeter which the children have been enjoying so far. Measuring all sorts of objects around the classroom and discussion whichunit of measurement would be best suited for measuring certain objects. We’re going to continue to build on this fantastic work into the next half term as well as using it for a practical lesson on Number Day this Friday.

Science

This term we have been learning about light and shadows. We have learnt about what a light source is. We discussed that the sun was our biggest source of light. The children went around school looking for different light sources and identifying how that particular light source helps us. For example, some children identified the ‘exit light’ in the hall and classrooms. We spoke about how this light would help us find the exit incase of a fire. Our second lesson saw us being more investigative, we looked at the impact the sun has on our skin if we do not wear suncream. We placed different factors of suncream into separate bags along with some UV beads, which were left in the sun for 15 minutes. The results were very shocking to the children, because even with factor 30 on the UV beads some still changed colour showing the radiation from the sun. Our third lesson started to look into different materials and whether light could travel through them. The children learnt words such as Transparent, Translucent and Opaque. 

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be looking into how we can measure our shadows and whether they can be used to tell stories and also our reflections and the intention that mirrors our images back to front. 

History

This term we have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians. The children used an atlas to identify where Ancient Egypt is on a map and how long ago Ancient Egypt was (around 5,000 years ago). We have also looked at why the river Nile was so important to the Ancient Egyptians, the children created posters to show off the uses and importance of the river. Our third lesson was focused on the Great Pyramids of Egypt and why they were built. The children watched a virtual tour showing inside the pyramids and the different chambers for the Pharaohs. We used our artistic skills again in this lesson as the children then created their own mini pyramids using paper nets. In future lessons, we will be looking at Egyptian hieroglyphics, gods and the afterlife. Also, why and how we know so much about Ancient Egypt. 

We are looking forward to the rest of the Spring Term and have commenced our practises for our excting Year 3 and Year 4 play! Look out for more details in mid February.

We hope you have enjoyed finding out about what Year 3 have been up to over the last few weeks. As ever, please continue to encourage reading at home, spelling practise and remind your child to login to Times Tables Rockstars to improve their multiplication and disvision knowledge.Thank you for your suport with this!

 

 

Year 3 Blog

11th May 2023Jordan Clarke

We have had a busy few weeks here in Year 3! From World Book Day fun to play rehearsals and not to mention all of the fantastic work they have produced.

 

English:

In our English lessons, we have been really busy learning about different grammatical features. These have included modal verbs, relative clauses and the ‘rule of three’. Have a look below at some of the displays that we have created as a class to help us with our writing! The children have really enjoyed our model text of ‘Grandpas teeth’ and have written for a variety of purposes. Their handwriting is improving each week and we are really proud of the progress they are making here!

Maths:

We came to the end of our length and perimeter topic where the children were measuring shapes and practising their skills of using a ruler to find the perimeter. We focused on key vocabulary and ensured that the children were using these in their discussions. This has improved and there are lots of excellent language rich conversations going on. We have moved onto our topic of ‘Fractions’, and so far we have explored some of the key vocabulary and have identified that when the denominator is bigger, the means that the fraction is smaller. We’ve used a fraction wall to help the children see this visually and they have shown a great understanding of the topic already. We can’t wait to see what work they produce!

Music:

The children absolutely love their music lessons each week and we have come to the end of our ‘Junk Percussion’ unit. In this unit they explored sounds they can make with everyday objects including overlapping ostinato (see if your child can remember what this means!) We have now moved onto our second unit using the djembe, which is a drum from West Africa. I’m sure the children will really enjoy this and will tell you all about it!

World Book Day 2023:

A very exciting day for everyone in school is the long awaited World Book Day. The children had a fantastic day taking part in a variety of activities such as bookmark making, creating a patchwork door, buddy reading with year 6 and watching a live lesson where they had to add a twist to their favourite story. Not to mention the quiz at the end of the day, which was very exciting indeed! See some excellent examples of the work they produced and also the brilliant costumes!

 

Year 3 Blog

11th May 2023Jordan Clarke

It has been a very busy half term in year 3. We performed our Year 3/4 eco play which was absolutely fantastic, and I’m sure you would agree that the standard was exceptional if you came and watched it! The children did superbly and had a great time both practising and performing. A big thank you to the parents for helping learn these lines and bringing your children into school for the evening performance, it is very much appreciated! Let’s have a look at what the children in year 3 have been busy learning this half term…

 

Maths:

In maths the children were learning about fractions at the beginning of the half term. They worked really hard on this topic and lots of the children were really confident with explaining some of the key vocabulary and using this correctly in class discussions. It was really pleasing to see the hard work all year 3 classes put in to this topic and it really showed in the work they produced. We finished the half term on ‘mass and capacity’. We explored different ways we can measure involving both mass and capacity and the difference between the two. We looked at a variety of containers and had a go at estimating the volume and comparing them in groups. We also looked at reading scales accurately and finding out how to read and calculate the intervals on scales.

 

Reading:

We have started a new topic of poetry which the children seem to be really enjoying. There have been opportunities for the children to explore different poems by the author Valerie Bloom, and we have looked at some key vocabulary. We have worked together as a class and also in pairs, to come up with ideas for our own poem that we are writing. The children had to think of their favourite things that are calming, peaceful and that embody the 5 senses. By the end of the half term, the children would have written their own poem with 3 verses, all about someone special in their lives.

 

English:

Linking with our eco play, we have started a topic for the last few weeks on playscripts. This has been well received by the children as they are familiar with scripts, and have been given the opportunity to think about well known traditional tales. They were able to select their own traditional tale and transforming this into a playscript. We had think about the features of a playscript, as some of these rules are very different to other genres of writing we have done before.

 

Art:

In art, we have been looking at the style of pointillism and looking at the work of Georges Seurat. The children really enjoyed this and we used cotton buds to create the pointillism style. We designed flag bunting, colour wheels and we then looked at different ways of mixing colours and shading using this technique. We finished this topic by creating our own picture of our choice, using the style of pointillism.

 

We wish you and your families a very relaxing and enjoyable Easter break, and look forward to welcoming the children back in the summer term.

 

 

Year 3 Blog

11th May 2023Jordan Clarke

We have been really busy in year 3 and lots of exciting learning has been taking place. Have a read below to see what we have been up to!

 

Maths:

In our maths lessons we have been learning about mass and capacity. This has seen us using lots of practical resources to look at different weights, capacities and the units of measurement we use. The children really enjoyed this as they were using different containers to compare capacities which I think took lots of them by surprise! We then looked at converting measurements, equivalent measurements and adding and subtracting different quantities too. We are now moving into fractions again, where the children are learning how to add, subtract and find equivalent fractions.

English:

In our writing lessons we have been learning how to use similes, generalisers and headings/subheadings to help us write our own non chronological reports. The children have done some excellent descriptions of characters in the form of a postcard and trading cards – they really enjoyed this! There have been lots of examples of excellent handwriting and it is great to see such improvements across the year group.

DT:

A very exciting half term in our DT topic of making omelettes! We learnt about the different ingredients which are in season and what this means in terms of us as a consumer. We then looked at why eggs are important and what we can make using eggs. We tried some scrambled eggs and then decided on different ingredients that would be suitable for an omelette. The children loved practising cracking eggs, whisking, mixing and forming their own omelettes with the toppings of their choice. All in all, they did a great job and some children even had their first taste of an omelette and really liked it!

Reading:

Our new book that we started reading after the Easter holidays was ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. This has been a really good book and has taught us a lot about friendships, being kind and using our skills of empathy. We discussed different scenarios that took place in some of the chapters and what we would do in those situations, using drama in groups to show this. We have also practised our skills of retrieval, summarising, inference and prediction to explore the book in detail and taking the time to understand character’s thoughts, feeling and emotions.

 

Great work this half term year 3 – keep it up!

Year 3 Blog

31st January 2023Jordan Clarke

What a fantastic start to the year we have had in year 3! With new teachers beginning this year, there have been lots of changes and the children have settled really well with their new teachers and have been showing some fantastic pieces of work. Let’s have a look and see what year 3 have been up to…

 

English

We have been reading The Great Kapok Tree and have really enjoyed the book and learning about all the fascinating animals of the rainforest. We began the year by looking at what we might see in the rainforest and describing these animals using super adjectives. We made these descriptions of our animals into short descriptive paragraphs where the children were learning how to extend sentences using verbs, adverbs and well-chosen adjectives and we even looked at using speech! The children were given the opportunity to use this text to help them innovate their own story and write their own. Have a look below at some great examples of the hard work that year 3 have been putting in…

 

Maths

It has been a busy few weeks with our learning in maths. Lots of work on multiplication and division and the different methods we can use to solve calculations involving both of these operations. We had a look at some key vocabulary that the children may come across and learnt some of the synonyms for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. To help with our times tables, you would have seen the colourful times table chart that the children brought home this week. This is to help them with their times table knowledge up to 12×12 and is there to help them learn them. Each morning in our maths lessons we are performing a ‘TT Rockstars’ times table challenge. This is a personal challenge for the children and we are already seeing them beat their previous scores which is fantastic progress! They are really enjoying doing it so we hope that this will help them with their calculations in class. Have a look below at some wonderful examples of the hard work from the children in year 3 in maths…

History

Let’s go back to The Stone Age! What a fantastic topic we have had and we have learnt so many facts about The Stone Age. The children have produced some wonderful work in this topic and have really enjoyed it. They particularly enjoyed our cave painting lesson where the classrooms were transformed into real life caves, with paintings stuck under tables and children exploring them like they would have done back in the stone age! They then created some truly excellent cave paintings using charcoal and oil pastels. They used their skills of smudging and blending of colours and then scrunched their papers up to give them the effect of cave walls! We are very excited to take part in our Stone Age day next week on Tuesday and look forward to dressing up too! Have a look below at some of the brilliant work the children have produced…