Welcome to Year 3! 

In Year 3, the class teacher is Mr Andrews. 

If you have any questions, please come and speak to Mr Andrews. If he is not around at the beginning and end of the day, you can contact the school office and request an appointment. 

Keep referring back to this page for regular updates about the children's learning. 
 

PE DAYS (AUTUMN 1)

Please note that our PE days for this half term will be: Wednesday (indoor) and Friday (outdoor). 

Update - wb 13th October
Well done on another fantastic week in school. I am proud of you all! 
 

English

This week has seen the children writing their final pieces of their current unit of work about ‘Robin Hood’. The children wrote their final pieces over 3 sessions and had the honour of sharing their final craft with the year 4 children. 
 

Maths
The children have been using one of our 4R’s this week in maths of resilience. We have been introduced to the formal column method for addition which has included adding numbers with up to 3 digits. We have also been challenging the children to exchange in the ones and tens columns. This has been supported through the use of practical maths resources to help them understand how exchanging works. 
 

RE

The children have had their final lesson on our current unit of work about Diwali. The children had a mini Diwali celebration including making their own Rangoli patterns. 
 

PE

During our indoor PE lesson this week, we used a range of apparatus to perform 1, 2, 3 and 4 point balances ensuring control and stability. During our outdoor PE lesson, we have continued to develop our passing and receiving skills when using footballs. This will help us especially ahead of our mini football tournament next week. 

Update - wb Monday 6th October

Wow! What another great week in Year 3. 

English

The children have been continuing with their English writing journey on 'Robin Hood' by Bethan Woollvin. They have been learning about using adverbs to show time, place and cause also, they have been learning about varying nouns and pronouns to avoid repetition. Next week, the children will be writing their final pieces. 

Maths

The children have been learning the most efficient way to add and subtract by counting on and back. This has included counting on and back through 10s and 100s. Elsewhere in Maths, the children have been continuing to recall their times tables as quickly as possible, specifically focusing on the 3 times tables including the division facts. Try and test them at home! 

PSHE

As we come towards the end of the current unit of work, the children have thought further about kindness and how we can spread this in our class and around the school. The children created different ways to show kindness such as: certificates, badges, postcards and awards. 

Update - wb Monday 29th September
It has been another busy week of learning in year 3 where the children are continuing to follow our school rules of: Respect, Resilience, Responsible and Ready to Learn. 
 

English

In our current English lessons, the children are using the key text ‘Robin Hood’ by Bethan Woollvin. The children have been orally retelling the story using a range of actions. In readiness for our final piece in the coming weeks, this week the children have been working on their simple and compound sentence structures. 
 

Computing

In our Computing lesson this week, we have been thinking about how computers change the way we work. We compared our recent art work project on using watercolours to using digital painting tools. 
 

Promoting the fundamental British Values - democracy

This week the children have been thinking about who they would like to vote for as their school councillor. On Monday, children listened to those of the children in the class who put their names forward to apply for the rule. The applicants read their application forms to the rest of the class. We then voted for the top 3 children who then went through to the final vote. On Thursday, the polling station opened where we went and voted for the year 3 councillor. Congratulations to Blake who will represent our class this year! 

Update 4 - wb Monday 22nd September

This has been a very fun and exciting week in Year 3! On Wednesday the children were visited by ‘Stone Age Martin’ from Portals to the Past. The children spent the day with ‘Stone Age Martin’ with a full day of interactive learning and activities all about the Stone Age. 

Also, in our English lessons, we have had a special delivery from ‘Robin Hood’. She sent us a box of clues as well as her very own story book. Inside the story book, she set us a challenge of telling everyone the real story about her. 

Update 3 - wb 15th September 

As part of our Art project with ‘Contrast and Complement’ we have created our own watercolour montage using shapes and water colour mixing. Here we are in action! 

Update 2 - wb 8th September
Year 3 have been busy in English learning about the key text ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth’. We have been drafting our own set of instructions. 

Update 1 - wb 3rd September

This week has been a fantastic start to the year. The children have been eager to start some of their new topics especially Art. We have been looking at contrasting and complementary colours including making our own colour wheels.