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)

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

Update - wb Monday 10th November 

Assembly with the local Police Officer

We were lucky to have an assembly with our local beat officer, PC Boxall who spoke to the children in KS2 about Anti-social behaviour. He spoke to the children about the job of the local police officers in supporting the community and keeping everyone safe. 

History

This week we have almost come to the end of our current History topic of ‘Stone Age to Iron Age’. In our history lesson this week we explored Iron Age hill forts and roundhouses. We also discovered how Iron Age roundhouses were built and what it was like to live inside them. 

Update - wb Monday 3rd November 

English 

This week we have started our new unit of work on David Attenborough. We have read the ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ story to help us understand key achievements of his life. We then used the text to help us orally retell key facts of David’s life. This will help us to write a special biography that we will publish as part of David’s 100th birthday celebrations next year. 

Maths 

In our Maths work this week, we have been continuing with our addition and subtraction unit of work. This has included using our formal written methods to solve problems. 

Reading

This week we have started reading our new class novel which is called ‘Stig of the Dump’. We have started reading this aloud to develop our reading fluency. 

Update - wb Monday 20th October

English 

Our English lessons this week have taken a 'Poetry' focus. We have read, responded and performed a range of different poems. We have also focused more specifically on 'The Magic Box' by Kit Wright where we did some shared writing in groups to write a shared version of this poem. After that, the children have then written their own version of the poem. 

Reading 

During our Reading lessons this week, we have finished reading our class novel 'Fantastic Mr Fox'. The children used their select and retrieve skills to answer a range of questions about Chapter 17 and 18. Once we had finished reading the text, we had a 'Book Talk' where we talked about our favourite parts of the story including events and characters. We finished the week writing a book review of the text and why others may wish to read this.

Maths 

This week we have been continuing using the formal method of column subtraction. The children have been learning about exchanging through tens and hundreds. To help them with this, they have used practical maths resources such as dienes or place value counters to help them understand how exchanging works. 

Please continue to help them with the formal methods of addition and subtraction at home. 

Geography 

The children have had several Geography lessons this week which have included learning about lines of longitude and latitude. They used these lines to identify specific places around the world using a world map. Elsewhere, they have also located using a map of Europe different countries within the European continent as well some capital cities. 

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.