Friday 12th December

This week the children in year 3 have been getting Festive. We have been busy sewing as part of our design and technology project. The children have been practicing back stitch and have created some fantastic pieces! 

On Thursday we held our annual Christmas jumper day and enjoyed a special lunch of Christmas dinner.

On Friday we also took part in the Reindeer run which saw lots of parents get involved in raising money for charity, as well as a surprise visit from the Grinch! 

Friday 28th November

The children put on a fantastic poetry performance earlier in the week, was fantastic to see so many parents present too! 

The children have been busy planning sandwich recipes and will be making them on Tuesday 2nd of December in school. They have created some great ideas and we look forward to seeing them make them!

Friday 14th November

It has been an exciting week this week in year 3 as we have begun practicing for our upcoming poetry performance! The children are working really hard and are currently busy learning their lines and lyrics to the songs in preparation for the show. Children are being encouraged to learn these both in school and at home and will no doubt be excited to share with their grown ups! We are currently looking for the following costumes for our performance and kindly ask that if children have anything suitable, could it please be passed onto the class teachers of year 3. We will return all items once finished.

• Red riding hood
• The wolf
• Snow white
• Cinderella
• Goldilocks
• Jack and the beanstalk

In year 3 and across the school children have taken part in anti-bullying week with an emphasis on prevention and effective responses to bullying and how we can use our 'power for good' to tackle bullying. The children have produced some wonderful posters which will be displayed around school to keep spreading the message!

On Friday, Year 3 were invited to come to school in their own clothes and make a donation to charity in support of Children in need. Looking fantastic year 3!

Friday 7th November

This week in Year 3 we have started our new class novel Grimwood. If children would like to review this story so far, they are welcome to update Padlet and write a summary of the first few chapters we have read in class. 

Also in English we are looking at introduction writing relating to the book how to wash a woolly mammoth. We have been practicing using bossy verbs and adjectives to make our instructions interesting and funny. 

We have received feedback from parents and some children about the most recent spellings, notably the phoneme maps section. Children have been reminded again about this. 
In Art the children have created self portraits using the method of tracing and carbon paper. The results have been fantastic and we can't wait to display them here in Year 3.

Home Learning 03/11/25

English

Look at the front cover of our new class novel, Grimwood. What do you think the book will be about? What things can you see on the front cover? What sort of story will it be? Who might enjoy it?

Read the extract from the story https://www.readingzone.com/media/xmbffmlo/grimwood_chap1.pdf and answer the following questions. 

1. What are the foxes called?

2. Where do they live?

3. How did Ted sometimes calm Nancy down? 

4. Why does the pigeon have one foot?

5.What are Nancy’s friends called?

Extension: Summarise this chapter as precisely as you can.

Spellings

Practise this weeks spellings that are in your Spelling Homework folder.

Maths

Complete this weeks TT Rockstars. Log in details are in the green Reading Journals. If you are unable to access this please complete ten minutes  on Hit The Button. 

Practise using the interactive resource https://whiteroseeducation.com/digital-tools?code=cup-did-mid. Go on to the Place Value chart and complete the following calculations. 

232+ 5 =

232+50 =

232+ 500 =

441+ 3 =

441 + 30 =

441 + 300 =

History

Complete some independent research to deepen your knowledge and understanding about the Stone Age. Use the link to help you https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk.

Art

Create your own Stone Age cave paintings, using crayons and paper. Refer to the images below to help you.

Friday 10th October

This week has been Life Skills Week. It has been an exciting, busy week learning lots of practical skills from tying our shoe laces to lighting a fire. We enjoyed two workshops. One from HSBC bank learning about the importance of ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ and the importance of budgeting. Our other workshop was about looking after our Mental Health where the children worked together to act out and solve different scenarios. In Maths, we looked at telling the time and Months of the Year. 
 

Just a reminder that TT Rockstars log ins have all been set up and given out. Children will be set tasks to complete each week to practise their recall of important times tables facts.

Thank you for your support.

The Year 3 Team

Friday 19th September

The children have settled into Year 3 well and our gaining confidence and indpendence in their new routines in KS2. In English, they have been reviewing key grammatical features to help with sentence structure in their writing. In Maths, they have been introduced to our first topic of Place Value and looking at numbers to 1000. Children have been provided with spelling homework. We would like children to practise thier spellings and complete their homework sheet weekly. Children will be tested on these every Friday. The half termly homework has also been given out. For reading, children have all been shown how to use Padlet in school. We encourage children to record any indpendent reading on Padlet. Please click on the Home Learning link to access this.