If you wish to contact the Year 3 team please email year3@lostockhallcps.co.uk or contact the school office. 

Weekly update 28.09.26 - 02.10.26

Next week is life skills week so ALL children will be taking part in forest school on Wednesday. A message about this has been sent out. 

English

This week has been poetry week in our reading sessions. We have looked at the poems ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen, ‘Walking with my iguana’ by Brian Moses and ‘The Porcupine’ by Roald Dahl. The children have used these poems to answer lots of different question types and we have really focused on using our retrieval skills to answer these questions. In our writing sessions, we have looked at the story of ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’. We have looked at some key vocabulary from the text and reminded ourselves of how to create expanded noun phrases and how to use prepositions in sentences. 

Maths

In Maths this week, we have had a real focus on mental strategies for addition and subtraction. We have mainly been focusing on addition this week by looking at how to add the ones, tens and hundreds just by looking at the appropriate place value column before looking at adding ones by crossing tens. We have looked at the strategy of adding to the next ten and then adding what is left. The children have worked really hard to grapple with this concept which with a bit more confidence will help them so much! 

Wider Curriculum

In History, we have continued to look at the Stone Age, we looked at the tools and life in the Neolithic period. We looked in particular at the findings from Skara Brae and what that has told us about life in the Stone Age. It was fascinating to work like a historian to make conclusions. In RE this week, we looked at how prayer and regular prayer can help Muslims with things in their everyday life and how this commitment to Allah is important to them. 

It has been another great week in Year 3! 

Have a wonderful and restful weekend in preparation for our annual life skills week! 

The Year 3 team

Weekly update 21.09.26 - 25.09.26

English

This week we completed our first ‘star write’ of Year 3 where we retold the story of The Stone Age Boy. We ensure that we wrote in the first person and used powerful past tense verbs. We also included some co-ordinating conjunctions to help extend our sentences. It was wonderful reading the children’s writing and seeing how they are including their edits from their first draft. In reading this week, we have been looking at the story of El Deafo and have used the TV show trailer alongside extracts from the graphic novel to answer questions and build our comprehension skills. 

Maths

In Maths this week, we have looked at counting in 50s and using our knowledge of number to help us estimate what number is shown on the number line. We have also began to use our knowledge of number bonds and place value to help build our mental strategies to add numbers together fluently and quickly. The children have worked really hard building on their work from Year 2. 

Wider Curriculum

In Science this week we have looked at our muscles and how our muscles work with our joints and bones to help us move. We made a model hand to help show this in real life. In History, we have continued to look at the Stone Age, we looked in particular at the food that was hunted in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic and how this has changed and how it has stayed the same. In computing this week, we looked at how digital devices that we use can be used for more than one purpose and also how these devices can do things such as paint pictures. 

It has been another action packed week in Year 3! 

Have a wonderful and restful weekend.

The Year 3 team

Weekly update 14.09.26 - 18.09.26

It has been another busy week in Year 3. Thank you for your support with the spelling homework. It was great to see the children bring back their spelling folders. A new spelling sheet has been issued today to be completed by next week. 

English

In honour of Roald Dahl Day, this week we have been looking at some extracts from Roald Dahl books in our Guided Reading fluency sessions. It has been lovely reading the opening pages of some of his famous work such as James and the Giant Peach and George's Marvellous Medicine. We have then looked at answering different types of comprehension questions about these extracts to check our understanding and make predictions. We have also started to draft our retell of 'The Stone Age Boy'. We have been taking one paragraph at a time and editing our work as we have been going along, just like a real author would do. We are now in a position to use all this work to complete our final draft next week! 

Maths

In Maths this week, we have continued to build our number knowledge up to 1000. We have focussed on comparing and ordering numbers to 1000 alongside plotting numbers to 1000 on number lines using different scales. We have really thought about which part of the number we can look at to order such as looking at the hundreds column when ordering the hundreds, the tens column when ordering the tens and the ones column when ordering the ones and this has helped us when some numbers have the same amount of hundreds, tens or ones. The children have worked really hard to ensure that they understanding the make up of these numbers and worked hard to ensure they were using the right information within the number to help them. 

Wider Curriculum

We have started lots of our new Year 3 topics this week. In Science this week we have completed an investigation into bone length. We have been given some bones and used a ruler to measure these in centimetres. We have then used this to place into a results table and then formulate a conclusion. We have found that surprisingly it is our leg bones that seem to be the longest bones in our body and the bone inside our ear is the smallest bone. The children worked hard to work like scientists to help formulate their conclusions. In History, we have continued to look at the Stone Age and we have thought about what changes happened from the Palaeolithic period to the Mesolithic period and really focussed on the continuity (what has remained similar) and the change. It was amazing to see the things that had changed and stayed the same during that extremely long period of time. 

It has been another busy week in Year 3!

Have a wonderful and restful weekend.

The Year 3 team

Weekly update 07.09.26 - 11.09.26

It has been a lovely first full week in Year 3. The children have adapted well to the new routines and have enjoyed starting our new topics! Children have come home with their spelling folders today with their spellings for Friday's spelling test and also some activities to apply these spellings in real life. Children are to bring these folders back to school, with the completed work by next Thursday so we can give out the next spellings and activities on Friday. 

English

In English this week, we have started our work on 'The Stone Age Boy'. We have looked at the story and identified some of the key vocabulary that we will be using in our retell. We have also looked at how we can used the 'boxing up' method to help plan and organise our writing, which is a key feature of our writing now we are in Key Stage 2. We have ended the week by looking at different types of verbs and ensuring that we are using powerful verbs in our sentences and also looked at co-ordinating conjunctions and how to use these in our writing. It has been a very busy week. In reading this week, we have continued reading our class novel Planet Omar and also looked at some work on short extracts from the Worst Witch. 

Maths

In Maths this week, we have continued our work on place value. We have been looking at counting past 100 and looking at how many hundreds are in 1000. We have continued to partition these numbers, whether that is simply into hundreds, tens and ones or whether we are flexibly partitioning these numbers. (134 = 100 + 30 + 4, or 134 = 130 + 4, or 134 = 110 + 20 + 4). The children have worked hard to ensure that they are presenting their work correctly and also ensuring that they are understanding what makes up these larger numbers. 

Wider Curriculum

We have started lots of our new Year 3 topics this week. In Science we have started our topic of movement and nutrition. This week we have looked at joints and focussed on which joints are hinge joints, pivot joints, gliding joints and ball and socket joints. In History, we started our Stone Age to Iron Age topic. We have focussed on the Palaeolithic and have looked at using evidence from the red lady of Paviland to help us understand what life was like in the early stone age. We have also started our PE topics of invasion games and gymnastics. 

It has been action packed and we can't wait to see what next week brings!

Have a wonderful weekend however you spend it! 

The Year 3 team

Weekly update 01.09.26 - 04.09.26

Welcome back and welcome to Year 3! We have had a fabulous week in Year 3 welcoming our new members of the Year 3 staff team Miss Beattie, Miss Harrison and Mr Monckton as well as our brand new Year 3 students. Just for reference children will need to come into school wearing their PE kits on Tuesdays and Wednesdays this term for our PE lessons. 

English

In English this week, we have been looking at the building blocks of sentences. We have looked at common nouns, proper nouns and how to form different verbs in different tenses. This will help us as we begin our first 'I'm a clever writer' unit next week. We have also been working hard in our reading lessons as we get used to our whole class guided reading sessions and preparing to begin our reading journey in Key Stage 2. 

Maths

In Maths this week, we have been looking at place value. We have revisited our learning from Year 2 relating to hundreds, tens and ones and also have been looking at plotting numbers on a number line as we look to next week and the introduction of ten hundreds being equal to 1000. We have also been working hard on laying out our work in our new Key Stage 2 Maths books. 

Wider Curriculum

We welcomed Nippon UK into school today for a jujitsu taster and the children really enjoyed giving it a go! We also had our first French lesson where we looked at the French speaking world and we also visited the Key Stage 2 computer room for the first time as we completed our first computing lesson. 

It has been a week of many firsts and we hope you have a relaxing weekend ahead of our first full week in Year 3. 

Thank you for all your support!

The Year 3 team

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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.