Summer Term 2024
Important reminders:
Homework will be set on a Friday to be handed in the following Friday.
Homework will consist of 2 pieces of purple mash.
Children will need to complete 4 reads a week which can be recorded on Boom Reader.
PE kits will need to be brought to school on a Monday and taken home on a Friday.
WWeek commencing 22nd July
Year 3, you have been amazing, you have continued to work hard this week, learning important life skills and showing great teamwork. We have had lots of fun during Songkran, and you had a fantastic move up morning with Mrs Jones.
Mrs Hudson and I are incredibly proud of all of your achievements this year, keep up the good work!
Week commencing 15th July 2024
This week we have had lots of fun completing our very own pieces of abstract art. Some of Year 3 have been on their first residential with school to Rand Farm, having lots of fun learning about a working farm whilst others have taken part in team building activities at school.
Week commencing 8th July 2024
This week we have been working really hard on our DT project “How can we encourage wildlife to our environment”. Through this we have looked at the design criteria, our target audience and completed our own research on bug hotels. We have also been on a walk to gather materials and resources for our bug hotels. Upon completing our bug hotels, we put them in the school playground and then evaluated them by looking to see if any wildlife had entered them.
Also, this week we have been completing our end of unit mini quizzes for R.E, History and Geography and had lots of fun during the Church Lane Carnival day.
Week commencing 1st July 2024
This week we have completed the authorial process by editing and publishing our poems using our senses.
In maths we have continued to look at statistics and have been analysing bar charts and two-way tables.
This week we have also explored magnetism, considering what magnets attract and repel, have looked at the inside changes of the body during PSHE and have had some fun in dance during P.E lessons.
Everyone in Year 3 had a fantastic day at Sports day and I am extremely proud of the resilience and determination they showed during their races.
Week commencing 24th June 2024
Year 3 have been working really hard during their assessments this week.
We have also started a poetry unit this considering how we can describe colour using our different senses.
In maths we are continuing with or unit of work on statistics, looking at bar charts.
We have had lots of fun in music this week and have also enjoyed practicing for sports day during P.E.
Week commencing 17th June 2024
Year 3 have completed their writing unit on How to grow a strong mind this week. They have all created a lovely set of instructions with a wide range of punctuation including brackets.
In Maths we have started our unit on statistics, looking at pictograms.
We have enjoyed our afternoon sessions this week, looking at how the civilisation on Ancient Egypt ended and looking at the Greenwich Meridian in Geography. We have also been working together as a team this week during P.E lessons during orienteering.
Week commencing 10th June 2024
This week Year 3 have been working hard looking at geometry in Maths. We have begun exploring, vertical, horizontal, parallel and perpendicular lines with shapes.
In English we have been looking at how we can begin to write our set of instructions based on jamming a jamming bagel.
This week we have also looked at Christian pilgrimages in R.E as well as forces in science and the northern and southern hemispheres in Geography.
Week commencing 3rd June 2024
Welcome back Year 3!
This week Year 3 have continued to write their own set of instructions in English on how to grow a strong and healthy mind.
In maths we have started a new unit on Geometry, we have looked at turns and angles, focusing, on right angles, obtuse and acute.
We have also started a new unit on pilgrimages in RE, have leant about Cleopatra in History and have started to look at some crazy banana songs in Music.
Week commencing 20th May 2024
Well done Year 3 you have worked hard this term!
This week we have been looking at the weather patterns found within different climates, how animals adapt to their underwater habitats, who succeeded Akhenaten and some key Hindu deities.
Have a lovely half term Year 3!
Week commencing 13th May 2024
Year 3 have started a new unit this week in English. We have started to look at a piece of writing focused around instructions on how to grow a healthy mind.
As mathematicians we have been focusing on converting time to seconds, minutes and hours.
We have had lots of fun in music this week, looking at songs from the past and learning some old playground songs, focusing on beats. We have also focused on our underwater habitats this week looking at the different animals that can be found within them and the environmental food chains.
Week commencing 6th May 2024
This week we have continued to be authors, finishing our own version narratives and looking at how we can edit and improve them before publishing.
In maths we have continued to work on time looking at am and pm and days, months, and years.
This week we have also continued to look at abstract art and different climate zones across the world.
Week commencing 29th April 2024
This week year 3 have been looking at how we can use dialogue in our writing and have started to plan our own narrative on the story of Black Rock.
In maths we have started our unit on time, looking at roman numerals and how to tell the time to a minute.
In our afternoon sessions we have continued our topic of Ancient Egypt and have looked at the importance of latitude in geography. We have also enjoyed becoming artists this week looking at our movement of Abstract Art.
Week commencing 22nd April 2024
This week year 3 have been become marine biologists in English and Science. We have been exploring all the different animals and plants that we may find in different ocean habitats, including the Mariana trench, kelp forests and coral reef.
In maths we have finished another unit on fractions and have begun to look at money. We have been looking at converting money into pounds and pence and different amounts.
In the afternoons we have begun to look at the faith of Hinduism and have also started our topic on ancient Egypt.
Week commencing 15th April 2024.
Welcome back year 3! This is your last term as a class of year 3, the year is flying by.
We have welcomed the children back this week with a new English unit called Black rock. The children have been immersing themselves as the character Erin learning about what it would be like to fall off a boat and creating some dramatic sentences to show fear and create tension.
In maths we are looking at fractions, learning to add, subtract and find fractions of amounts.
In the afternoons we have become astronauts in computing using simulations to solve problems. We have been learning some new songs and games in music and have also been looking at habitats in science.
