Welcome to Year 3

We are delighted to begin the new academic year with you all and can't wait to get to know you as individuals and class groups. We have wonderful topics and exciting learning set throughout the entire year!

Meet the Team 

2024-25

PE Uniform days:

Monday: Indoor P.E

Wednesday: Outdoor P.E

Important Dates

Thursday 5th September at 2:45- Welcome meeting and meet the teacher

Thursday 10th October – showcase event come and see what we have been making!

Monday 1^st and Wednesday 3^rd of October – Individual parent meetings with class teachers

Tuesday 12th November 9am - Parent workshop come and join your children to find out about marvellous maths  

Tuesday 17th December 2.45am - PROUD Assembly in the School Hall

Monday 6th January 3pm- Showcase for parents in classrooms 

Monday 24th February 2:45pm  - Writing workshop for parents

Monday 31st March - PROUD assembly 

Wednesday 30th April- Year 3 local visit out

Wednesday 7th May 9am- Parent Workshop Shared Reading and Oracy

Monday 2nd June 3pm- Year 3 camp meeting

Friday 27th June- Ancient Egyptian Day event for Year 3

Wednesday 9th July - Year 3 camp at school  

Reading

Year 3 children will all have a colour banded reading book which is appropriate for their level as well as a star reading book that is a book they can read for pleasure.  Please support us by reading and discussing their books at home.  There is an additional sheet stuck in diaries explaining the goals and how to help your child appropriate to the book colour they are on.

Maths

Each child has a Times Table Rock Star account and login details are stuck in diaries.  This can be accessed from home so please encourage your child to have fun and practise their times tables.  Inside diaries there is a copy of the times tables up to 12x and a 'key instant recall facts' (KIRFs).  Each half term, a KIRF will be focussed on.  Autumn 1's focus is ‘I know addition and subtraction facts to 50’.

Half Term Creative Homework Project

Every half term, we set a creative topic homework project linked to the current topic.  It's always a favourite time of the term, when we share these generally in the last week before we break up.

Spring 2 - Handwriting and Spellings Parent Workshop 24.2.25

Thank you to all those parents who came today, it was lovely to see you all! Don't worry if you couldn't make it, please see the attached slides below that will also be sent home with the your children too.  Remember any questions please don't hesitate to ask. 

From the Year 3 Team 

Our Topic for next half term is :

 'What a wonderful life'

During next half term, we are exploring the wonderful things about life and the earth. We will be taking a look at living things, the human skeleton, growth and we will be delving into the weird and wonderful world of nature.

Week 2 - Trip to the park

This week we continued to learn about the skeleton and how the human skeleton is different to animals' skeletons. We also had a very exciting trip to the park, where we took part in some observational drawing, nature trails and we also had some lovely time on the equipment playing with friends.

Week 1 - Introduction to our new topic

This week we have been learning about our new topic, 'It's a wonderful life!'. We explore the artist Gorgia O'Keeffe and how she used colour and magnification to make her nature images vibrant and sometimes abstract. The children then had a go at producing their own art work. We also explored the human skeleton and enjoyed orienteering, search for clues about all of our different bones. In addition, we also begun our bean investigation, exploring how different variables affect the growth of a plant. Take a look at us in action:

Our topic for next half term is:

'What makes Britain Great?'

During Spring 2 we will learn about 'What makes Britain Great?' we will go on a coach trip visiting the North, East, South and West. Look out for what we get up to on our upcoming travels! 

Week 6 - Spring 2

This week we have finished of our topic by reliving the last few weeks of travelling around Great Britain! We have produced some incredible double page spreads to showcase our learning about the human and physical places you can visit, some inspirational heroes including Marcus Rashford through creative ways. We have loved sharing more of your homework, thank you they have been inspirational!  

Week 5 - Spring 2

This week we have been visiting the East of Great Britain, where we found out about bridges, rivers and castles. The children explored and shared facts about these different places with each other. After working hard in P.E this half term, we have started to have tennis games, the children have been working up to this and have shone like super stars! We have started to showcase all the brilliant homework you have produced, thank you so much for your effort. We have had bird feathers, fascinating facts, holiday sharing and so much more!  

Week 4 - Spring 2

This week we have been exploring poetry, as Friday is National Poetry Day. It has been delightful to hear all the creative ideas coming from the children and it has been a wonderful opportunity for us all to express out feelings and thoughts. We looked at some wonderful poets and we explored: word play, figurative language and different genres of poetry. Take a look at some of the wonderful poems we produced:

Week 3- Spring 2

This week we have visited the South, we went all the way to Cornwall enjoying activities like surfing, kayaking and even we watched a show at the Minak Theatre. An open air theatre carved out of rock. We have also written our own magic story the children decided to write them for the author Oliver Jeffers. Just you wait for the video recordings and published work the children have done! 

Week 2- Spring 2

This week we have taken part in a resilience workshop, where the children showed such respect in this session. Great job Y3!

We loved celebrating world book day... we shared our stories, created new stories using random props, drew our own characters, made graphic novels and engaged in art work! All in one day!   

Week 1- Spring 2

We started our week off with wow day! The children either made 'Barbara Hepworth' soap sculptures or immersed themselves in finding out facts and recreating Nottingham's famous human and physical landmarks. Take a look below... 

What else will we do this week?   

Super Science

During Spring 1 we learnt all about forces, magnets, shadows and we even became inventors!

Week 6

Jigsaw - Teamwork Garden Designs 

Class 7 celebrated their unique talents and qualities to work together to design a garden for their chosen group of people. There were four different roles: Team Leader, Landscaper, Budgeter and Spokesperson. We worked together and budgeted from a choice of options to include. 

Little Inventors...

Check out our little inventions! We thought of lots of problems and then designed machines to overcome these. We planned, designed and made them, following this we wrote our own explanations of how to use them in literacy. Year 3 you are simply incredible!  

Week 5 - Reflections

This week we have been investigating reflective materials and how these can be used for different purposes. In articular, we thought about a baby's mobile and what would be the best materials we could use to make one. In addition, we have also been recognising children's mental health week and thinking about the different emotions we feel and how we would map this out as our own 'Islands of Personality'. There were lots of interesting discussions and thoughts that were shared, well done Year 3!

Class 7 have been learning all about measure. On Thursday, they applied their understanding and measured the length of the sides of shapes and calculated the perimeter. Well done Class 7 - super work!

Class 7 and 8 experimented with making shadows bigger and smaller. We found that when the object moves closer to the light source, the shadow gets bigger and when the object moves further away from the light source, the shadow gets smaller. 

Week 4 - Exploring Light

This week we have been discovering what the terms: opaque, translucent and transparent mean by exploring scientifically. The children discovered how different materials let different amounts of light through them. They made predictions, hypothesised and then explored. In addition, they explored how they could manipulate light to make different animal shapes. Take a look at the images below to see them in action:

Week 3 - Magnetic Madness

This week we have been continuing to explore magnets. The children have been exploring how magnets can be used in games. In addition, in music we have been learning a brand new song and the children have been learning all about the genre 'Disco', they were very surprised to learn that the discos that they attend now are all thanks to that era!

Week 2 - Exploring Magnets

This week we have been working scientifically to make our own discoveries and theories. We have been exploring magnets, investigating when magnets repel and attract and also finding out about magnetic and non-magnetic materials. In addition, in our Shared Reading sessions, we have enjoyed finding out all about the fictional character 'Ada Twist' , thinking about how questions can improve our understanding of the world. In art we have been creating experimenting with shadows and light. Take a look at us in action below:

Week 1 - Introduction to 'Super Science'

Firstly, we would like to thank all the parents and guardians who made it to our showcase on Monday. The children were delighted to be able to show you their tremendous Scribble-bots, we really appreciate your support. This week has been a busy first week back! The children have been beginning to learn about our new topic and have been doing lots of hands-on activities, including a forces experiment where we measured the amount of force a car needs when travelling on different surfaces.

Our Topic for this half term is...

Extreme Earth 

Bring your curiosity, your wonder and be prepared to be fascinated by the world’s extremities.

Week 7

This week we are going out with a bang...parties, Christmas dinner and PROUD assembly! It was wonderful to see so many parents and carers at the PROUD assembly thank you for helps us to celebrate your children and their individual personality and talents.   

Check out some of the incredible homework below! You are a creative bunch! 

Week 6

Drum roll please...this week has seen us visit the local church for our annual Christmas carol concert, lots of practising preceded this and I must say year 3 sounded beautiful in the church! We have put up decorations in class 7!    

Both classes have been writing information texts about mythical creatures and we have been working on our times tables. Ask them to chant them for you.  

Week 5

Do your children say 'nothing' in response to your questions about what they have done today? Have you ever wondered what they really get up to in year 3? Interestingly, they have learnt all about the fossilisation process and used picture and writing to express what they have learnt. In Spanish we have been learning a Christmas song and we have continued to develop our animations on the i-pads. To continue finding out about the day and life of a Year 3 child, keep returning to this website.  

Week 4

Well this week has been an interesting one...we had a revolting bunch of slime covered tissues left for us! We thought it could have been left by aliens, other teachers playing a prank, trolls, or even sent by other planets.

We have been learning to play 'When the saints go marching in' on the glockenspiels the children were great at following the conductors. Furthermore, we retold parts of the Christmas story in Spanish in particular where the inn keeper says there is no room. The children loved every minute of it!   

Thank you

A huge thank you to all the parents and carers who attended the maths workshop. The children always enjoy working alongside you, we loved having you in school and we hope you found it useful. 

Thanks again from the year 3 team

Week 3

This week we have had fun in the snow during our OPAL play morning, making snowmen, riding through slush and embracing the cold. In computing we have made our own animations, check out the videos below. We have moved onto multiplication in maths, we are already having so much fun! The children have been authors, writing their own description stories, where they tested out their story telling abilities with their peers...our performance elements is something we have been working on in shared reading this week.        

Week 2

This week we have discovered what earthquakes are and how they are measured. Ask your children what the Richter Scale is and what happens at each number on the scale. They have researched about the different plate boundaries and acted these out in groups. Next week we will be sharing your creative homework projects...What will you decide to create?     

Week 1

We have had so much fun finding out fascinating facts about volcanoes! Ask your children what they have learnt, they continue to amaze us with their fact finding knowledge. 

Our Topic for this half term is...

Stone Age to the Iron Age

Do you love history? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take a trip back in time? If you're intrigued, then make sure you are the first in line for all our exciting events. The Year 3 team will transport you into the past, trust us you don't want to miss it!

Week 7 - Summarising our topic

This week has been all about looking back on everything we have learnt. We have produced some beautiful double page spreads, showcasing our favourite parts. It has also been a lovely opportunity to look at all the amazing homework projects that have come in:

Week 6 - Team work makes the dream work!

This week we have been working collaboratively to create our own Stone Age dwellings. The children designed their own structures and then worked in groups to create them. They had to think about stability, material use and how to make them look realistic. We had a few wobbly structures, but overall the children did a fabulous job!

Week 5 - Engineers at work!

This week we have been learning all about Stonehenge. We have been discovering new facts, forming our own opinions on why it was created and we have even had a go at building our own (with lego). The children worked collaboratively to experience how it would have felt to work as a team to build Stonehenge during the Stone Age times. Take a look at us in action:

Well done!

Well done to Noah for being voted Class 8's and Iona and Lotus for Class 7's Eco Councillor, a compelling speech and some great ideas. You will do a wonderful job Noah, Iona and Lotus. Also, well done to Jaylen, Carter and Kian for winning our Opal play awards, keep up the great work!

Week 4 - Our Stone Age journey continues

This week we have been exploring artefacts in more detail, the children loved their observational drawings, we even took a virtual trip to the London Museum! In addition, we have also been learning our Spanish numbers 1-10, we really enjoyed working up a sweat when practising our Spanish counting song.

Week 3 - Historians in the making

Our week has begun in the best possible way, a silent disco. We enjoyed dancing to our favourite tunes, what a way to start a Monday morning! Apart from our dancing skills, this week we are continuing to explore artefacts and how to draw conclusions from them. We are also beginning to discover more about dwellings and how people in this era built their homes. Take a look at us in action below: 

Week 2 - Introduction to our new topic

This week we have been exploring our new topic 'Stone Age to Iron Age', we have begun our topic by conducting an archaeological dig and discovering an array of exciting artefacts. The children enjoyed being archaeologists for the day and worked hard to use their observation skills carefully. We also created some beautiful pieces of art through exploring cave drawings.

Week 1- You Can!

We have had an incredible week getting to know your children! They have engaged in art work, smashed team building games in P.E and thought about their dreams for this academic year and the future.

We are going to have an incredible year!