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

Thursday: 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

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.

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 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!