Week 7

It has been another brilliant week in Year 3 this week where the children have learnt about lots of different things and done lots of different activities!

In writing, the children have finished their second writing unit of the year by writing out their full instructions for how to prank Mrs Twit! They've published their brilliant instructions in the form of a graphic novel complete with pictures!

In reading, we have been learning all about the Cheddar Man - a Mesolithic skeleton that was found in Gough's cave in Cheddar Gorge. The children were fascinated about the role of DNA in finding out more about this Stone Age man!

In maths, we have been continuing our learning on addition and subtraction by learning how to add 1s and 10s to 3-digit numbers and in our times table lessons we have been concentrating on learning how to count on and count backwards in 3s.

Our history lessons this week have focused on learning more about the Neolithic monument of Stonehenge in Wiltshire. The children showed lots of curiosity about how and why the monument was built and were especially astounded by the theory that the stones were placed their by giants!

Out science lesson this week was great fun! We learnt about what the skeleton is there fore - protection, support and movement as well as some of the major bones in the body. After this, we had lots of fun post it noting our bodies with the bones to reinforce our learning!

 

Week 6

Year 3 have had another jam packed week, taking part in their first walk of the year and beginning their second writing unit!

On Monday and Tuesday, the children took part in their very first walk of the year, doing a 5km circular route that took in Hawksworth Wood, crossing a railway bridge and walking alongside both the canal and the river! The children not only showed lots of determination as they took on the long walk but also lots of curiosity about the things that they were seeing around them!

In maths this week the children have completed their final place value lessons by looking at comparing and ordering 3-digit numbers and revisiting something which we had found a little difficult last week, number lines! The children have done brilliantly with this whole unit and although it is now time to move on to addition and subtraction, we will continue to revise and revisit elements of place value to make sure that this is consolidated. In our times table sessions this week the children have continued to consolidate their knowledge on their 2s, 5s and 10s in preparation for us moving on to the 3 times table today and next week.

We launched our second writing unit last Friday when the children learnt the importance of being really clear and putting events in a chronological order when giving instructions after our 'how to make a jam instructions' went very wrong! We've spent time this week learning about time adverbs and imperative verbs and Miss Connell and I have definitely learnt that our classes can be very bossy when they want to be!

In reading, the children have been using non-fiction texts - an information text about Stone Age houses and a non-fiction picture book about Stonehenge - to learn more about life in the Stone Age. The children have really enjoyed reading these texts and it has been lovely to see just how curious the children were about their learning from all of the questions that they asked!

In our wider curriculum this week, the children have learnt how to ask someone how they are feeling in Spanish, how to give clear instructions when using a digital assistant in computing and how to work as a team when playing dodgeball in PE. 

 

Week 5

We've had another busy but brilliant week here in Year 3 and it has been really lovely to see how curious the children have been about the new learning that we have been doing!

In writing, the children produced second drafts of their work from the previous week where they focused on improving the content of their writing. They went on then to edit their work for punctuation and spelling errors before creating their final pieces! Lot's of fun was had when creating these as the children first used teabags to make their 'WANTED' posters appear old before using their very best handwriting to write up their work! 

In maths, the children have been continuing to expand on their place value knowledge by working on using known mathematical facts to help them fill in number lines and estimate where numbers should go on a number line. The children really enjoyed using a little chant to help them remember to find the difference, count the intervals and divide! During our times table practice, we have gone back to recapping on the 5 times table in order to consolidate our knowledge of counting in 5s and to then be able to use it to count beyond 5 x 12.

Our history lesson this week focused on understanding more about the Stone Age. We travelled back in time to the Palaeolithic to find out about hunter gatherers, to the Mesolithic to see how people were beginning to stay in different places for longer amounts of time and then finally to the Neolithic to find out what new things began to happen towards the end of the Stone Age!

In computing this week, the children have been taking part in more work around online safety, strengthening their understanding of who they should or could share information with and who they shouldn't. 

 

Week 4

We've had another busy but fun week in Year 3 and it has been really lovely to see the children creating some wonderful work throughout the week!

In writing, the children have continued to practice the key writing skills that they need in order to produce a detailed character description of the terrible Mrs Twit for their 'WANTED' posters. They have used their expanded noun phrases that they created last week to make sentences about her and then use apostrophes for possession as another way of describing her! Finally, in today's lesson the children used all of this to create their first drafts of their poster in their partners!

In maths, the children have continued to develop their understanding of a hundred. They have partitioned three digit numbers into their place value and flexibly partitioned them in various different ways. For our times table practice, we have been consolidating their learning from the previous year and have been recapping their ten times tables!

Our history lesson this week took Year 3 time travelling from the present day all the way back to the Palaeolithic - we used lego bricks to represent 100 years on our chronological timeline and discovered that there weren't enough bricks in school to go all the way back to the Stone Age!

In PE, the children have been building up their foundational skills and have been practicing running, balancing and throwing as well as building up their knowledge of different sporting rules by practicing some football in our multi-sports lessons.

 

Week 3

We have had a fantastic week again in Year 3 and have completed our very first Year 3 school trip!

Our trip to Nell Bank for their Stone Age workshop has definitely been the highlight of the week and it was lovely to not only see how engaged the children were with learning about their new topic but also how they took all of the lessons on respect and being ready to learn that we have done over the last few weeks and showed the Nell Bank staff just what they were capable of! Whilst at Nell Bank, the children took part in a carousel of activities in the morning - they decorated their 'cave' with cave paintings, wove a basket to gather their berries and created fire to cook their food and warm themselves - and then created their own dens in the afternoon using natural resources.

In maths, the children have begun their first maths unit on place value and have been learning practically about the value of a hundred.

In writing, we have started our first writing unit where the children are going to create 'WANTED' posters to help capture the person who made a mess of Mrs Fletcher's garden, Mrs Twit. The children have begun this unit by recapping on adjectives and expanded noun phrases.

Finally, in Science the children have created their own animals restaurants as part of their learning on how animals get their nutrition.

 

Week 2

It has been another amazing week of learning in Year 3 this week and we are really impressed by how well the children are adapting to their new routines in Key Stage 2!

In Maths, the children retrieved their learning from Year 2 on addition and subtraction, using manipulatives to secure their knowledge before we move on to the Year 3 place value content next week. We've also spent lots of time practising our times tables this week, beginning with our 2s before moving on to our 5s - we're using lots of different chants and funny voices as well as Supermovers to help us learn our tables!

Inspired by the story The Day the Crayons Quit, Year 3 challenged themselves to independently write and edit simple sentences that were correctly punctuated before moving on to create sentences which included coordinating conjunctions.

We also launched our first class novel this week, where the children took on the roles of detectives to find out who had made a big mess in Mrs Fletcher's garden!

In History and Geography this week, the children took part in an escape room where they had to answer questions to get the keys that would close the time portal - the children did really well with this and it was lovely to see and hear just how much they knew!

We are thoroughly impressed with the effort and wonderful work Year 3 has produced so far!

 

Week 1

It has been an absolute joy watching the children settle so brilliantly into Year 3 this week. We have spent time reflecting on our school values, focusing on what it means to be ready to learn, respectful and kind every day. Alongside settling into our new routines, we have jumped straight into recapping our Maths and English learning from Year 2 to build a strong foundation for the year ahead. The highlight of our week was definitely our very first visit to the school library; the children were bursting with excitement to explore the shelves and couldn't wait to dive into their brand-new books!