What have Y3 been up to?
Week 4:26.09.2025
Happy Friday! It has been another excellent week in Year 3 continuing to look at the Stone Age! We have been influenced by cave paintings in our art lessons making our own stencils of our hands using oil pastels.
In writing we have begun to learn about the features of instructional writing while reading our new book "How To Wash A Woolly Mammoth". We have looked at adverbs and imperative verbs and even got the chance to wash some cuddly toys!
In maths we have continued exploring using the column method, this week for subtraction. Our layouts have become spectacular!
Finally, we have been sporty superstars in P.E. learning about hand-eye co-ordination and footwork as we have been learning about net and wall games.
Please do have an amazing weekend getting some well deserved rest. We all look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Miss Jones, Mr. Jones and the rest of the Year 3 team.
Week 3: 19.09.2025
It has been an interesting week in Year 3 as the children have continued to expand their knowledge of the Stone Age! They looked at the historical significance of Skara Brae and how people lived during the Neolithic era.
The students were hard at work as they wrote, edited and published their informal letters from the perspective of a colourful crayon! During Maths, Year 3 looked at using formal methods of addition to add 3-digit numbers together and apply what they have learnt from using place value to lay out their work.
There was much merriment in the classroom as the children became Vikings during Music. They took turns to listen to the beat of a song using Viking chants to keep in time.
Please have a wonderful weekend and we shall see you all on Monday,
Miss Jones, Mr. Jones and the rest of the Year 3 team.
Week 2: 12.09.2025
This week the children have been continuing their work on place value and applying their knowledge to adding 1, 10 and 100 more to a 3-digit number. During Writing, we have looked at expanded noun phrases, adverbs and using correct punctuation for informal writing.
It was a trip back to the Stone Age during History as we looked at how hunter gatherers used their skills to forage for food and survive with their tribe. Sticking with the Stone Age theme, art was based upon cave paintings.
It has been wonderful to see how many of the children are utilising TT-Rockstars and we politely remind parents and carers to keep this a priority throughout Year 3.
Finally, wonderful news as 3 S/T won an extra breaktime for showing excellent behaviour throughout the week!
Have a wonderful, restful weekend.
Miss Jones, Mr. Jones and the rest of the Year 3 team.
Week 1: 05.09.2025
What an incredible start to the new academic year we have had this week! The children have shown wonderful resilience in their new educational surroundings as well demonstrating amazing behaviour. If this is how the students mean to continue in Year 3 then this is going be a sensational year!
During Maths, we have been learning about partitioning into tens and ones using part-whole models and representing this in different ways. We have also started morning maths to improve fluency which has shown to be exceptionally effective so far.
During Reading and Writing, we have looked at "The Day The Crayons Came Home" which has informed our writing, especially when looking at adjectives, the features of informal letters and author inference.
We even managed to learn about the stone age which links into our topic for this half term. How exciting! Finally, can all students please ensure they bring their spelling books and reading records back into school every day so they can be checked.
The whole Year 3 team can't wait to see everyone bright and early on Monday. Have a wonderful weekend,
Miss Jones, Mr. Jones and the rest of the Year 3 team.