Welcome to our Year 3 page 2019-20!

Year 3

Welcome to Year 3 ! We are class of 29 children who are taught by Mrs Bates & Mrs Holmes. We are very lucky to be supported in our learning by Mrs Deyes and Mrs Russell.  We enjoy school and have already settled into Key Stage 2 life well. We are looking forward to lots of exciting things this year and all the new topics we will be learning about !

March 2020 Mrs Bates

The week started with World Book Day and the children had great fun dressing up as their favourite book characters. We enjoyed lots of reading activities throughout the day.

In P.E the children had a visit from a Judo trainer and had the chance to join in many fun Judo games. They really enjoyed their coaching session.

February 2020 Mrs Bates

Year 3 really enjoyed the chance to try out fencing this week with a specialist coach.

November 2019 Science Mrs Bates

In Science we have been learning about how soil is formed. We made careful observations of soil samples taken from the school gardens.

21-10-19 Mrs Bates

In English this week the children have been exploring fronted adverbials and using them to make their storywriting much more interesting for the reader. The class have enjoyed reading their Stone Age stories to each other and we have been looking at examples of how we can improve our description and punctuation.

In Maths we have used our number bonds to 20 to work on adding and subtracting 3-digit and 1 digit numbers. Our timestables are progressing really well. We are using Timestable Rockstars to improve the speed and accuracy of our x3 and x4 tables.

Our Collective Worship this week was planned and led by Asa, Phoebe and Lucas. They chose prayers, bible readings and a song to help us to think about ‘serving others.’

In music the children are making real progress in playing the Ukulele and Mrs Shakespeare is very pleased with their musical skills !

Mrs Bates 11-10-19

We have had another very busy week in Year 3.

In English we have been exploring how things were different between Stone Age and modern times. The children also thought about some of the things that would actually be the same and not change. They had lots of interesting ideas and organised their information in a Venn diagram.

In Maths we have been working on ordering numbers up to 1000 using ‘smaller than’ and ‘larger than’ symbols. They have accurately ordered numbers in ascending order up to and beyond 1000.

On Tuesday some of the class participated in Cross Country Running at Wharfemeadows. They ran extremely well despite the wet conditions and returned to school happy, tired and very muddy !

The other children in the class enjoyed an afternoon of activities on Pedestrian Safety and thought of lots of original ways to communicate those important safety messages.

We have also been happy to congratulate Lucas this week on his receiving a Blue Peter badge for his creative designs. He wore his badge proudly and read out the letter from the Blue Peter presenters. Well done Lucas !

4-10-19 Mrs Bates

We have had a super ‘Back to the 60’s’ topic week !

In English, the children enjoyed researching fashion and music in the 1960’s. They produced informative and colourful non-chronological reports in the form of posters. They enjoyed listening to Beatles music from the 60’s as they worked. The children have also enjoyed learning about the moon landing and Neil Armstrong and have begun to write some newspaper reports.

In Maths, we have been continuing to calculate 1, 10 and 100 more or less than a number using number lines, place value grids and function machines. We then moved on to compare numbers using the symbols for less than <, greater than >, and equals =.

In P.E, the children had fun learning different 1960’s dance moves including Hand Jives and The Twist. They used the moves to imitate 1960’s bands and showed great enthusiasm with their ‘air-guitars.’ We finished practising our dance moves outside in The Pavilion.

In Art, Year 3 have been looking at Pop Art and some of the work of Andy Warhol. They made their own versions of the ‘Campbells Soup’ pictures using bright 1960’s colours.

In Music, the children have enjoyed learning the Beatles song ‘Octopus’s Garden’. We also used our listening skills to create a picture based on ‘Lucy in the sky with diamonds.’

What a busy, fun week we have had!

6-9-19

Year 3 have settled in very quickly to their new classroom and routines. It was lovely to see everyone looking so well after the holiday break and we have had a very busy first week back.

We have been finding out about our Year 3 class saint - St Bernadette. We have been reading about her and also writing and painting pictures. Come and see our work in the corridor outside Year 3 !

In Maths this week we have been doing Place Value and using equipment to explore multiples of 100 and count up in hundreds. We have looked at how 3 digit numbers are partitioned into 100’s, 10’s and 1’s.

On the dry afternoon we explored the trees in the school grounds and collected natural things that we could find underneath the trees. We were amazed at how much we found that had blown down in the recent winds. Mrs Bates

12-9-19

This week in English we have started to read a book called Stone Age Boy. The children listened to the story and then imagined that they could meet the main character and thought up lots of questions they would like to ask him. They used the questioning words Who, What, When, Why, Which and How. They also practised using question marks in their punctuation.

In Maths we have been practising our arithmetic calculations and also exploring place value using Hundreds, Tens and Ones. The children are increasing their confidence at working out the value of a digit on place value grids.

 On Tuesday morning we enjoyed a visit from a tennis coach and had an outdoor tennis lesson. We were improving our batting skills and hitting the balls over a tennis net with help from a partner. It was great fun !

In RE William, Oscar and Evie used music, songs, liturgy and prayer to lead the collective worship on the theme of ‘Welcoming’. We read about how Jesus welcomed everyone and never turned others away.

Mrs Bates