Year 3 News
If I was in Year 3…
12/09/2025 · No comments yet
We have had another great week in Year 3! The children are settling into their new classrooms very well and showing super enthusiasm for their learning! MathsIn Maths this week, the children have continued with their place value topic, focussing on 3-digit numbers. At the beginning of the week, children explored number lines up Read More
Welcome to Year 3!
05/09/2025 · 1 comment
It’s been a busy first week back, and we have been very impressed with the attitude of our new Year 3s! Our first day was spent discussing our school rules, hives and sharing expectations. Children loved sharing what they got up to during their holidays and taking a short tour of their new building, Read More
One week to go!
11/07/2025 · No comments yet
Maths This week, Year 3 have moved on to a new unit on statistics. We began the week by working through tally charts and making comparisons. Children are already familiar with bar charts from our science and computing lessons, and they have enjoyed interpreting the data before moving on to create their own using Read More
Poems, PSHE & Preparing!
04/07/2025 · No comments yet
Maths In maths, we have continued with our learning of time, focusing on digital time and durations. Children read through several problems, using number lines to make jumps to the nearest hour and added on the additional minutes. We have also been working on changing time on a digital clock to match an analogue Read More
Another busy week in Year 3
27/06/2025 · 1 comment
Maths In maths this week, children have continued with their learning of time, focusing on the minute intervals, hours in a day, and what this might look like during am and pm hours. Children were given several reasoning questions, which included times like 11:00, and had to discuss with their partners whether it was Read More
Week 3
20/06/2025 · No comments yet
Maths This week, Year 3 have been learning about time. We began the week recognising Roman numerals and identifying numbers on an analogue clock. Children then moved on to making the time in 5-minute intervals using the terms ‘past’ and ‘to’. This was challenging for classes, and we continued to work with our clocks, Read More
Ready, steady, paint!
13/06/2025 · No comments yet
Maths This week, Year 3 have learned more about parallel and perpendicular lines, followed by a discussion of where and why they might be needed in real-life situations. Children used their understanding and identified more than one pair of lines and different pictures with reason. They ended the week by recognising 2D and 3D Read More
Authors, angles & armour!
06/06/2025 · No comments yet
It’s been a wet but wonderful week, and the children have enjoyed getting back into learning! We’ve been performing in music, researching history, problem-solving in maths, and, of course, having lots of fun! Maths 3B have been learning about different types of angles and enjoyed identifying examples of acute, right, and obtuse angles. Children Read More
Year 3 Weekly Blog – Volcanoes, Leaves and a Lot of Sewing!
23/05/2025 · 1 comment
EnglishWe’ve continued our exciting newspaper unit, this time putting ourselves in the shoes of Roman reporters on the day Mount Vesuvius erupted! After planning the layout, we worked in pairs to write our own newspaper articles. We worked hard to include headlines, paragraphs and dramatic witness statements like “The volcano just exploded in front Read More
Year 3 -Powerful writing and erupting volcanoes
16/05/2025 · No comments yet
English This week we explored direct speech – using speech bubbles to demonstrate what people might have thought or said when mount Vesuvius erupted. We then learnt how to punctuate direct speech for our newspaper reports. We “popped” thought bubbles and turned them into quotes, carefully using inverted commas (speech marks), synonyms for ‘said’ Read More
