Year 3 News
This week in Year 3
22/03/2024 · No comments yet
We’ve had a great week in Year 3! English The children have been writing diary entries from the point of view of crew members on board The Endurance. We have been really impressed with the way the children got into role and with the descriptive language they have chosen. Here are some of our Read More
A busy week!
15/03/2024 · No comments yet
Science This week, Year 3 had the task to create a new vertebrate. Children enjoyed looking at the way it might move, its habitat, what it eats and what it looks like. We had a range of creatures with very interesting names! English This week, we learned more about Ernest Shackleton’s life and the Read More
World Book Day in Year 3!
08/03/2024 · No comments yet
We had a great time celebrating World Book Day on Thursday! Year 3 thought of some fabulous costumes and adjectives, including highly visible, smart, festive, dark, sporty, sparkly, cool and explosive! Oh, and of course Happy, Sneezy, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy and Dopey! We worked in groups to discuss the adjectives we had chosen and Read More
Will you be joining us?
01/03/2024 · No comments yet
Maths We have continued learning about length and perimeter, focusing on equivalents using metres, centimetres and millimetres. Children enjoyed using their understanding to measure the heights of their friends and write this in metres and centimetres. Join us on the Endurance! We have enjoyed learning about the robust Endurance and the places she sailed Read More
Ice Trap!
23/02/2024 · No comments yet
Welcome back to a new half term in Year 3! It’s been a great first week back, with the children showing lots of enthusiasm for our new topics, especially our new class texts, ‘Ice Trap!’ and ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. We started the week by looking at the following job advert: Most of us were not Read More
Happy Holidays
09/02/2024 · No comments yet
It has been a super busy week full of new learning and experiments and the children have really impressed with their effort and attitude when working in groups. Maths This week, we have come to the end of our maths unit focusing on multiplication and division. We concentrated on dividing using flexible partitioning and Read More
Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!
02/02/2024 · No comments yet
Year 3 have worked incredibly hard this week on their alternative versions of Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been so impressed with the effort the children have put in and with the fantastic writing everyone has produced. It has been really lovely to see the children enjoying writing, with some children keen to Read More
Once upon a time…
26/01/2024 · No comments yet
It has been a wet week, and even with all the indoor play and lunchtimes, the children have worked hard to remain focused. Maths This week, we ended our first multiplication and division units with a focus on the 3rd, 4th, and 8th timetables. Children enjoyed grouping items together and writing down multiplication and Read More
Oh yes we did!
19/01/2024 · No comments yet
It’s been a brilliant second week back in Year 3. 3SB thoroughly enjoyed their trip to the pantomime and, just like 3B the week before, did a fantastic job of representing Farfield. We are now ready to start our work on planning and writing our own versions of traditional tales! In maths, we have Read More
Welcome back!
12/01/2024 · No comments yet
Year 3 have settled back in and have enjoyed taking part in lots of new learning. Maths We are continuing with our unit on multiplication and division and have focused on the 3 times tables this week. Children worked in groups and partners to create arrays highlighting the number of equal groups. Children then Read More
