What a busy start we have had to the new school year; we have certainly packed a lot into the first few weeks of term!
Our first few days were spent getting to know each other, and focusing on our class hero for this year: Jessica Ennis Hill. We learnt all about her amazing life, thought about how she displays our school values, and even set up and took part in a mini heptathlon event on the school field which we thoroughly enjoyed!
It was also great fun sharing our ‘mini museum’ items with each other, and with the staff in the classroom.
We have got stuck into our first texts of the year in English, with some incredible hard work in phonics groups and great enthusiasm for our focus book in reading lessons, ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl. In writing lessons we are working hard building skills to write setting descriptions linked with Anthony Browne’s fantastic book ‘The Tunnel’. We have already had some opportunities to demonstrate fantastic dramatic skills in these lessons! In maths lessons, we have been securing our understanding of the place value of 3 digit numbers, using a variety of practical equipment to help us.
In science, we are learning all about human and animal bodies, starting off with their skeletons. We had great fun turning Noah into a skeleton, while we learnt the names of some key bones.
The staff who took the children swimming have been so impressed with the class’s behaviour in the swimming pool, where excellent listening is key. No doubt they will make fantastic progress!
October 2025
It hardly seems possibly that a whole half term has already passed by in year 3! We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the children and are constantly impressed with how many wonderful ideas they share every day. Year 3 have been really proud of their written work in English, especially when they recently wrote diaries from the point of view of a pilot explorer, inspired by the wonderful animation ‘Once in a Lifetime’. We are also continuing to enjoy reading Matilda in whole class reading lessons.
Maths has been focused on formal written methods of calculation recently, and we did a lot of work using place value counters and other equipment to help us understand the exchanges that we needed to do as part of the calculations. We have started a unit of work on fractions and have started to grasp the tricky concepts involved really well.
Our Geography work on volcanoes is now coming to an end, and as part of that unit of work we explored the school grounds looking for examples of different rock types. This will tie in well with some science work that we have coming up soon!
In science, we have continued to explore the way our bodies work, moving on to look at how muscles, joints and bones work together. We enjoyed making moving models of arms to demonstrate the way that muscles pull on the joints to help us to move.
We have enjoyed getting to grips with the new set of Chromebooks that we now have in school and are becoming confident logging on and accessing our Purple Mash resources in computing lessons. We have been learning all about emails; using the address book, composing new emails, replying and adding attachments.
What a busy half term! Have a lovely break everyone and see you in November!
November 2025
The second half term of the year has certainly got off to a jam-packed, flying start!
In English, we launched straight into a week of performance poetry work, and we enjoyed learning and performing poems by Rachel Rooney. Scan these QR codes to see some of our amazing group performances.
We have now moved on to work on a book we love, Matilda, and we are aiming to take on the persona of Miss Trunchbull in our writing as we write persuasive letters to the government on her behalf!
In maths, we have been getting used to working with fractions, and have used a range of equipment to help us do this. We have recently started learning about a big range of 2D shapes, including learning to draw them precisely and finding out about vertical, horizontal, parallel and perpendicular lines.
We enjoyed a special science lesson learning about Food Waste and especially our insightful interview with Mrs Emery on how the school deals with food waste. We are now learning about nutrition generally.
We have shown a lot of interest and curiosity in our new history topic, Stone Age to Iron Age. It is hard to imagine the way people lived all those years ago! We will be able to showcase our understanding of Stone Age life through a linked piece of English writing work in a few weeks’ time.
Along with all of this, we have begun touch typing practice in computing, continued swimming lessons and embarked on a gymnastics unit in PE, learnt about how to respect differences in others in PSHE and even fit in a Times Tables Rockstars day and some fantastic costumes!
Looking forward to the month ahead, and we may have even started singing some (whisper it) Christmas songs this week…
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