April News 

What a start we have made to April!

We hit the ground running with a new story in English, called ‘Leon and the Place Between’ which has really captured everyone’s imaginations. We loved wandering around the classroom exploring different parts of the magical circus in the story and creating new magical beings for Leon to meet and chat to in our writing!

We have moved our understanding of column addition and subtraction up a gear and we are now dealing with hundreds numbers exclusively. We are also really impressing the adults with our grasp of the 8 times table so far, which is our focus times table for this term. Great work everyone!

In science, we started the term by finishing our unit of work on light. This involved carrying out a carefully planned experiment to see how the distance between an object and a light source changed the shadow the object made. We have just embarked on a new unit all about plants, where we will get the chance to do lots of growing and observing different plants, discovering all sorts about how plants survive and their life cycles. Geography this week involved some field work, where we walked around Ellington looking for examples of physical and human features in the village, and why we might see these in particular types of places. The sunny weather helped a lot!

We are doing plenty of energetic PE lessons with Coach Charlie since we came back from the Easter holidays, as well as really impressing Mrs Richardson with our skills in spreadsheets in computing, and having some super discussions during our ‘Picture News’ assemblies. Great start to the term Year 3, keep it up! 

May News 

What a quick half term it has been!    

In English, we have been working on the animation “The Girl and the Robot”. The children have designed some fabulous robots and have just completed writing 
instructions about how to service them. In our reading lessons, we are continuing to enjoy the hilarious adventures of Hiccup in ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ by Cressida Cowell.    

In maths we have explored formal methods for multiplication and division. We are now concentrating on further developing our understanding of fractions.

We are learning about plants in science. We are growing our own plants and have done some exciting experiments. We have also used counters to explore how water travels through the plant.    

In music, we have learnt what ballads are and we have thought about actions and parts that we can use to tell the story. This example is the ballad ‘Space Odyssey’ by David Bowie. We hope you like it… 

We have been very active and had great fun in our PE lessons with Coach Charlie.

Enjoy a restful half term!