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!