Author: year3

This year for our Christmas-themed RE lessons, year 3 took a different approach to their learning.  The whole year group got together in the hall for a creative afternoon, watching videos, listening to passages from the Bible whilst exploring several different zones set up across the room – Word Zone, Colour Zone, Busy Zone, Chat and Listening Zone, and a Reflection Zone.

The aim?  To answer one or more the the questions below about the birth of Jesus:

• What happened at the time of Jesus’ birth?
• Why would God come to Earth as a baby?
• Why is Christmas so important to Christians?

After a short introductory video, two Bible passages – Luke 1:26-38 and Luke 2:1-21, and a brief discussion, the children were free to explore different areas and think about how to answer the questions.  They were able to create pictures, write stories, poems, carols and fact sheets, build a Bible scene with lego, blocks or cubes, and write reflections.  At any time, they could join us in the Chat and Listening Zone to ask questions to help them understand more.

We were also joined for a while by Mr Dale and Mrs Turner, along with Rev’d Chris and the Archdeacon, who came down to find out what the children had been doing.

We all had a very enjoyable afternoon and came away with lots of thoughts and a better understand about why Christmas is so important to Christians.

This year’s Anti-Bullying Week took place from 16th to 19th November, based around the theme One Kind Word.

We started the week with Odd Sock Day where we celebrate our differences – everyone is unique and we all have different talents, no-one should be bullied for being different.  During the week, the children were all Secret Angels. They picked a name out of the hat and had to be super kind to that child all week, but without making it too obvious! I wonder how many children guessed who their Secret Angel was?  All week, we were on the lookout for our Anti-Bullying Superheroes too! 😀

As part of our Anti-Bullying Week, we have also been looking at British Values and celebrating the ideas of Democracy, Rule of Law, Tolerance, Respect and Individual Liberty.

School Council met on Thursday to discuss how the school should manage any instances of bullying.  Prior to the meeting, the classes held a discussion so that their school council reps could take along their ideas – democracy in action!

The children loved singing along to this year’s song too – One Kind Word with CBeebies star Andy Day and his band – Andy and the Odd Socks! (The video can be found on YouTube if you would like to sing-along too!)
#AntiBullyingWeek #OneKindWord

This term our new topic is Rainforests.  We will be looking at where rainforests are found in the world (yes, some are even in the UK!), why they are so important along with their key features. In Science, we are continuing to look at Animals including Humans, moving on to look at nutrition and what makes a healthy balanced diet. Below you will find an overview of all subjects for the term along with a PDF download option in the link underneath the picture.  This is looking to be an exciting term and we can’t wait to get started. We will share our learning with you both here on the website and also over on ClassDojo in our class stories and in children’s individual portfolios.

Term 2 Overview – Rainforests (PDF Download)

The Year 3 Team

This year in maths we will be focusing on Key Instant Recall Facts with a different focus each term.

Year 3’s term 2 focus is: ‘I know the multiplication and division facts for the 3 times table’.

To complement the children’s learning at school, please could you help them at home as the key to these facts becoming embedded in the children’s memory is to practise little and often.

If you have any questions, please contact your class teacher via ClassDojo.

Y3 KIRFs (Term 2 – 3x Table Facts) (PDF Download)

Many thanks

The Year 3 Team

On Wednesday 20th October, Year 3 were surprised to receive a visit from a time-traveller.  Coincidentally, this time-traveller had come from the year AD1040 and was an Anglo-Saxon – how strange as that is who we have been learning about during this term!

Our Anglo-Saxon visitor brought lots of things with him from the past.  He taught the children about Anglo-Saxon tools, battle garments and weapons, food and clothing.  Fortunately, he could speak very good modern English and was able to understand all their questions!

Our fabulous finish ended with a re-enactment of an Anglo-Saxon shield wall.  The children used their shields, interlocked to protect themselves and charged the (imaginary) enemy.

The final week of term 1 was Maths’ Week and the children took part in various workshops and maths activities throughout the week.  Our first workshop was The Dark Codes where the children had to solve a number of puzzles together to stop the Robotrons from attacking the school – you can see the alien spacecraft in one of the early photos and then later, after all the puzzlers have been solved, the children manage to unlock the code to destroy the spacecraft!

Later in the week, the children took part in a workshop run by the Happy Puzzle Company, solving puzzles together in small groups – balancing penguins on an iceberg (not as easy as it looks!); solving a town scene jigsaw puzzle without a picture to guide them, fitting the trapezoids into the hexagon without any of the same coloured pieces touching; connecting together tubes so there are no holes.  They loved the interactive puzzles and enjoyed trying to solve them together.

In class, the children spent time completing problem-solving activities and a maths-themed escape room “Lost in the Autumn Forest”.

To round off the week, Year 3 were the final two classes to take part in the sponsored bounce.  The children had great fun bouncing on the bouncy castle in the KS1 Hall with help from the Year 6 children.

We love seeing maths in action and putting all our skills to the test!

On Monday 18th October, Year 3 were lucky to take part in a drama workshop led by Ian from KIC Theatre.  He introduced them to our new book for next term – Leon and the Place Between.  The children were learning all about using space to express themselves whilst also understanding what it is like to have very little space to work in!  They all had a fantastic time and were able to use this to express themselves in their opening lessons about Leon during the week.

This year in maths we will be focusing on Key Instant Recall Facts with a different focus each term.

Year 3’s term 1 focus is: ‘I know number bonds for all numbers to 20′.

To complement the children’s learning at school, please could you help them at home as the key to these facts becoming embedded in the children’s memory is to practise little and often.

If you have any questions, please contact your class teacher via ClassDojo.

Y3 KIRFs (Term 1 – Number Bonds to 20) (PDF Download)

Many thanks

The Year 3 Team

This term in maths we will be continuing our focus on Key Instant Recall Facts.

Year 3’s focus for term 6 is: ‘I can recall facts about durations of time′.

Year 3 Key Instant Recall Facts – Term 6 (PDF)

To complement the children’s learning at school, please could you help them at home as the key to these facts becoming embedded in the children’s memory is to practise little and often.

If you have any questions, please contact your class teacher via ClassDojo.

Many thanks

The Year 3 Team

So this is it, the final term of the year and we cannot wait to see you back!  We have an exciting term to look forward to as we learn, play and continue to create great memories in our time together.

We are continuing with our theme about the Romans and we will see this particularly as part of our English non-fiction learning, building on what we have learned so far. Although we have moved on from plants, we will continue to look after our vegetable beds and plats, but our science focus will move on to ‘Light’, learning how it helps us, reflections, shadows and some fun investigations along the way.  In RE, we will be returning to dive deeper into the Sikh faith and look out how Sikh people worship and celebrate.  We will continue to focus on reading, with all children reading to an adult every day (please also continue to read at home everyday for 10 minutes) in addition to whole class reading and small group guided reading sessions.  In maths, our focus returns to fractions to refresh our lockdown learning and build on this.  We will also be looking at time and shape.  We are looking forward to sharing our adventures with you on our ClassDojo pages.

Term 6 Overview – Romans (PDF)

The Year 3 Team
Chestnut – Mr Houghton & Mrs Gunn
Rowan – Miss Ryan & Miss Banks