We are now in Key Stage 2 and in Year 3 we always try our very best and come to school ready to learn with big smiles on our faces. We are excited for the year ahead and can’t wait to see all the wonderful work that you produce.
Miss Hathaway, Miss Swift, Mrs Ryan, Miss Crabb, Ms Siddiqui Miss Dudley and Mrs Carpenter.
Please click here to view our half term overview.
Please encourage your child to read every night for around 10 minutes (this could be with you or alone too.) Please send reading books into school every day as we listen to the children across the week. Reading books will be changed throughout the week when children have read at home and school. When reading with your child please try and ask lots of questions to help support their comprehension.
Please also spend time every night going over times tables with your child. There are lots of fun, free online resources that you can use as well as TTRS.
Maths.co.uk homework will be set every Friday – please try and access this as it will support your child in their Maths work.
Spellings will be given out every Friday.
TTRS – we will holding weekly TTRS competitions so please try and access for a few minutes every day as it really supports your child in learning their tables.
For their computing lessons this half term Year 3 have been developing their coding and programming skills with an introduction to Scratch. Children have compared Scratch to Scratch Jr, they have created programs using a range of events and control loops focusing on being able to get Sprites to move, change appearance, plot movements using coordinates and use Speech blocks.
We had a great afternoon creating healthy wraps. We cleaned and chopped out our food, while thinking about hygiene and safety.
This superstar has won lots of medals for swimming competitions with her club! Keep up the hard work.
This morning we have been celebrating Eid with lots of different activities. We have made cards, decorated hands and drew different mosques. We hope you all have a lovely half term and Eid!!
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We have had a great trip across the River Mersey! We could see the mouth of the river, the raised embankment and the city skyline. What an experience to have and lovely weather.
We created models of Roald Dahl characters using paper and tape. Then we used modroc to wrap our model so we had a hard exterior and it would be ready to paint. We will be painting them when they are dry, so watch this space!
This morning year 3 has so much fun meeting our character Issac from our new English book Rhythm of the rain. We thought about questions we would like to ask and wrote them in our books. We then had the chance to ask our questions to Issac.
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We continued with our work editing photos. We created a background, added in our own photos, along with other pictures and then we edited a cropped them. Great work Year 3!
For Earth Day we estimated the noise level of some different roads around our school. We then used our data loggers to measure the actual noise level in dB. We spoke about noise pollution and what means for us.
We explored different sketching techniques today. We sketched Mr Smith with continuous lines, separate straight lines and with a wash. Great outcomes, well done guys!
What a great turn out from our Year 3 parents. We have been practising our signs for everyday interactions and to three songs. We performed amazingly well – great work everyone!
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We are having lots of fun dressing up as our favourite characters from our favourite books!! We have lots of fun activities planned for this afternoon too. 
We explored some different 2D nets today and created 3D shell structures. We made sure we folded lines and glued tabs to create shapes that could stand up by themselves.
This afternoon we have has so much fun in our workshop. We have learned all about the dragon dance and different dances that are performed to celebrate the new year. We even got to have a go at it ourselves! We have also been looking at Chinese lanterns and designed our own for the celebration.
This morning we have been learning all about internet safety and what to do if there is something we don’t like online. We spoke about how to use AI safely then worked with our partners to talk about things that are okay and not okay for AI to do.
We have had an amazing afternoon! We had a visit from an archaeologist who brought lots of artefacts from the Stone Age. We looked at and held things that were thousands of years old. The children demonstrated a great attitude and an already super knowledge when answering questions.
In Year 3 we were very lucky to have some trainee teacher teach us about sustainability and how we can reuse some plastics to prevent them damaging our environment if not recycled properly.
We created a new version of “What a Wonderful World”. We used different adjectives to describe the world around us. We then performed our new song in KS1 and KS2 assemblies.
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Within our history lesson, we looked at the first stage of the Stone Age. We have then applied what we know to our art lessons where we used different techniques to sketch with charcoal and create some cave art.
WHAT AN AMAZING TURN OUT! Thank you to all our Year 3 parents and carers for coming and helping finish off our DT mechanism cards.
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We finished off our second prototype today for our DT unit. We labelled our work with key vocabulary and then created some designs to stick onto our arms.
We are reading Into the Forest by Anthony Browne. The children are enjoying looking at his fantastic illustrations and seeing what they can spot. The pictures tell the story and keep us guessing about what happens next.
We have used today to compile a list of words that personify the sun – both human actions and emotions. We started constructing sentences with these words so we were ready for our next lesson.
We have written scripts for two characters in our book. We have used our inference skills to create a conversation that might have happened between them. Then we had some children perform their scripts to the class.
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To think about those who have lost their lives, we created some rhyming poetry. We based our poems on poppy fields, just like our art work.
