Year Three Class Page
The latest news, home learning, learning and events will be posted on this page.
Wednesday 22nd October
Well done Year 3! You have all settled in amazingly into KS2 and worked really hard this half term. I am very proud of each and every one of you!
In English, we have started to publish our own narratives, and will finish these off when we return the half term break.
In Maths, we have continued to look at addition and subtraction. As well as building up our multiplication and division knowledge, focusing on 2’s, 5’s and 10’s using Times tables Rock stars.
For our foundation subjects we have explored the following topics:
History – We produced a non-chronological report about the Stone Age. We also looked at the life of Betty Campbell and the impact she had on British Black History.
Art – We sketched cave art images on a variety of different textures, and started to produce our own class cave art, to represent everyone in Year 3.
Home Learning
Doodle – Your child will still be able to access this platform over the half term break, to continue to earn stars and remain in the green zone.
Reading - Please continue to read at least five times during the week, and sign and date when you have listened to your child read, in their reading records.
Changemaker project – There is still time to earn the friendship sticker if they bring in their evidence straight after half term.
Wishing you all a wonderful half term break. I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 4th November.
Mrs Collett
Friday 17th October
We have had a fantastic week in Year 3 with the highlight of the week being our trip to Celtic Harmony, to experience life in the Stone Age.
A special thank you again to Eryk, Giana, Jacob and Sylvie’s mums who kindly accompanied us on this trip.
In English, we have been working hard on drafting our own stories that incorporate the focus toolkits for this half term. Next week we will be editing and writing these up in our publishing books.
In Maths, we have been focusing on adding and subtracting 1, 10 and 100’s from a 3-digit number, while also making links between our new topic and what we have previously learnt in our place value unit. Next week we will be exploring adding across a 10 and 100.
For our foundation subjects we have explored the following topics:
History – Trip to Celtic Harmony and completing an evaluation of this trip allowing us to reflect on everything that we have learnt.
Art – Completed our step on exploring cave art from around the world looking at similarities and differences.
Science – We shone a light on Mary Anning, who was a famous English palaeontologist and used a light paint wash to give our clay fossil imprints a finishing touch.
Home Learning
Doodle - Please continue to support your child’s learning by accessing the Doodle Learning platform and remaining in the green zone for English, Maths and Times tables
Reading - Please continue to hear your child read at least five times during the week, and sign and date when you listen to them in their reading records.
Spellings - No spellings this week as we finish for the half term break on Wednesday 22nd Oct.
Change maker project - Please send in any evidence your child has collected of the task they chose from the Friendship section of the Change maker project. We are really looking forward to seeing and celebrating their efforts with them.
Please could I kindly ask for donations of boxes of tissues – Many thanks!
Wishing you all a restful weekend
Mrs Collett
Friday 10th October
It has been a very busy but enjoyable week in Year 3.
In English, we have now covered all of our focus toolkits and have started to apply our newly acquired skills into creating our own characterisation narrative. We will be continuing to work on this next week.
In Maths, we have now completed our unit on place value and had great fun today going on a number hunt to find and sort ourselves into a human number line counting in intervals of 50. We will be moving on to our next unit that focuses on addition and subtraction.
For our foundation subjects we have explored the following topics:
History – Iron age and how this influenced trade and changes to settlements
Art – Cave art from around the world
Science – How fossils are formed over thousands of years. We also made our own fossils out of clay!
Home Learning:
Doodle - Please continue to support your child’s learning by accessing the Doodle Learning platform and remaining in the green zone for English, Maths and Times tables
Reading - Please continue hear your child read at least five times during the week, and sign and date when you listen to them in their reading records.
Spellings - This week’s focus will continue to be on suffix endings. Below are words to practise with your child, both in isolation as well as writing them in a sentence:
crossed, trusted, asked, walked, laughed, spotted, grabbed, crunched
Change maker project - Please start to send in any evidence your child has collected of the task they chose from the Friendship section of the Change maker project. We are really looking forward to seeing and celebrating their efforts with them.
Next Week:
Please could I kindly ask for donations of boxes of tissues; we have a number of runny noses as we enter the autumn season – Many thanks!
Finally just a quick reminder that we have our class trip to Celtic Harmony on Tuesday 14th Oct. We will be leaving at 8.30am by coach, so please could you drop your child to school by 8.15am. We are all really looking forward to an exciting day out experiencing what it was like to live in the Stone Age.
Have a relaxing weekend
Mrs Collett
Friday 3rd October
It has been another great week in Year 3, and we have really enjoyed delving further into our foundation subjects, as well as exploring other elements of our writing tool kit.
In English, the children were challenged to combine three of the main toolkits into a one paragraph. They were required to combine the following elements: dialogue ensuring they used inverted commas (speech marks), a reported clause (how the character said it) and the actions the character was doing, a simile, and ‘show don’t tell’, which involves using vocabulary to indicate how the character is feeling without naming the emotion. We will continue to work on the remainder of our toolkits and extending our creative writing skills next week.
In Maths, we have been working on calculations involving 100, 10 or 1 more or less than a given 3-digit number. We then moved onto looking at intervals of 20, 50 and 100 on a number line up to 1000; either identifying the missing numbers or estimating what these could be based on their position on the line. Next week we will be completing our unit on Place Value and moving onto Addition & Subtraction.
For our foundation subjects we have looked at erosion in Science, carrying out our own experiment to test the permeability of 3 types of rock.
In Art, we continued exploring our topic on cave art and took the opportunity to reflect on our own work in our sketchbooks, and the techniques we have learnt so far.
In History, we examined the Bronze Age and how it brought significant advancements that improved life for people in prehistoric times.
Home Learning
Doodle - Please continue to support your child’s learning by accessing the Doodle Learning platform and remaining in the green zone.
Please do let me know if you are having any issues with accessing this program at home.
Reading - Please continue hear your child read at least five times during the week, and sign and date when you listen to them in their reading records, so that they can earn their next star stamp.
Spellings - This week’s focus will continue to be on suffix endings. Below are words to practise with your child, both in isolation as well as writing them in a sentence:
friendly, hopeful, amazement, fearless, thoughtful, replied, brightly, cleverly
Change maker project - We are really looking forward to seeing the wonderful activities your child has been working on from the ‘Friendship’ value section.
Please continue supporting them as they collect and record evidence of their chosen activity.
There is still just over a week left to complete the challenge, and we will be awarding special stickers for completed activities during the week before half term.
Finally, please could I kindly ask for donations of boxes of tissues; we have a number of runny noses as we enter the autumn season – Many thanks!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend
Mrs Collett
Friday 26th September
We have had another busy week in Year 3 and everyone has been working extremely hard.
In English, we focused on two of our main tool kits for this unit of work on Characterisation. The first toolkit at the start of the week, enabled us to explore how we could record the dialogue in a story through using inverted commas (speech marks), a reported clause (how the character said it) and the actions they were doing at the point of the story. From Wednesday, we moved onto our second toolkit that focuses on similes, and we started to work on appropriate compassions for these types of sentences. We will continue with this next week.
In Maths, we have been working on hundreds, tens and ones, this will continue into the start of next week, with a further focus on calculations involving 100, 10 or 1 more or less than a given 3-digit number.
For our foundation subjects we have looked at biological, chemical and physical weathering in Science, and the impact this has on different types of rock.
In Art, we practised cross-hatching to shade our sketches of a mammoth skeleton, and in History, we shone a light on the prehistoric settlement of Skara Brae, which dates back over 5000 years and is located on the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
Home Learning
Doodle - Please continue to support your child’s learning by accessing the Doodle Learning platform and remaining in the green zone. It is checked every Friday.
Reading - Your child’s book changing day is written on the front of their reading records, and this is when we will be checking to see if they have had these signed and dated at least five times to earn their star stamp for the week. Please could you support this by encouraging your child to read at least five times during the week, and make sure they bring their reading books and records into school each day.
To complement the work we are doing in English, if your child spots a simile sentence in their reading book, please could this be written down on post it note and brought into school next week. I would love to celebrate their finds and skilled detective work at spotting one of our focus toolkits!
Spellings - For the next few weeks, we will be recapping a number of the Year 2 spelling rules to ensure these are fully embedded. This week’s focus will be on suffix endings and the words to practise with your child, both in isolation as well as writing them in a sentence, are as follows:
cried, waved, rising, helping, walking, slower, oldest, fastest
Next Week:
On Wednesday 1st October, we have our Harvest Festival at St. Mary's church.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mrs Collett
Friday 19th September
It was lovely to see so many of you at our Meet the Teacher meeting on Monday. The information shared above is to give you an overview of what is to come for the children in Year 3.
This week in English, we finally discovered the conclusion of our model text; thankfully, the fire did finally end and our main character James was deemed a hero. We have also been focusing on one of our toolkits – speech marks, and how we can include a variety of vocabulary to show how the person is speaking (reported clause).
In Maths, we have continued with our topic on place value, focusing on hundreds, tens and ones, as well as looking at how we can partition these numbers.
In science, we built upon our previous lesson that focused on igneous rocks, by investigating the properties of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
For Art this week, we explored the ways that the Stone Age people would have made colours from natural resources, to use for their cave paintings. We then all had a go at creating our own colour chart for the various shades of brown they might have used.
Today in History, we shone a light on the Stone Age settlement ‘Skara Brae’ that was only discovered back in 1850. This gave us a real insight into what it would have been like to live in a Stone Age house.
Home Learning:
Doodle - Please ensure that your child is completing their Doodle Learning to get in the green zone. This will be checked every Friday.
Reading - Please could all children bring their reading books and records into school each day. They will also need to have these signed and dated to earn their star stamp, to show that they have read (at least) five times over the week.
Spellings – We have a number of children, including some of our more confident spellers, who are misspelling a number of the Yr. 1&2 Common Exception Words, in their written tasks. Please could you spend some time overlearning the words below, both in isolation as well as in a sentence or two.
with, said, like, what, when, this, some, come, would
The Change Maker Project - Next week we will spend one of our Collective worship sessions as a class, discussing our new initiative: The Change maker Project. We introduced this bespoke citizenship programme to the school 2 weeks ago and we are looking forward to hearing which activities have been chosen, and how each class is getting on progressing with it. If you have not had the opportunity to discuss it with your child, please do so this weekend, ready for next week. They only need to choose one activity from the Friendship section -St Mary's Changemaker Project - Lower KS2
Next week:
School is closed next Friday 26th September.
Please let Mrs Palmer know via the Gateway, if you are able to help on our class trip to Celtic Harmony on Tuesday 14th October.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend
Mrs Collett
Friday 12th September
We've had a busy week in Year 3 as we have begun to explore our new topics for the half term.
In English, our model text has started to be uncovered; so far, James, who works on the river in London, has found himself helping the firefighters, to try to put out a huge fire that is sweeping across the city. Not wanting to give up, James continues to work through the night. Will the fire ever end? The last two sections will be revealed next week.
In Maths, we have been exploring place value in a variety of ways, next week we will be building on this by looking at 1000’s.
In Science, we have been learning about Igneous rocks and how they are formed from magma, both under and above the earth’s surface.
In PSHE, we have been thinking about why we have rules and what life would be like if we didn’t have any.
In History, we are jumping back in time to the Prehistoric era, and will be exploring the Stone Age up to the Iron Age period. This week we looked at time lines and the term AD.
Art has always been one of our favourite subjects; this half term we will be linking it with our history topic. This week we have started exploring Cave Art and shone a light on the famous sculpture ‘Lion Man’ that was created using mammoth ivory over 40,000 years ago.
Home Learning:
In addition to their Doodle learning, the children should be reading at least five times during the week, and getting their reading record signed. All children have a school reading book and reading record.
Please could any outstanding reading books from Year 2, be returned to me on Monday.
I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Monday, for our meet the teacher session. During this meeting, I will be going through the Year 3 curriculum, expectations and highlights for the year ahead.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend
Mrs Collett
Friday 5th September
Welcome to Year 3!
It has been an absolute pleasure to welcome the children back to school, and watch them settle into the next stage of their educational journey in Key Stage 2.
We have spent some time this week discussing the new routines for year 3, taking part in a Vision and Values activity afternoon, voting for those who will represent our class for the four main councils in school, and talking about some of the topics we will be covering this half term.
Today we completed our WOW starter for the first unit of work in English, leaving us all intrigued about our new model text and the characters we will meet. All will be revealed next week!
Our 'Meet the Teacher' session is due to take place on Monday 15th September at 9am in the classroom. During this session, I will share further details about the Year 3 curriculum, routines and trips for the year ahead.
Home Learning
Next week we will be listening to all of the children read, and they will be given a new school reading book. As in Year 2, please comment and sign each time your child reads, aiming for 5 times a week, so that we can issue star stamps on their reading trackers. Going forward their book changing days will also remain the same as they were in Year 2, and this has been written on the front cover of their new reading records. Children must bring their reading record and books into school each day as there are ltos of opportunities for children to read with adults and independently.
Today we have completed the majority of the children’s baseline doodle assessments, and so Doodle learning should now be ready for the children to access again from home.
Next Week
Our PE days will be on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s.
In Maths, we will be learning more about place value, building upon the knowledge we acquired in Year 2. In these sessions, we will be looking at number line intervals, as well as representing and partitioning numbers up to 100. This will then be extended to looking at numbers up to 1000.
In English, we will be starting our new model text and looking at the tool kits that will accompany this unit of work.
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.
Mrs Collett