Year 3
Year 3 news
The year 3 team for 2024/25 consists of Mr Letts (3G) and Mrs Nagra (3H) and our teaching assistants are Mrs Grimstead and Miss Fazackerley.
Year 3 PE days will be Monday and Thursday during the autumn term. The children will visit the library on a Monday.
We are very excited to start off our KS2 learning with a bang - our autumn term will revolve around the gripping topic of Britain in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Get ready for draughty roundhouses, pointy spears and decorative cave art! The children will become immersed in their prehistoric learning over the first four months of the academic year, and it will link to our school trip at the end of October. They will consider the changes in hunting and gathering over the period as well as exploring high-profile prehistoric discoveries such as the Amesbury Archer and Skara Brae.
Want to get ahead of the game? You can find out some fun facts about the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages using the comic strip below. To see this more clearly, you can click on the pdf link underneath.
Curriculum Summary
Knowledge Organiser
This half term's homework
Homework is set on a Friday, and is due in the following Thursday. Children should be reading to an adult at least three times per week for at least 15/20 minutes each time. This must be recorded in your child's reading record.
In addition to this, the children can develop their skills with a range of websites and apps the school has subscribed to. The children should be regularly practising their times tables knowledge through TTRockstars. In addition, you could play Hit the Button online or download the White Rose Maths app.
To support our pupils with their spelling abilities, all children have been given login information for EdShed. Online books, with a range of opportunities to develop reading and inference skills, can be accessed through Bug Club.
Handwriting
Learning showcase
How long ago was the Stone Age? 🧻
At the beginning of our exciting Stone Age Britain topic, the children loved using toilet rolls to demonstrate how long ago prehistory actually was. With each sheet of toilet paper representing 1000 years of time, the children made some excellent guesses as to when the Stone Age took place. They were astonished by how many years we had to go back...! Check out this picture of 3H's historical journey.
Making muscles 💪🏼
The children enjoyed creating working models of their own hands in science last week. After learning about how muscles contract and relax to move our bones, they used straws and string to create a moving index finger. The children enjoyed this creative opportunity and worked hard to conquer problems as they arose. Here are some pictures of 3G creating their hand muscle models.
