Welcome to Year 3

 

Class Teacher - Miss Taylor

 Teaching Assistant - Mrs Astley 

 

 

Maths

During our first week, Year 3 looked at partitioning numbers up to 100. We created number lines and learnt how to accurately measure length in cm and mm using a ruler. During week 3, pupils started working with 3-digit numbers, counting in hundreds and transferred their partitioning skills to 3 - digit numbers. Pupils can now confidently partition numbers up to 1000. Pupils are beginning to access problem-solving activities to deepen their mathematical learning and strengthen their resilience. Our first half - term is focused primarily on place value, ensuring pupils are confident with number when adding and subtracting. 

English

In English, we loved reading The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This was a perfect class read to begin our new academic year. Children became Alexander the wolf and created their own verbal recounts. Our second book is Planet Omar by Zanib Mian. We are all thoroughly enjoying the story so far and are using this as inspiration for our writing lessons. Year 3 have worked hard this week to secure their knowledge on compound sentences using the co-ordinating conjunctions 'and' and 'but'. Pupils are now displaying an increased accuracy when using the subordinating conjunction 'if' in a complex sentence. 

Reading Skills 

We have been exploring Planet Omar by Zanib Mian during our daily Reading Skills sessions, developing our fluency, retrieval, prediction, vocabulary and summarising skills.

The children are loving the opportunity to delve deeper into the story, explore the characters and events, and spend time engaging with full chapters as a class. It has been wonderful to see their enthusiasm for the book and their growing confidence in discussing and responding to the text.

Science

In Science, we are now able to name some bones accurately and understand how our skeletons protect and support us, in addition to creating the movements we make. Over the half term, we will develop our knowledge and understanding of how our bones and muscles work together to ensure movement and protection. 

Spanish 

In Spanish, pupils learnt the colours of the Spanish flag and where Spain is in the world. We have developed our oral conversations and can now greet each other, ask how people are feeling and respond appropriately depending on how we feel ourselves.               

Dance 

In Dance Year 3 are working as a team with Mrs Wells to create movements that reflect hope, giving and receiving.  We look forward to showing our final production to our loved ones in October.