Welcome to Year 3

Class Teacher - Miss Taylor

                                                       Teaching Assistant - Miss Dury

 

 

During our first half-term, Year 3 started working with 3-digit numbers in maths. Pupils can now confidently partition numbers up to 1000.

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 recounts. Our second book is Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman, we have explored this book within our daily reading skills sessions to develop our fluency, retrieval, predictiction, vocabulary and summarising skills.  

Year 3's first visit of the academic year to Rawmarsh Library involved creating Stone Age art to add to a cave created by the wonderful Wendy and Sonia.

  

In Religious Education, Year 3 explored Haiku poems. We created two Haiku poems as a class to reflect parts of the Genesis Creation story. Pupils then worked individually or as part of a team to create their own poems.

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 have developed our knowledge and understanding of how our bones and muscles work together to ensure movement and protection. We conducted a scientific enquiry to answer the question 'Do people with longer legs run faster?' 

Music with Mrs Durkin is a definite highlight of the week, where we learnt how to hold a ukulele correctly and how to strum the chords G, C, E and A. 

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.               

In preparation for our first trip of the academic year, we explored items using our senses to hear, smell, taste and feel items from a working farm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Dance Year 3 have worked as a team with Mrs Wells to create movements that reflect hope, giving and receiving. They have then worked in smaller groups to create a motif. The motif has been designed and developed by the children in their groups to reflect our school values; hope, love, honesty, forgiveness, justice and respect. We look forward to showing our final production to our loved ones on Friday 25th October.