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    • What have we been up to in Year 3?

    Summer 

     

    In Design and Technology, Year 3 explored the fascinating world of Ancient Egyptian jewellery. We began by researching traditional jewellery designs and identifying key features of Ancient Egyptian styles. Using our findings, we created our own designs before learning how to mould and manipulate clay using a range of tools and techniques. Once our jewellery had dried, we carefully painted and decorated our pieces to bring them to life. Finally, we evaluated our finished products, reflecting on what went well and considering what we could improve if we were to make them again. We are very proud of our creative and colourful jewellery designs!

     

                      

     

     

    In English, we linked our learning to our rainforest topic by creating our own non-chronological reports. We explored the key features of this type of writing, including headings, subheadings, paragraphs, captions, and images. We enjoyed researching and selecting our favourite facts to include in our reports, helping us to inform and engage our readers. We were all very proud of our finished work and the knowledge we gained about rainforests. Have a look at our reports and see if you can learn some new facts too!

                       

     

     

    In Maths, we have been learning about time, turns and angles. We have focused on telling the time to the nearest five minutes and to the minute using analogue clocks. We found this quite challenging, but we worked hard and made great progress. Any extra practice at home would be greatly appreciated, as it will help us to build our confidence and fluency in telling the time. Thank you for your support!

                                                             

     

     

    Here are our brilliant Reading Spine books for this term! We have been enjoying them during our Ten Magical Minutes reading time, and the children are absolutely loving the stories so far.

                                                                 

    Spring 

    Today, we had an amazing World Book Day in Year 3!

    We focused on the wonderful author Zanib Mian and explored some of her fantastic stories. The children shared their favourite books with the class and talked about why they love reading so much.

    Everyone also made their own reading pledges, thinking about how they can read more and try new books. We then got creative by redesigning book covers, showing off our brilliant ideas and artistic skills.

    One of the most exciting parts of the day was “Drop Everything and Read” — every time the bell rang, we stopped what we were doing and picked up a book! 

     

    In English, we wrote a detailed set of instructions explaining how a body was mummified in ancient Egyptian times.

     

    In Maths, we have been exploring measurement by learning how to measure and draw lines accurately in centimetres (cm) and millimetres (mm).

     

    In Art, we created papyrus-style paper using strips of paper and PVA glue, layering them in a criss-cross pattern to replicate the traditional ancient technique. In our next lesson, we will be adding our own designs to complete our artwork — stay tuned!

     

     

    Here are our brilliant Reading Spine books for this term! We have been enjoying them during our Ten Magical Minutes reading time, and the children are absolutely loving the stories so far.

     

     

     

     

    Autumn

    We have enjoyed following our new 'I am a Clever Writer' approach. Just look at our first 'Star Write' which was a retelling of The Fox and The Stork.

     

    We had a great week exploring poetry about autumn, then used a range of poetry devices to write a free verse poem of our own!

    So far in maths this term, we have looked at place value and addition and subtraction. We are amazing at column method for adding and subtracting!

    Our reading spine books for Autumn 1

    Our topic this term is the Stone Age to the Iron Age. In art, we created our own cave paintings, using a variety of media.