My teacher this year is Mrs Cavey

We are adventurers!

Forest School

We will have Forest school on alternate Friday afternoons. Please send your children into school wearing their Forest School clothes (jeans and long sleeve tops please) with a change of shoes, preferably welly boots, in a named bag.

Up coming Forest School dates:

Friday 26th September 2025

Friday 10th October 2025

Friday 31st October 2025 

Friday 14th November 2025

Friday 28th November 2025

Friday 12th December 2025

We thoroughly enjoy our time at Forest school with the digging pit being the most popular area we choose to explore! We also joined in with a whole class scavenger hunt looking for mystery boxes that held the ingredients for our Stone Age Stew! We had great fun being gatherers like the Stone Age people were and we loved making the Stone Age stew afterwards! 

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Homework

Homework will be set every Thursday and will be due in the following week on Tuesday.

The children will have a homework book to complete their homework in. 

Reading journals will also be checked on a Tuesday, please ensure your children are completing one activity per week from the bingo boards provided in their journals.

Children will also be accessing TimesTable Rockstars and their log ins have been provided in the back of their reading journals. Please encourage children to access this for around 30 mins per week. This can be broken up into 5 or 10 minuet.

Timetable 

Here is our Year 3 timetable (subject to change) which outlines the structure of our day. 

  Timetable

  

We are readers!

Reading

We love reading in Year 3! Our whole curriculum is littered with some amazing texts to engage all our learners and create a love for reading in our school. 

This year we have a reading scrapbook which will come home with your child at least once this year. Please add to it your favourite book as a family, your child's favourite read at the moment, or just a book you want to recommend to the rest of the class.

We have had great fun reading with our reading buddies in Acorns this term!

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 We have been using the book 'Stone Age Boy' to help us with our creative writing this term, thinking about how it might feel waking up in the Stone Age! We also read ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth’ to help us create our own set of instructions. We are enjoying our current class book 'The boy who grew dragons'. We have also used the book 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth' to start writing our own instruction texts. We used the woolly mammoths we made for home work to help inspire this piece of writing too! 

 

Writing with Woolly Y3

 

 

Recommended Reading in Year 3

 Click below for some age appropriate book recommendations for children in Year 3.

Recommended reading list

 Little Wandle support for parents 

We have lots of supporting documents available to help support your children at home with their reading and spelling. We follow the Little Wandle scheme at school to help children read fluently and use their phonic knowledge in their spellings. See below for some useful information to continue this support at home with your children: 

Topic 

We have loved taking a trip into the past this term looking at how the Stone age people lived and how things might have been different to our lives now. 

We are Historians and Archaeologists!

We have been exploring how prehistoric paint might have been made to create cave paintings and recreated our own. We visited Skara Brae in Scotland using Google Earth and discovered what prehistoric ruins look like and discussed how people might have lived in these dwellings. Year 3 have also begun building our class timeline with key historical events in History to build our understanding of the context we are learning.

 

We have enjoyed becoming archaeologists this term and dissecting coprolites to better understand how archaeologists learn about how people used to live. We use replica coprolites of stone age people and applied our knowledge of them as hunter gatherers when discovering the remnants of their diets inside the coprolites (stone age poop!).   

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We are Geologists and Scientists!

We love learning about rocks! After exploring the grouping of rocks on our own, we have created our own collection of different types of rocks we are finding in the classroom. We have explored how rocks are made and we even made the different types of rocks out of chocolate! Luckily we also have a visit from a real Geologist coming up, where we will explore in a bit more depth the uses of different rocks. 

Our Geologist taught us all about how the igneous rocks are formed from cooled magma and how these rocks become part of a life-cycle that continues to change. We learnt about sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and how these different rocks might be useful for different things in our everyday life because of their properties.

We really enjoyed learning all about fossils today and looking at some real examples of fossils that have been found locally in Kent. We then tried making our own with salt dough and made impressions of dinosaur skeletons or shells. 

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 In term 2 we are looking more closely at nutrition and how we as humans get our energy from the things we eat. We explored packaging of items we all eat at home and started to learn about the nutritional value in certain foods and how to categorise these to ensure we eat a balanced healthy diet. We then made a balanced meal of our own taking into consideration the limitations some pupils have on their diets due to allergy or choices, we made healthy autumnal soup and had some bread to dip in! Some of us loved the making but not so much the eating the vegetables part, others loved the soup and had seconds! 

Science Nutrition Year 3

 

 

We are Artists

Not only have we created our own Stone Age wall art, we will be using clay to make Stone Age pots. We will use some visual inspiration of repeating patterns that would have been used in the Stone Age to help with our designs. We have also created our very own woolly mammoths to inspire our instruction writing on ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth’. 

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 Using the Stone Age technique of rolling long sausage shapes and using the rolls to stack on top of each other, we attempted to create some Stone age pottery. Some of use were successful in using the technique and found it kept our pots very strong once they dried. We added some additional details with carvings and patterns as they would have done too. 

Clay pots Year 3