My teachers this year are: Mrs Ionilete and Mrs Burd.

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 13th September

Friday 27th September 

Friday 4th October

Friday 18th October

We are adventurers!

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. 

Timetable 

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

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!

We are readers!

 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' and we are looking forward to exploring lots of different poems this term.   

Recommended Reading in Year 3

 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 became hunter gathers in Forest school and understood how the stone age people might have gathered food, and recreated a version of stone age stew (which we tasted)! Some of us thought it was delicious! 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. We also became real archaeologists and uncovered some prehistoric poop to dissect, to help us understand how the Stone age people lived.

We are Digital explorers!

We have had the privilege to test a new app this week called Now Press Play. We had an immersive experience into the Stone Age world via an interactive story told through our personal headphones. We acted out the story as it was told and we had such fun living in the Stone Age! We even hunted our very own woolly mammoth! 

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 been visited by a Geologist who bought samples of all the different types of rocks for us to explore. We even made the different types of rocks out of chocolate!

To start our topic on light and shadows we have explored the relationship between light and different types of materials and investigating which ones created shadows. We will use this knowledge to help us create our very own shadow puppet theatre to retell a story.  

starting our topic on forces and magnets has been really interesting with lots of exploration of how magnets work and predicting what might happen with different materials or substances. 

We are Artists

We have been exploring different methods for creating art, and have enjoyed using clay to make Stone Age pots. We used 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’. 

We have also had an amazing experience at a local art studio, meeting a resident artist and creating our own mini- masterpieces! We are very grateful for our tailor made workshop at Sun Pier house!

 We are Chefs!

We have had great fun creating some edible treats linked to our topic work! We made some prehistoric Stone Age stew for our history topic of the Stone Age, and more recently created a healthy vegetable stew. This included using some seasonal root vegetables such as pumpkin to create a filling but well balanced meal. We loved dipping in some bread too!