September 2025 update

What a fantastic few weeks Year 3 have had!
They have all settled into their new class and have completed some great learning. We have been focusing on planning our story innovation of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. We have been reading the wolf’s story, and now we are writing our story from Grandma’s perspective.
We completed some drama to understand the characters emotions and performed this to the class!

 

October 2025 update

Year 3 have had a great start to this half term! We have begun our exploration into Ancient Egypt and have travelled into the past to discover how long ago the Ancient Egyptian civilisation started and what made it so successful!
We have also started a new unit in Music all about Ballads – here is us singing one of them thinking about the musical term ‘crescendo’ 
We have really enjoyed our geography learning about volcanoes! Here we are being news reporters explaining the dangers of living near a volcano.

We also really enjoyed Languages Day, just before half term, where we explored the wonderful language and culture of South Korea! We found out our Korean name, explored some greetings and listened to some brilliant traditional music. Here we are painting fans with watercolours.

 

November 2025 update

Year 3 really enjoyed their trip to Conkers last week! They worked brilliantly in teams to create a pyramid from logs in the forest. They learned about different Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses and they created their own. They even went orienteering, trying their hand at being archaeologists by cracking Ancient hieroglyphics!

We have been exploring multiplication in maths. This week we have been making equal groups and representing numbers as arrays and repeated addition. Do you like how we have used our times ‘tables’?

 

January 2026 update

Year 3 have had a great start back to the term.
They have been introduced to our new focus in geography ‘Antarctica,’ where the children generated questions using the compass rose enquiry.
Furthermore, the children have developed their knowledge of the eight times tables and have learnt the relevant multiplication and division facts.
In Science, we have learned about the different nutrients needed for a healthy diet.

 

February 2026 update

Year 3 have been very busy learning how to use dialogue in their narrative writing! We learnt how to use speech marks in our sentences by creating a living sentence! We have been exploring the story Leon and the Place Between and have written a setting description of a magical place – including a conversation between two characters!
We have also been learning about cave paintings and have created our own prehistoric handprints. We also created our own rock surface and used stippling to make our own animal images.
In Geography, we have been exploring Antarctica and have used impressive map skills to follow the journey of the explorer Ernest Shackleton as he journeyed to the South Pole. We looked at lines of longitude and latitude and found coordinates of his journey!