Welcome to Year 3.
Our Teachers are Ms D’Souza, Mr Bushell and Miss Hobbs. Our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Parikh, Mrs Da Palma and Mrs Davies.
Sep 122025
I will be good. I PROMISE!
End of the first full week in Year 3! Success!
Homework has been posted on Google Classroom. You will need to log into Google Classroom using your child’s login. Remember to include @albancityschool.herts.sch.uk
Please let us know if you are struggling, we can show you or if you would rather a paper copy.
In maths we have been exploring 3 digit numbers and finding 10 more/ 10 less.
In english, we have started enjoying our book ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’ and looked at writing persuasive speeches to persuade parents for a new pet!
In science we learnt about properties of objects and investigated those around us.
Sep 052025
Welcome Back!
Welcome to Year 3!
Everyone has come back and settled extremely positively. The classrooms have been buzzing and busy!
Alongside choosing their classroom rules, we have made our own number systems; created stone age art and imagined creative adventure stories.
Reading books have been sent home. Please bring these and the reading record everyday.
Next week Year 3 will be looking at the story ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’ and will start exploring numbers in their hundreds.
Jul 182025
3D shapes and pneumatic machines!
Congratulations to the whole of Year 3 for a fabulous Recorder Concert on Tuesday morning. It was so impressive to see see and hear the progress you have made this year with such tricky music.
We finished our books inspired by the Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and we will be reading them to Reception children on Monday.
In Maths we made 3D shapes out of plasticine and spaghetti. This helped us see how many faces, edges and vertices each shape has.
In DT we completed our pneumatic machines and had great fun firing them!
Have a wonderful weekend,The Year 3 team-
Jul 112025
A day in the life of a Roman soldier!
What a busy week; our transition session in Year 4; our school open evening; and our Roman Day today!
Here are some photos of our fabulous day!
Everyone made a shield (scutum) and a sword (gladius).
We marched down to the playground with our shields and made the testudo (tortoise) formation, which made the Roman army so strong and powerful.
We took part on a slow-motion battle. It was very dramatic.
We also made strong structures and pneumatic devices to make weapons inspired by the Roman ballista and onager.
Have a lovely weekend Year 3!
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Jul 042025
Magical Maths: spirals, pentagons, triangles and measuring mocktails!
This week in year 3 we were learning about volume and capacity in Maths, with all these skills to make our own ideal mocktails using these maths skills, they had to be very precise so it tasted the best!
In Science we explored the parts of a flower and even dissected one and put the parts on a dissecting mat! See our photos below.
In RE we thought about creation through patterns in nature. We discovered that pentagons and spirals are often present in nature and we even looked at the fibonacci sequence behind these patterns. Some people we very taken with this and worked out the sequence a very long way. But everyone agreed that nature is awesome!
In English we started our final topic learning the story ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark’ and started to plan our own story with an animal of our choice and something they are afraid of.
Finally in DT we explored how to make structures strong by using a single piece of paper. We found that folding the paper into triangles made it very strong. See below.
We have 2 more recorder lessons before our Summer Concert so please keep practising,
Have a great weekend!
Year 3 team
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Jun 202025
Pots of art!
Our week has been very focused on Art and Pottery. We have been working hard on our portraits ready for you to take a look at and perhaps buy at our Open Day. On Wednesday and Thursday everyone had the opportunity to make a Roman Face Pot with Mrs Booy. She is taking them to dry out, fire in her kiln and glaze them ready to bring them back in so everyone can take their pot home. It was a wonderful workshop and we are very grateful to the parents who helped in both classes.
Meanwhile we heard about an amazing discovery in the playground over the Easter holidays and are working on our reporting skills to write about it next week In Maths we learnt about tenths. Great work Year 3!
Have a wonderful weekend.
The Year 3 team.
Jun 132025
A creative week!
This week has been a really creative one, practising our skills ready to make our Roman face pots next week and our portraits. So we have made coil pots out of plasticine and practised sketching from drawings. In RE we continued our creative theme by making each day of the Creation story in paper and plasticine. Please see below! As you can see Day 6 was popular!
Meanwhile we continued to work hard on finding change from an amount in Maths and writing gripping descriptions of a rainforest and volcano in English.
We hope you have a wonderful weekend,
The Year 3 team.
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May 232025
Spectacular Magnetic Forces, Special Dream writing and a Sparkling Sports Day!
In our final week before the half term break we have been working hard. In English we finished our narrative writing based on the dream giver by writing a story the dream we would choose to have. It was a lovely chance to use our imaginations- our dreams ranged from sports and dance related themes to visiting animals in the rainforest.
We continued to work on time and found the top marks time games very helpful to develop our skills (we have a link on google classroom). But our favourite Maths lesson this week was when we had a variety of timed tasks to do. It really helped everyone understand how long seconds and minutes are.
In Science we completed our topic on magnets by comparing the strength of different types of magnets. We did this by testing how many paperclips would attach to each type of magnet. See the photos below.
Well done to the whole of Year 3 for making this Sports Day one to remember. Everyone worked really hard and encouraged one another. A special congratulations to Vermillion Class for earning the most number of points! There are plenty of photos on the school’s instagram account.
Have a wonderful half term break.
We look forward to welcoming you all bak for our final half term in Year 3.
The Year 3 team.
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May 162025
Magnets, minutes and mosaics!
Magnets: in Science we investigated materials that are magnetic and are not magnetic. We tested a whole array of metals and were surprised that only metals with iron or nickel are magnetic. Everyone worked hard as a team making sure everyone got a hands-on chance to test all the materials.
Minutes: in Maths we worked hard on our telling the time skills using analogue and digital time. Everyone made progress but minutes to the hour was the most tricky part. Everyone has questions to practice at home this weekend for home work.
Mosaics: after seeing the hypocaust and mosaic floors on our trip to Verulamium we had a chance to work on our own mosaics. It was deceptively difficult but the children all showed resilience and it made us appreciate the work the Romans did all those years ago.
In other news we finished our dream giver narratives and recapped how to punctuate speech. Next week everyone will have the opportunity to think about what they would leave out for their dream. We can’t wait to read them.
In PSHCE we all signed a document promising to only take medicine given by a trusted adult.
Today we went to the field for the first time this year and came back exhausted after trying out the exciting and demanding new carousel of activities we will have for Sports Day next Friday.
Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 3 team.
May 092025
Roman Revelations!
Our week started with our trip to Verulamium Park and Museum. We really immersed ourselves in Roman life; we entered Verulamium via the gate and were wowed by the mosaic floor at the hypocaust. Once we were in the museum we explored the Roman exhibits, drawing artefacts and finding out fascinating facts. Finally, we dressed up as Roman people and were given a shopping list. We then worked in groups, handling artefacts at market stalls to choose the things we needed. Please see the photos below.
In the classroom we explored more Roman artefacts and thought about what objects might have been used for.
Our Roman theme continued in Maths, we learnt about Roman numerals and told the time using a clock face with Roman numerals. We also learnt this song to help us remember the number of days in each month of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjrjMxddJe0
In other news we continued to write our gripping narrative about the dream giver and created fact files about Ramadan. In Art we continued to create our articulated animals.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Year 3 team.
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