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.
Jun 052026
Learning outside
It has been a lovely first week back after half term, getting to know what the children got up to over the holiday.
This week we have been aiming to do lots of our learning outside and have it focused on nature. We spent an English lesson focusing on onomatopoeia and decided to walk around the school listening to sounds. Then we used the words we heard outside to create short poems about sounds in our school. In English we have started a new book called ‘Our Tower’ and focusing on how the author uses onomatopoeia and personification to describe the settings in the book.
In maths we have continued our ‘telling the time’ unit. Our main focus this week has been on duration, knowing that we have to work out the start and ending time of the journey and then figuring out the difference between the two times. We have been very impressed with how well the children have understood this concept.
We have begun new topics across the board this half term. In science we have been looking at the main features of plants and the importance of them. In history we are looking more in depth about the Romans and the contributions they made to Britain. We had some amazing discussions about whether the contributions the Romans made were beneficial or not. In DT we have started looking at strong structures and what makes them strong. We experimented with what shape they thought was the strongest and determined it was a triangle.
On Friday our school participated in a learning outside day and Year 3 where fortunate enough to go down to our school field and take part in more active learning.
As usual the homework is on google classroom.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
From the Year 3 team.
May 222026
Pottery and sports day!
We have had a very busy last week of this half term.
On Wednesday we had a pottery workshop. A professional artist came in and began our day by leading an assembly about the different techniques she uses to create her pots. She then showed us some of her creations she had made. Then in our classes we made our own clay pot and made them look like faces. They are going to be taken away and fired in her kiln and we will be able to take them home.
On Friday we had our sports day. All the children participated really well and showed really good sportsmanship. Vermillion came second and Amber class won!
This week, in class, we have continued understanding time. We are learning to accurately tell the time and convert analogue into digital time. In English we have finished the Dream Giver and have been editing and publishing our work so we can show the rest of the school it on our class display.
In science we have finished forces and magnets and have created posters explaining everything we have learnt over the last half term. In computing we have been creating stop motion animations. We created moving animals in our DT lessons and put them into a scene using the chromebooks and ipads.
We have sent PE kits home with the children, please could they be brought back in on the first day washed. There is no spelling set this week.
We hope you have a lovely half term. We are very excited for the last half term of the year!
From the Year 3 team.
May 092026
What a walk!
Even though this week was a shorter week, Y3 have managed to fit in a lot!
SCHOOL TRIP
On Tuesday we went on a school trip to Verulamium park and museum. We explored the Roman remains that can be found in the park and imagined we were Romans. We looked at part of a gateway that people would have used to enter the city and an intact Roman wall. Then we made our way to the museum where we explored Roman artifacts in a ‘market place’ and had the opportunity to investigate what the museum has to show us. We had a really lovely day out, even if the the children (and adults) struggle with the walk back to school.
In maths this week we have been solving worded problems where one of the parts is ‘unknown’. The children struggled to understand the concept to start with but when we practised and used manipulatives to help us, they began to grasp the concept more. We will continue to look at this over time.
In English we have finished writing instructions on how to become a trainee dream giver. The chn have been focusing on including adjectives, adverbs and fronted adverbials in their writing. They have enjoyed this topic as it can be individual to them.
In science this week we have put all of our knowledge, about forces and magnets, to create a poster. We included push and pull forces, contact forces, friction, gravity, magnetic force, attract and repel, and north and south poles. It was lovely to see all of their hard work come together.
The spellings and homework are on google classroom and we will have paper copies outside the classrooms if you would like to take one.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
From the Year 3 team.
May 012026
Finally the bus stop method!
It has been another lovely, surprisingly warm week.
In maths this week we have continued division but have progressed into using short division methods such as ‘the bus stop method’. We have been using different manipulatives to help us understand the new method. We have also been focusing on our times tables as knowing them will help throughout these lessons.
In English we are continuing to use ‘The Dream Giver’ as inspiration. We have started to plan instructions to help a trainee dream giver at their new job. We have been looking at ways that we can improve simple sentences and using a thesaurus to help us.
In science this week we conducted an experiment to see if all magnets are the same strength. In history we have been using clues to figure out what a Roman town would look like. In PE we have been lucky enough to have members of the SPURS football organisation to teach a PE lesson.
Next Tuesday Year 3 are going on their school trip to Verulamium museum and the surrounding area. Please can children ensure that they bring a waterproof coat, a water bottle, a snack and a packed lunch. Children are welcome to wear comfortable footwear as there will be lots of walking. An email has been sent to all parents giving them all the information you need. We are really looking forward to a lovely day out.
There is homework on Google Classroom and spellings are in their books and on Google Classroom.
We hope you have a lovely long weekend,
The Year 3 team.
Apr 242026
The dream giver
We have had another lovely, busy week in school this week.
In English we have been continuing to look at the story of the Dream Giver. We have had a great time creating a non-chronological report about our own dream givers. We first created images using adjectives and expanded noun phrases and then wrote paragraphs about their appearance, habitat and job description.
In maths we have moved onto division. We have been focusing on dividing two and three digit numbers by a one digit numbers, with exchanging. We have been using different manipulatives to help us when exchanging one ten for ten ones. We will be moving onto short division next week and begin to understand how to use the bus stop method to help us with dividing.
In history we have been looking at the Romans invading Britain. We have looked at the who, what, where and why questions about the invasion. We also discussed whether or not we thought it was a good idea, for the Romans, to invade. In science we are continuing to look at magnets and how they work. We have experimented with magnets by finding things in our classrooms that are magnetic. We have began looking at the north and south poles and why they either attract or repel.
The homework this week is on google classroom but it will also be printed outside the classroom if you would like a paper copy. The spellings are set the same as always.
A reminder that we are going on a class trip on 5th May. An email has been sent out but if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask during soft start.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.
The Year 3 team.
Mar 282026
Happy Easter
Our final week of this term has been very busy!
In Maths we have begun learning about short multiplication and using the column method. We realised that we have to start by multiplying the numbers in the ones column first and then the tens. We progressed onto regrouping and will continue to look at this after the easter break.
In English we finished looking at the book ‘Escape from Pompeii’. We finished the unit by writing a newspaper report about the event. We had to include the main features of a newspaper report; headlines, subheadings, introduction and eyewitness accounts.
Throughout our DT topic we have been researching and designing pizza. Both classes have made them and we have rave reviews.
We also had lots of fun designing and creating animals out of plasticine. We also created the animals habitat out of recycling that we brought into school. We will be finishing these after half-term.
We haven’t given the children any spellings to learn of the two week break but I would be great if the children could continue with their reading and practice their times tables on TTRS.
We hope you have a lovely Easter and we are looking forward to the final term of the year!
From the Year 3 team
Mar 222026
What is friction?
We have had a very busy week, conducting experiments and planning art projects.
In maths, we have spent a week looking at what happens when we multiply by 10. As well as using basic multiplication to help us with more difficult ones. If we know that 3 x 5 = 15, we can work out what 3 x 50 is.
In English, we have been focusing on inverted commas and where to place them correctly. We have then been challenging ourselves to use other words than said to make our writing better. We have also been planning to write a newspaper article next week.
In science, we have conducted an experiment about friction. We were trying to figure out which material has the greatest friction. We had lots of fun testing different surfaces: grass, cardboard, jumpers, blankets, rugs… The majority of the class concluded that the grass has the greatest amount of friction. In geography, we looked at the advantages and disadvantages of living near a volcano.
Spellings have been stuck on the children’s spelling books, and they are also on Google Classroom. The year 3 classes are currently in the middle of a TTRS battle, let’s see who wins!
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
The year 3 team.
Mar 062026
World book day
It has been a very busy week this week in year 3!
In English we have looked at how we use apostrophes for possession. We looked at our class book and found the nouns in it and then looked at what things belonged to them. We then worked out the after the noun we have to add the apostrophe and an s to make sure it makes sense.
In maths we looked at adding fractions. We realised that when the denominator is the same we only have to add the numerators. We played games to help us with our learning.
In science we continued to look at science and experimented with friction. We used toy cars and moved them across different surfaces to see how they travel best, In geography we looked at why people use mountains. We discussed if we would like to live near a mountain or in a city, it was very mixed answers.
WORLD BOOK DAY
We had world book day this Thursday. We either dressed up as characters from our favorite books or in comfortable clothes we would wear if we were reading. We began our day by participating in a phase quiz, we then took part in a Tom Gates workshop. We learnt how to draw like the illustrator and used this to create our own doodle walls. We then read with different classes across the school which we loved doing. After that we had a Matilda workshop were we learnt part of a dance from the musical.
Homework is on Google classroom but if you need a paper copy let us know. Spelling are also on Google classroom and stuck in the children’s spelling books.
A quick reminder that we have our rescheduled tag rugby festival next Thursday. The arrangements are the same as last time and if you have any questions please ask during soft start.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
The year 3 team.
Feb 272026
Escape from Pompeii
This week we have been continuing to look at fractions in maths. We begun the week looking at comparing and ordering them. We realised that even though the denominator is a big number it means that the actual size of the fraction is smaller. We then moved onto looking at equivalent fractions. We used a fractions wall to see what fractions were the same size as others.
In English we started looking at a new book called ‘Escape from Pompeii’. We discussed what we think it might be about and the children loved investigating the front cover of the book. We have also been focusing on using verbs, adverbs and prepositions in our sentences to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.
In science this half term we are learning all about forces. We began by looking at the two main forces push and pull. We experimented by going around our classrooms seeing what we could push and pull and what happened when we did them. In RE we are started to look at what happens over the Easter period the the lens of Christianity.
We have posted homework on Google Classroom that is all about equivalent fractions. Spelling have been stuck in the children’s spelling books and are also on Google Classroom.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
From the Year 3 team.
Feb 202026
Happy half term!
This week was children’s mental health week. Throughout the week we looked at different ways to look after our mental health. We also focused on the other people that can help us if we are sad and we created our ‘people that can help us’ hands. We chose five people we trusted and spoke about how different people will choose different people to put on their hands.
In maths we are focusing on fractions. We are starting to use the mathematical terms numerator and denominator more and understand the significance of them to the fraction. We started looking at fractions of amounts of things and will continue to look at this after half term.
In English we did a few lessons related to our Geography lessons. We researched and made notes on different mountains. We enjoyed learning new facts about mountains!
We haven’t set any homework this half term, but have sent home the spellings like normal.
We hope you have a lovely half term and are looking forward to he Spring 2 half term.
The year 3 team.
