Dec 06 2024
This week in English, we have been exploring root words and the -er, -est suffixes in more detail. We learnt rules that involve listening out for long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds in the root word to help us decide if we need to just add the suffix or change something before adding it …
Nov 29 2024
This week, in English, we have been changing parts of the familiar story Rapunzel to create our own version i.e. changing Rapunzel into a snake, the tower into a clock tower and the witch into a wizard. We thought carefully about our sentence structures, adding in adjectives to help create noun phrases. We have been …
Nov 25 2024
Our English lessons have been fun this week as we absorbed ourselves in Bethan Woolvin’s version of Rapunzel. We have designed ‘wanted’ posters to find the evil witch, sequenced the story onto a story mountain, created a visual story map and retold the story by using actions. We feel ready to write our own version …
Nov 22 2024
What a busy week! Practise for sharing assemblies are well underway and we look forward to presenting them in a few weeks time. In art we have been looking at landscapes using different media. This week we focused on using charcoal and pastels to created coastal scenes. Lots of creativity going on! Our English suspense …
Nov 15 2024
Today has felt like a very cosy type of day and we have all loved wearing our PJs and lounge wear. Thank you for supporting Children in Need. Fairy Tales is the focus in English for the next three weeks. We have started the unit exploring the original version of Rapunzel as well as reading …
Nov 08 2024
It has been great to see everyone back and eager to learn after the half term break. In Science, we have started the unit Living Things and their Habitats. This week, we identified a specific criteria that allowed us to scientifically identify if something is living, dead or never alive. We now know that for …
Oct 18 2024
Autumn has arrived in Year 3; we learnt the meaning of new words such as umber and translucent to help us write acrostic poems. We are very proud of them. In Maths we continued to work on written column addition and subtraction with exchanging across tens and hundreds. Your child has a sheet of sums …
Oct 13 2024
Sequencing and planning has been the focus in English this week. Last week we explored what makes up a sentence such as nouns, verbs and adjectives so that this week we could extend that further with more adventurous vocabulary for our pirate story and we’ve even used a thesaurus to help. We are ready to …
Oct 11 2024
Week 6 started with a very interesting investigation into what people ate in the Stone Age. We found some leftover Stone Age food and took a close look at it. Each group created a poster of all the different foods we found: oats, grains, mini apples, sweetcorn and also lots of different types of leaves …
Oct 04 2024
We travelled back to the Stone Age in English this week. We wrote a diary entry imagining we were the boy in Stone Age Boy. Everyone loved writing about everything they saw and experienced. As we wrote we thought about our word choices and tried really hard to make our tall letters tall and small …