Year 3 – Amber and Vermilion
May 09 2026
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 …
May 01 2026
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 …
Apr 24 2026
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 …
Mar 28 2026
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 …
Mar 22 2026
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 …
Mar 06 2026
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 …
Feb 27 2026
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 …
Feb 20 2026
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 …
Jan 31 2026
We have had a busy week this week in year 3. In Maths we have been looking at division with remainders. Noticing that is the number can’t be divisible equally then there will be some left over. We used different methods to represent this and by the end of the week we started to understand …
Jan 25 2026
This week In Year 3 we have been busy learning lots of new things! In maths we were focusing on doubling and halving, looking at what happens to the numbers when we do this. We looked at patterns to help us, such as the 2, 4 and 8 times tables and how they are all …
