We wrote our own narrative for Mowser and Tom’s mission to save their village from starving. We braved the Great Storm-Cat with them and returned to Mousehole with enough fish to feed them all. Everyone included what Tom said to Mowser, they did a great job! In Maths we continued to learn about shapes. We …
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Year 3 – Amber and Vermilion
Dec 06 2024
Parallel, perpendicular and punctuating speech!
We have had a wonderful week of learning in Year 3. We started our new book ‘The Mousehole Cat’ and found out it is a real story that is still celebrated in Mousehole today! We investigated how to punctuate speech through reading activities, songs and cutting up sentences using macaroni to show where the inverted …
Nov 29 2024
Pied Piper, Roundhouses and angles!
We had our final week working on the Pied Piper legend and our powerful descriptions show how well we know this intriguing character. Next week we will move onto the story of the Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber and using this as inspiration for our English work. In Maths we learnt what an angle was. …
Nov 22 2024
What is year 3’s favourite fruit? Why do snakes slither?
Another exciting week in Year 3! We continued to use the Pied Piper of Hamelin as inspiration for our English work. This week we retold the story. Everyone worked hard and we can see real improvement in their punctuation, handwriting and spelling since the start of the year. Well done Year 3. Did you know …
Nov 15 2024
Year 3 receive an exciting request from the Mayor of Hamelin.
This week we continued to use the legend ‘The Pied Piper’ to inspire our English. On Monday we received a letter from the Mayor of Hamelin. He was in desperate need of help. Hamelin was stuck in the part of the legend when the town was overrun with rats. The mayor asked us to create …
Nov 08 2024
Welcome back!
We are glad to see you all back refreshed and ready to learn. This week we have started lots of new learning. In English we have started reading the Michael Morpurgo version of the Pied Piper and it is inspiring our learning. This week we learnt all about rats: did you know they have such …
Oct 25 2024
An interesting week finished with a crazy hair day!
Our final week of this half term! We worked hard on Haikus in English – poems that have the pattern 5-7-5 syllables in each line. We edited them and wrote them up for a class poetry book. Please come and take a look. In Maths we consolidated using formal column addition and subtraction. Everyone impressed …
Oct 11 2024
Stone Age investigations
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 …
Sep 27 2024
Sensational Stone Age!
What a special week; Stone Age Day and Language Day all in one week! Stone Age Day was a great success, it really got us thinking about how clever people were. First, we were introduced to Stevie and were taught how to shoot an arrow and then hunted Stone Age animals – even Mr Edwards …
Sep 20 2024
20.9.24 Have you ever wondered how to wash a woolly mammoth?
We have all been working hard in Year 3 this week. It has been a busy week in Maths, we have covered estimating numbers, rounding numbers and have started adding and subtracting ones from 3 digit numbers! In English we had great fun reading the story ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth’ and it inspired …
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