Year 3 – Amber and Vermilion
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 …
Jan 16 2026
In year 3 we have been continuing to look at the book ‘War and Peas’. We have been focusing on the adjectives we can use to describe the two contradicting kings. Using these adjectives we then wrote paragraphs about the kings and began to explore the correct use of inverted commas. In maths we have …
Jan 09 2026
We have really enjoyed our first week back at school after the Christmas holiday. It was lovely to see all the children again and hear about their adventures over the break. In English this week we have started looking at new story names ‘War and Peas’. We have been describing the two main characters using …
Dec 20 2025
This week in Year 3 we have been getting ready for the Christmas break. We have continued to decorate the classroom, as well as decorating biscuits and our Iron age jewellery. We also managed to squeeze in some maths and English this week (which I’m sure the children were thrilled about) and performed some Christmas …
Dec 13 2025
This week in Year 3 we have been getting ready for christmas, our classrooms continue to grow with decoration and we are all getting in the festive mood. In English we finished writing our stories based on ‘The Pied Piper’. Instead of rats the children had the opportunity to change the animal and we had …
Dec 05 2025
Our classrooms have become a little more festive this week, with Christmas decorations. This week in English, we have been continuing to look at the Pied Piper book. We have enjoyed reading the book, discussing its vocabulary, and making inferences about the characters. This then led to a class debate over whether the Pied Piper …
Nov 30 2025
During maths this week we have been investigating turns and angles. We began looking at half turns and quarter turns. We then figured out that a quarter turn is the same as a right angle. We experimented by finding right angles around the classroom and found lots of them. We then continued to look at …
Nov 21 2025
In our class this week we have had a theft, someone has taken our jar of tears and we needed to write a newspaper article to explain what has happened. We explored eyewitness statements and how to change these into speech using inverted commas. We also looked at features of a newspaper article and tried …
Nov 14 2025
It has been a busy week this week in year 3. Along with our normal lessons we have been learning about Remembrance day and Anti bullying week. For remembrance day we made collages that reminded us of the sacrifices people have made for us. The children spent a long time on these and were very …
Nov 07 2025
After having a lovely week off, we have come back to school to start the Christmas half-term! In Year 3, we have begun many new units across various subjects. In English, we have started reading a new book called ‘The Tear Thief’. We have been discussing emotions and whether people react to them in the …
