In Year 3 this week we have been looking at acrostic poems in English. We found the features of poems and how they differ from narratives. Then we wrote our own poems about what autumn reminded us of. In maths, we have been using the column method to add two and three digit numbers. We …
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Year 3 – Amber and Vermilion
Oct 17 2025
Stone age animals
This week in year three, we have been continuing our learning on the Stone Age. In English, we have been researching the different animals that lived in the Stone Age and have written reports about them. We have linked this to our history lessons, where we have been investigating how and why Stone Age people …
Oct 10 2025
This Week In Year 3
This week in Year 3, we have been: developing adjectives and conjunctions in English adding 2 and 3 digit numbers in maths learning about inputs in computing discovering how different rocks are made Next week in maths we will begin to look at subtraction and the column method; we will write a report about …
Oct 03 2025
Back to the Stone Age!
This week Year 3 children were transported back to the Stone Age! When we entered the hall on Tuesday, we were suprised to find a cave man from this prehistoric era! He was making his own tools, wore animal skins as clothes and had to hunt for his food. He even tried to create fire …
Sep 12 2025
I will be good. I PROMISE!
End of the first full week in Year 3! Success! Homework has been posted on Google Classroom. You will need to log into Google Classroom using your child’s login. Remember to include @albancityschool.herts.sch.uk Please let us know if you are struggling, we can show you or if you would rather a paper copy. In …
Sep 05 2025
Welcome Back!
Welcome to Year 3! Everyone has come back and settled extremely positively. The classrooms have been buzzing and busy! Alongside choosing their classroom rules, we have made our own number systems; created stone age art and imagined creative adventure stories. Reading books have been sent home. Please bring these and the reading …
Jul 18 2025
3D shapes and pneumatic machines!
Congratulations to the whole of Year 3 for a fabulous Recorder Concert on Tuesday morning. It was so impressive to see see and hear the progress you have made this year with such tricky music. We finished our books inspired by the Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and we will be reading them …
Jul 11 2025
A day in the life of a Roman soldier!
What a busy week; our transition session in Year 4; our school open evening; and our Roman Day today! Here are some photos of our fabulous day! Everyone made a shield (scutum) and a sword (gladius). We marched down to the playground with our shields and made the testudo (tortoise) formation, which made the Roman …
Jul 04 2025
Magical Maths: spirals, pentagons, triangles and measuring mocktails!
This week in year 3 we were learning about volume and capacity in Maths, with all these skills to make our own ideal mocktails using these maths skills, they had to be very precise so it tasted the best! In Science we explored the parts of a flower and even dissected one and put the …
Jun 20 2025
Pots of art!
Our week has been very focused on Art and Pottery. We have been working hard on our portraits ready for you to take a look at and perhaps buy at our Open Day. On Wednesday and Thursday everyone had the opportunity to make a Roman Face Pot with Mrs Booy. She is taking them to …
