We had a busy first week back, we warmed up our writing skills using a picture of a path through the countryside. First we used a thesaurus to help us find interesting words to use, then we wrote sentences to describe different parts of the picture. Finally, we imagined we were in the picture and …
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Year 3 – Amber and Vermilion
Feb 14 2025
Mountains and Pizzas Part 2!
This week Vermillion became pizza experts. We planned our pizzas, measured our ingredients and kneaded the dough. Our dough was left over lunchtime and the rise on the dough was impressive! We shaped the dough, grated cheese, spread tomato sauce and chopped mushrooms, peppers and chicken. The pizzas went into a hot oven and the …
Feb 07 2025
Mountains and pizzas part 1!
It was Amber’s turn to focus on pizza making this week. We planned it, made it and evaluated it; developing our kneading, rolling, slicing and spreading skills. See below for photos of our pizza making. Lots of staff visited us because it smelt so good! I bet you can’t wait Vermillion! Meanwhile, Vermillion were learning …
Jan 31 2025
An interesting week in Year 3 !
Wow, what a week in Year 3! Our feeling of the week was interesting and I think all the children and staff in Year 3 found our learning very interesting this week. Early in the week we investigated which materials make good shadows. We learnt that opaque materials make the best shadows and we were …
Jan 17 2025
Light, times tables and tectonic plates!
Another exciting week in Year 3! In English we wrote interesting descriptions of the Rich King from War and Peas. Then we worked on using prepositions to add detail to our writing. In Maths we are working on our 3 times table. We made arrays to show these number facts and used manipulatives to calculate …
Jan 10 2025
Welcome back!
It has been lovely to welcome everyone back after the Christmas holidays. We hope you all had a wonderful break. Thank you again for all your kind gifts -the whole team are very grateful. In English we have started using a new book as a stimulus for our writing called ‘War and Peas’. This week …
Dec 19 2024
Panto, Recorder Performance and a Big Thank You!
We have just completed our final week at school for 2024. It has been action packed full of rehearsals, performances and special work. The Pantomime was fun with lots of opportunities to join in. Year 3 hard at work performing our Christmas Recorder Concert!( See photo below). Well done everyone and thank you for all …
Dec 13 2024
A winter storm with a heroic mission, curious Christmas facts and polygons!
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 …
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. …
