In Year 3, we learn our 3,4 and 8 times tables with the associated division facts. We apply these to other areas of maths, including fractions and solving words problems with bar models. In English, we love reading books by Dick King Smith and books that link to our Ancient Egypt history topic. Our writing targets include using commas in a list and expanded nouns phrases to make our writing interesting to read. When learning about punctuation, we use inverted commas for dialogue, apostrophes for contractions and apostrophes for possession. In Science, we learn about the human body, light, rocks, forces and plants. Our History topics include the Stone Age to the Iron Age, Ancient Egypt and the Mayans. In Geography, we learn about fieldwork in the local area, sketching maps, locating cities in the UK and we look at land use in this country. To find out about what we learn in other subjects see our long term plan. We think Year 3 is particularly special because we enjoy all the opportunities during our first year of Key Stage 2, including taking part in a carol concert in church and exciting school trips.
Art
#y3art We’ve enjoyed our observational drawing this afternoon! 💐 ☀️ ✏️
#y3art We’ve been investigating different tones and textures in our sketch books this afternoon! ✏️
Class 3 have used a template to create their own animal tessellation artwork #y3art
Class 3 have been creating their own tessellation artwork in the style of M.C.Escher #y3art
This afternoon, class 3 created self portraits in the style of Picasso using collages #y3art
Computing
Class 3 have been programming and recording instructions to show how we control and change characters on Scratch #y3computing
Class 3 have been planning and designing a magazine in computing #y3computing
Class 3 have been exploring how to change font style, size and colour this afternoon. We also learnt how to use the shift key to add capital letters, exclamation marks and question marks #y3computing
#internetsafetyweek #y3computing #ourschool We have been looking at the positives and negatives of AI voice assistants this morning! 🔈🔇 Ask is what we think 😃
#y3computing
We’re reaching the end of our programming unit! We have learn SO much! We can use Scratch (this can be accessed at home for free) to create various sprites and backgrounds, make them move, make them make noise and change their costumes. Have a go at home! 😃
DT
#y3dt scoring, curling and folding in preparation to make our own shell structures!
#y3DT We have been busy looking at different product packages this afternoon, comparing them and suggesting what we do and don’t like about them 📦
Class 3 have had a great afternoon making and trialing their Egyptian shadufs. #y3dt
We loved inviting our grown ups in to help us make pulleys this afternoon #y3dt
Class 3 have had 2 busy afternoons! They have made bread and soup! We all enjoyed making and trying them #y3dt
Geography
We have used images of human and physical features and sorted them into a Venn diagram comparing Tickton to Bridlington ##y3geography
Class 3 have been researching counties in the UK and marking them on a map #y3geography
Class 3 have been busy yesterday afternoon and this morning for their geography enquiry question - when is the road busiest in Tickton! We got very excited each time a car passed us. #y3geography
History
Year 3 have been comparing similarities and differences between Ancient Egypt and Ancient Maya #y3history
Class 3 made and tried a hot chocolate recipe that Maya people used to drink. Hot Chocolate with cinnamon! #y3history
Class 3 enjoyed free reading this afternoon. They chose to read our Ancient Egypt books. #ourschool #y3history
French
We have been busy writing letters to Father Christmas in French this morning 🎅#y3french
We ended our French lesson today with a word-search and a crossword on ‘Les Fruits’ #y3french
We have enjoyed our first French lesson this morning. We have learnt to say and spell 5 animals #y3french
We have been practicing saying hello to our friends #y3french
We have been using our French phonics knowledge to complete a piece of writing #y3french
PE
#y3pe What a credit to the school these children have been! We’ve seen true sportsmanship throughout and it has been so lovely to see. Well done Y3 😀
#y3pe Our first swimming lesson was much better than these pictures 😅 Well done Year 3! 🏊
Maths
Class 3 have been using analogue clocks to tell the time to 5 minutes #y3maths
Fantastic team work in Y3 this morning! 💰 #y3maths
#y3maths We have been busy finding fractions of amounts this week! 🧮
#y3maths We’re busy looking at volume and capacity in year 3! 💧
Class 3 have been comparing their height and feet length in centimetres. We discussed who was the tallest/shortest in our groups #y3maths
Reading
#y3english #y3reading #VIPERS 🦦 What a lovely new book we have! 😀
Class 3 have enjoyed making predictions about their new guided reading book. They used the cover, blurb and first page to help them. We are looking forward to seeing what is going to happen #y3reading
Class 3 have finished their guided reading book ‘the ancient Egypt sleepover’. We have enjoyed reading this book alongside or history topic! Today we discussed what we enjoyed about the book and if we would read it again. #y3reading
We are so excited to have our new guided reading books!! 🛕 We have been busy making predictions about what might happen, I wonder if any of us get it right?! #y3reading #y3english
Writing
Class 3 being excellent partners whilst using thesauruses this morning during English #y3writing
We worked so hard on our human sentences learning how to rearrange clauses in our writing #y3writing
Class 3 achieving their OPBs writing their letters to Santa #y3writing
We are working hard on our spelling rule adding my #y3writing
Class 3 working hard using dictionaries in English #y3writing
Science
Year 3 have been exploring soil. They collected soil, investigated what was in it and have added water to it to it. We found all sorts! Then we will observe it to identify how the water changes it’s appearance over time. #y3science
Class 3 have been grouping different rocks by looking at their properties #y3science
Class 3 have explored how we can change the size of shadows #y3science
Class 3 have been testing different materials to see which are the most reflective! #y3science
Class 3 have been working together to identify and label different bones in the human body. #Y3science
Music
#y3music We’re enjoying our Reggae unit so far! 🎶
#y3music We’re enjoying our glockenspiel stage so far! 🎶
#y3music some very blurry photos from todays music lesson! Warm ups are hard to capture 😅
#y3music We’ve started learning some R & B in year 3 🎶
Class 3 playing along to some jazz music #y3music
RE
We enjoyed learning the Sikh story of The Rich Man and The Needle through drama this morning. Ask us to tell you the story #y3re
#y3re our reflection area is in full use and looking beautiful! Thank you so much for the kind donations that the children brought in! ✨
We enjoyed our lesson with Mrs Jeffrey from the church this morning. Ask us about St. Paul #y3re
We enjoyed finding similarities and differences between 3 religious festivals using Venn diagrams #y3re
We have enjoyed making tissue paper poppies for our Remembrance Day display called ‘Peace is in our hands’ #y3re
Jigsaw
#y3pshce #y3jigsaw We have been thinking about choices that help us grow today. We hope our ideas benefit others too!