Year 3 Week 7 Friday 18th October

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R.E.

This week the children showed a respectful and prayerfulness atmosphere when they participated in a meditation. They focused on the nature of our world and where they feel they can find and feel God.

Maths

The children worked hard in their end of unit quiz and began to explore their new unit on addition and subtraction. They started with revising their number bonds to ten and seeking links to number bonds to 100 before recapping on methods to add and subtract single ones in three-digit numbers.

English

The children explored their Fantastic Mr. Fox unit further by selecting appropriate vocabulary to describe him and began to use a range of conjunctions to join their sentences. They applied their fantastic descriptive language when constructed wanted posters.

Science

This week the children got out their muscles! They enjoyed flexing and using the scientific language to explain what happens to muscles and why they are needed. They then looked at diet and nutrition and how this is needed to support and strengthen them.

Reminders:

  • Please book parent consultations for Tuesday 22nd October or Thursday 24th October
  • Reading books to be in school every day please.
  • Fri 15th Nov 9.15am Year 3 Class Assembly
    All are welcome to come!

 

We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,

Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
   Mon, Tu & Wed        Th & Fr

Homelearning:

Reading: Expectation is to read with your child for 20 mins a day and comment in the logbook.

Spellings: Edshed activity has been set ‘ture’

Maths: Mathletics activities set are compare to 100’

 

*Additional* Please may you bring in a family/ child photo and a brief description of where your family come from and what the culture is like there? We are trying to build up a world map of where our class comes from.

Thank you for those that have already come in!

Week 6 w.b. 11th October

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R.E.

This week the children recapped their learning from Key Stage One about what The Holy Trinity means. They identified biblical stories that represent God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit. They then looked at different symbols representing The Holy Trinity and used a zone of relevance to organise which one they believed represented the Trinity the best.

Maths

The children are coming to the end of their unit on place value and will be using their knowledge to in addition and subtraction net week. This week they were able to compare and order numbers to 1000 and count in 50s.

English

The children used hot seating to explore the thoughts and actions of a character. We read some more of the story and the children worked in small groups to ask each other questions. They then began to read Chapter 2 and select adjectives to describe Mr.Fox and The Farmers.

Science

This week the children built on their knowledge of the skeleton by looking at joints. They identified two different joint types – hinge and ball-and-socket joints. They were able to name the hips, elbows, knees, shoulder joints, and decide whether these are examples of hinge or ball – and – socket joints.

PE

This week the children explored a series of rolls. They had to use their space effectively and create a sequence of rolls and balances.

Reminders:

  • Reading books to be in school every day please.

 

We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,

Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
   Mon, Tu & Wed        Th & Fr

Homelearning:

 

Reading: Expectation is to read with your child for 20 mins a day and comment in the logbook.

Spellings: Edshed activity has been set ‘sure’

Maths: Mathletics activities set are ‘Place Value 1 and 2’

 

*Additional* Please may you bring in a family/ child photo and a brief description of where your family come from and what the culture is like there? We are trying to build up a world map of where our class comes from. 

Year 3 Week 5 Friday 4th October

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R.E.

This week the children looked at Biblical metaphors and discussed that because we cannot see or touch God we use the world around us for people and things that are, in some way, like him. The children came up with their own metaphors of what God is like for them.

Rooted in Love lesson- Our focus in on Creation this half term. We joined Year 4 and learnt all about how the world is gifted to us by God and we shared ideas of how we can appreciate that gift.

English

The children finished drafting their final pieces this week and spent a lot of time and effort writing them up in neat. Their drawings are nearly finished and will then be displayed to match their writing.

The children will be reading and learning about Fantastic Mr Fox and are welcome to bring in their home copies to read in class.

Maths

The children worked well to identify 1 , 10 or 100 more and less of given numbers and had to really think about which digit needs to change.
They also revisited number lines but they went all the way up to 1000 in different intervals. They worked well to explore what they think it went up in.

PE

In PE this week the children were demonstrating different, graceful ways of getting from the floor to the ground and vice versa. They also looked at how they can perform symmetrically and asymmetrically.

 

Reminders:

  • Reading books to be in school every day please.

 

We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,

Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
Mon, Tu & Wed        Th & Fr

 

Homelearning:

 

Reading: Expectation is to read with your child for 20 mins a day and comment in the logbook.

Spellings: Edshed activity has been set ‘Words where the digraph ‘y’ makes an /i/ sound’

Maths: Mathletics activities set are ‘Place Value 1 and Model numbers’

 

*Additional*
Please may you bring in a family/ child photo and a brief description of where your family come from and what the culture is like there?
We are trying to build up a world map of where our class comes from.

 

As mentioned in the Newsletter email-

This week your children should come home with a Christmas Card design sheet in their bags. This is for our annual Christmas card project run by Emma Linden on behalf of FOPPS. Please send your child’s design back into school by next Friday 11th October. Christmas cards with their design will be able to be purchased later on in the term. We shall organise a design collection box by the back door in the KS2 playground. Please do not give the design in to the office.

Year 3 Week 4 Friday 27th September

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R.E.

On Wednesday afternoon, the children were preparing to retell the story of Moses and the Burning Bush. They enjoyed listening to the story and having Deacon Sean in to share the session with us. They also learnt that the main character in this story is a man called MOSES and we produced a mind map of what we already know about him.

Maths

The children have continued to explore numbers within 100 this week and worked hard placing them on a number line. They challenged themselves to go beyond and started to count in multiples of 100. They then went on to partition numbers to 100 using the same method as we shared last week.

English

The children loved watching the whole of our story this week and worked well to collect alliteration and rhyming language. They have even started to plan and draft their final pieces so watch this space next week!

Science

This week the children looked at animals without a spine. They also learnt that an animal without a spine has an exoskeleton, which is there to protect it. They labelled diagrams and were able to identify and compare which animals have a spine and which ones have an exoskeleton.

PE

In PE this week the children were focusing on holding balances with good control and finding ways of moving out of one balance and into another.

 

Reminders:

  • There is no need for chalk pens or sharpies in their pencil cases thank you.
  • Please have reading books in school every single day. It’s challenging to hear every child read without these.

 We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,

Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
   Mon, Tu & Wed        Th & Fr

 

Homelearning:

Reading: Expectation is to read with your child for 20 mins a day and comment in the logbook.

Spellings: Edshed activity has been set
‘Words where the digraph ‘ou’ makes an /u/ sound’
Week two ‘ou’ when it makes ‘u’ e.g. touch.

Maths: Please log on to Mathletics and then let us know if you need a user reminder.
We have set the activity ‘Numberline’ to complete. 

 

Year 3 Week 2 13th September

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Year 3 Week 2 Friday 13th September
Our first full week in Year 3!

Apologies for teacher sickness and for having to reschedule
*Meet the teacher meeting on Thursday 19th September at 8:45am*

R.E.
The focus this week was on Apostle Paul. The children discussed the role of the Apostles as messengers and considered how we can be messengers of faith in our own lives. They also made their own faith journeys of ways they can share their faith, just like Paul.

 

English
The children enjoyed exploring their first story unit called ‘The black hat’. They role played during the drama lessons and showed fantastic expression to help them understand the character.

P.E. days are Tuesday and Friday
This week the children had their first introduction to PE. They enjoyed being back in the hall and using the space outside. They focused on how to use the space independently, follow instructions, listening out for the whistle and how to keep themselves and others safe. The topics for this half term are Gymnastics and Invasion Games.

 

Reminders:
• Year 3 curriculum, expectations and home learning will be fully shared at the Meet the teacher meeting on Thursday Friday 19th September at 8:45am. Slides will be uploaded to the class page after the session.
• Please provide your children with a morning snack if they would like and a water bottle daily.
• We welcome boxes of tissues please.
• We would also like any unwanted houseplants to enhance our classroom environment please. Thank you for the donations so far! We will share a picture soon as the children recommend we also draw pictures to display too.

We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,
Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
M, T & W and  Th & F

We look forward to when full attendance allows us to update our whole class pictures.

Welcome to the Autumn Term Year 3

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Hello and welcome to the autumn term in Year 3. 

The children enjoyed their first few days back and welcomed two new children to our class.

The children were excited to explore their new seats, books, resources and navigating the stairs up! They worked well to write and share recounts of their summer break.

The children studied our mission prayer to fully understand what we mean when we say it daily and shared fantastic ideas on the qualities we show.
They transformed the R.E. learning and reflection space to reflect our new year. They were amazing at untangling the fairy lights!

Reminders:

  • P.E. days starting next week: Tuesday and Friday to come in full P.E. kits for outside P.E.
  • Please provide your children with a morning snack if they would like and a water bottle daily.
  • Year 3 curriculum, expectations and home learning will be fully shared at the Meet the teacher meeting on Friday 13th September at 8:45am. Slides will be uploaded to the class page Friday afternoon.
  • We welcome boxes of tissues please.
  • We would also like any unwanted houseplants to enhance our classroom environment please.

We wish you a peaceful weekend and look forward to next week,

Mrs Poyiadzis and Miss Lambie
Mon, Tu & Wed                 Th & Fr

We look forward to next week when full attendance will allow us to update our class pictures.

 

End of the Summer Term 2024

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Not to be different to any other week, Year 3 had a busy week with the highlight being the end of our Design and Technology Unit on Making a Wallet/Purse!

It has been amazing to see how this Design and Technology unit has inspired so many of Year 3, with them sewing eagerly at home.

The children embraced using needles, threading them and sewing using the running stitch and backward stitch.  They also embraced how to attach a button to their designs!   The children really enjoyed spending time this week sewing, all of them were absorbed and engrossed and worked really hard.  Well done everyone!

   

 

Today, we also said“goodbye” to Mrs Vieyra, who has been part of our school community for many years. She has assisted your children this year in class and running our reading intervention programmes.  We will miss her.

Thank you parents for the support you have given your children over this last year.  They have worked so hard and grown so much during their time in Year 3 and we have enjoyed being part of their learning journey.

Thank you also for the generous gifts you have given to Mrs Lines, Mrs Vieyra and myself.  We really appreciate all the kindness you have shown us this year.

Lastly, THANK YOU to our lovely class making us proud every single day.  The funny, sweet, inspirational moments that we share every day with your children make it the best job in the world.

Wishing you all a lovely summer!

Mrs McNamara, Mrs Lines and Mrs Vieyra.

 

Friday 12th July 2024

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This week, the clear highlight was Fun Day. The children had a fabulous time playing games, getting tattoos, bouncing on the bouncy castle, go karting and eating treats! We played bingo with an interactive app.  Click here for the link as the children asked me to post this.  Snakes and Ladders was a firm favourite also alongside the dice game that was played too.  The children also used their timetable and division knowledge to solve the football themed challenge.  The class have also been working on their wallet/purse designs and learning how to sew using the running stitch and backstitch.  We also had Giovana with us these last few days as she has been on her work experience week.  As a past pupil, the children were delighted to hear she came to the school and had chosen to come back here for this week.

 

 

Next week, school finishes at 1pm on Friday 19th July. We will be sending home books and various art projects so please send your child in with a strong bag from Monday.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Lines and Mrs McNamara

 

 

Friday 5th July, 2024

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Another busy week in Year 3 this week!

It was our whole school photograph this morning so the school was buzzing with excitement. Also, thank you so much for your chocolate donations today.  If you have forgotten, please bring in your donation early next week.

In Science the children have explored how water is transported to the different parts of the plant. They first worked in groups and created a human model of how water is taken to the flowers and leaves. Next, they did an experiment to find out how they can ‘see’  that water is sucked up through the stem and then the stem passes water on to the leaves and flowers.

 

 

Unfortunately, only two children remembered to bring into school their sunflower that they have been growing at home.  Please can your child bring to school ON MONDAY their sunflower as we would like to measure how tall they have grown.  Thank you! They will be sent back home with your child.

In Maths, we have continued to look back at division and multiplication, practising the inverse to check our answers. English this week has continued to build final pieces for a Gregory Cool sequel.  In RE the children have been looking at what it means to be a follower of Jesus; in RSE they have looked at considering financial stewardship through budgeting activities and discussions about the pros and cons of different payment methods, and learning about financial risks. In PE the children have continued with their lessons in tennis, learning how to improve their serve.

On Wednesday we were treated to a guitar concert. Well done to Hugo for representing Year 3!

 

Wishing you a wonderful weekend.

Mrs McNamara and Mrs Lines.

Home Learning:

For those children who need some more time to complete their Home Learning from Thursday, please bring in your final pieces by Tuesday.9th July.

arithmetic Year 3   Complete the arithmetic using the link provided.

TTRS – log on and complete the 4, 8 and 10 timestables.

spellingshed- spellings and SPaG.