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Vesuvius awakes!
Maths This week, we have reached the end of our unit on mass and capacity. Children compared capacity and added different volumes together, converting measurements into litres when needed. Next week, we will move on to the second Fractions unit. Vesuvius is victorious! This week, we enjoyed reading ‘Escape from Pompeii’. The children were Read More
Read newsA wonderful trip to Harlow Carr!
Year 3 had a very exciting start to the new term with their trips to Harlow Carr. 3SB on Tuesday were a little bit luckier with the weather than 3B, who had some wind, rain and even hailstones to contend with. They did not let this stop their fun though, and both classes had Read More
Read newsHappy Holidays!
It has been a jam packed term full of assessments, visits to the farm and new learning! Throughout this term, we have been practising singing ‘The Three Little Birds’ and have used our glockenspiels and other instruments as part of our performance. Here are the performances from both classes. We hope you enjoy! Next Read More
Read newsThis week in Year 3
We’ve had a great week in Year 3! English The children have been writing diary entries from the point of view of crew members on board The Endurance. We have been really impressed with the way the children got into role and with the descriptive language they have chosen. Here are some of our Read More
Read newsA busy week!
Science This week, Year 3 had the task to create a new vertebrate. Children enjoyed looking at the way it might move, its habitat, what it eats and what it looks like. We had a range of creatures with very interesting names! English This week, we learned more about Ernest Shackleton’s life and the Read More
Read newsWorld Book Day in Year 3!
We had a great time celebrating World Book Day on Thursday! Year 3 thought of some fabulous costumes and adjectives, including highly visible, smart, festive, dark, sporty, sparkly, cool and explosive! Oh, and of course Happy, Sneezy, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy and Dopey! We worked in groups to discuss the adjectives we had chosen and Read More
Read newsWill you be joining us?
Maths We have continued learning about length and perimeter, focusing on equivalents using metres, centimetres and millimetres. Children enjoyed using their understanding to measure the heights of their friends and write this in metres and centimetres. Join us on the Endurance! We have enjoyed learning about the robust Endurance and the places she sailed Read More
Read newsIce Trap!
Welcome back to a new half term in Year 3! It’s been a great first week back, with the children showing lots of enthusiasm for our new topics, especially our new class texts, ‘Ice Trap!’ and ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. We started the week by looking at the following job advert: Most of us were not Read More
Read newsHappy Holidays
It has been a super busy week full of new learning and experiments and the children have really impressed with their effort and attitude when working in groups. Maths This week, we have come to the end of our maths unit focusing on multiplication and division. We concentrated on dividing using flexible partitioning and Read More
Read newsFee, Fi, Fo, Fum!
Year 3 have worked incredibly hard this week on their alternative versions of Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been so impressed with the effort the children have put in and with the fantastic writing everyone has produced. It has been really lovely to see the children enjoying writing, with some children keen to Read More
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