Welcome to Year 3
Welcome to Spring Term in Year 3!
Miss Jackson will be teaching on Mondays and Tuesdays, and Miss Christie will be teaching on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; Mrs McDonald and Mrs Pullan will be our teaching assistants.
On this page, you should find everything you need to know - our Meet the Teacher Information Evening presentation, curriculum map, knowledge organisers and weekly blog are a full of information but please contact us should there be anything else you need.
Year 3 Class Blog
Happy Hols!
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A short half term but a good one - lots of super learning and fun! This week, the children have enjoyed competing in the Brownlee triathlon, continued with some artistic sculptures, written character descriptions of their favourite film characters and kept practising telling the time. Any further practice of time-telling over the half term holiday (both analogue and digital) would be really beneficial and please remember our PE sessions will both be on a Wednesday next half term with us taking part in Forest School, and other than that, just have a lovely holiday and see you back for the last half term of Year 3 in 10 days!
Rounding Off Another Week
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Another hot and busy week in Year 3 has come and gone! We've been writing for pleasure, telling the time and drawing some Dogman* characters using our super art skills! We also managed to choose the only non-sunny afternoon for our rounders lesson yesterday! However, it was good fun and the breeze helped cool people down after racing to score a rounder! Don't be practising too hard for the 2028 Year 6 vs. Staff match, please children!
*Dogman is certainly a class favourite at the moment and it's great to see the children so eager to read. Whilst we don't want to stilt the children's enthusiasm, please try to encourage your child to read a range of different types of book to support their vocabulary and comprehension, which we will also be encouraging in school.
A letter has gone home tonight about spellings - please ensure you have all 3 parts and let us know if there are any queries in time for the first week back.
There has also been a letter go home about Forest Schools. Your child should have a yellow highlighted letter or a blue highlighted letter which indicates their group. Again, if there are any queries, let Miss Jackson or me know.
Learning about Religion
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 3 Class Blog
The children have done lots of learning about gods and goddesses this week! In RE, they were furthering their knowledge of Hindus, who worship different gods and goddesses on different days of the week. They practised some meditation - some really enjoyed this practice and could see how it would help clear your mind and focus your attention on what really matters to you, whatever that might be. Then in history, we were learning about some of the key gods and goddesses in Ancient Greece - can you remember who Zeus' daughter was, Year 3? Have a lovely weekend - enjoy the sunshine!
Democracy!
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Coincidentally with it being Polling Day yesterday, Year 3 were learning about Ancient Greek democracy in Athens, which was the beginnings of the voting system we still use today! Of course, women were not seen as important enough to have had the vote in those days, which was most disappointing to the girls, though from their suffragette learning in Year 2, they were able to see how democracy has come on since Ancient Greek times!
A reminder - please ensure all green reading records are in school on Thursdays with at least one comment for the week about how the reading is going and whether the book is finished or to be continued. Thank you.
Ancient Greece, here we come!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 3 Class Blog
This week has seen the start of our Ancient Greece topic and so far, we have had a great start! The children have found out lots of Greek vocabulary, collaborated on a research task and started to think about Greek city states. Can you remember how many years ago the Ancient Greeks were around, Year 3?! Take a look at some of our research below:
