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
Stone Age Adventurers
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This week we have learnt lots more about Stone Age history, started reading our class novel, Stig of the Dump, and begun to plan our first independent write of 2025, all about a modern child who ends up in the Stone Age! We also had great fun at the house dodgeball competition (well done, Kirkstall!) and tackled some tricky maths, partitioning numbers to multiply and divide them. Don't forget to keep up with Mathletics tasks which will be uploaded tonight and to practise Week 2's spellings ready for next Friday. Have a great weekend!
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year! A cold, snowy, icy one, but hopefully a great one! The children have done really well this week, settling back into school with no outdoor playtimes and lots of new learning. Our dictionary work from our reading about washing woolly mammoths (!) is depicted below but the children have also been getting into character as Stone Age boys and girls, finding out about rocks types and learning about big life changes. Well done for getting through this first week back, Year 3 - enjoy a well deserved rest this weekend!!
Please Note - Spellings for this half term are on the class page - Week 1 spellings will be tested next Friday - We have spoken this afternoon about how there will now be one word chosen at random from the spellings which is given to the children for them to write their own sentence to show their understanding of the word.e.g. If the word is 'myth', they might write, 'The teacher read a myth to the children from a long time ago.' 7 of the 10 words will now be written as dictation (building up to all 10 by the end of the year). Mrs McDonald's group will stick with 5 for now.
Happy Christmas!
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We're having a fun-filled day to end a great week - the children started the week as polar explorers and enjoyed reading Pugs of the Frozen North in 'Arctic' conditions! They then went on to write some fantastic (and somewhat fear-inducing) complaint letters about unfairness in the race, as well as investigating how many quadrilaterals they could fit into a circle in Mr Routledge's regular maths challenge! The children have also completed their DT project on pneumatic toys, which are brilliant and led to lots of laughter this morning - have a look below! Most are coming home today but some have been selected to be proudly displayed in our DT display in the school entrance! And of course, there have been some Christmassy activities which have made for a very festive environment, and some very excited children!
Finally, I just wanted to thank you so much for your generous presents and cards. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Miss Jackson and I will be excited to welcome the children back in January! Have a great holiday.
Penultimate Week!
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This week, the children have almost finished their pneumatic toys in DT, investigated how shadows change in Science, and considered whether they would rather explore the world with Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus, Ernest Shackleton or Matthew Henson (they are very knowledgeable so do ask their opinions!), as well as completing some end of term tests and practising their 8 times tables in maths! It's been non-stop but there has been some super learning going on!
Next week starts with a bang, dressing as polar explorers, so please check the app message if you haven't already to see what to wear. There will be no spelling test next week but I am asking the children to complete the next 16 words on our Year 3/4 expected spellings sheet (sent out last half-term but on the Year 3 page of the website if required - this half term's words are below) in their best handwriting. Please could these be handed in on Wednesday to avoid the Christmas rush. There will be house points for the children making the most progress in their handwriting this half-term.
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Light Science
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This week, the children have concluded their computing topic on desktop publishing - watch this space for the results! We have also done some brilliant sentence stacking as well as starting our new class read, Pugs of the Frozen North - it's already proving a hit! Then this afternoon, we were learning about the words 'opaque', 'translucent' and 'transparent' in science, and what better way to check our understanding than by testing what happens with some torch-light on our classroom objects...and friends! Super practical science!
