On this page you will find all the News from Years 3.
This week in Year 3 we have worked hard to continue our English and Maths learning - we are getting ready for our first independent star write in the next few weeks! We have enjoyed our work on fossils and rocks and seeing what we can learn from them and how they are made.
This week in Year 3 we have enjoyed learning about the different ways rocks are formed. We have also worked hard in our place value unit in Maths and are ready to move onto our addition and subtract unit! Having read our story of Cave Baby, we have started to generate vocabulary to use when we retell the story in a few weeks.
This week in Year 3 we have been excited to start all our new topics! Stone Age for History, Rocks for Science and Sikhism for R.E. We especially enjoyed making a human timeline on the playground for history and noticing just how long ago the Stone Age was!
We have had a really enjoyable week getting to know all the children in Year 3. They have come back from the summer break so focused and ready to learn, which is wonderful! We have enjoyed thinking about how to be resilient and how we can use this skill throughout the year to face all the new challenges of the year group.
Also attached in advance of the meeting are the slides for the 'Welcome to Year 3' parent meeting.
Well it was a busy week for Year 3 in the lead up to the big finish, with plenty of learning building on our knowledge of time in Maths, writing letters and beautifully descriptive writing pieces for our next Year 4 teachers as well as creating amazing double page spreads showing all that we have learnt in Geography and History over the year. We have just about coped in the heat as well!
This week we have been fortunate enough to have a skipping workshop which was great fun! Our trip to Sutton High Street was useful and we were able to really unpick the different shops and land usage that we saw. Finally, Sports Day to end the week was great and the children all worked really hard.
Another busy week in Year 3 as we continued with our Science topic about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We had a discussion in class as to whether recycling or reusing is best for the environment and the children came up with some lovely ideas! We were also fortunate enough to watch the Year 6 performance - an amazing show with lots of fun songs and characters that I know the children all enjoyed. They all also met their new teachers this week and have started to feel inspired by their new exciting topics!
This week Year 3 enjoyed their personal bests challenges! We were very proud of how hard everyone worked and how supportive each team was for each other. Our new book, 'Dear Earth' has really inspired us to start thinking about how beautiful our planet truly is and how humans are starting to change it!
This week in Year 3 we have been completing our termly booklets and everyone has worked so hard to demonstrate all the fantastic learning and progress that they have made this week. The children have continued looking at 3D structures in Art, starting to consider the shapes that we can see in a structure and how we might be able to make this.
This week the children have started to learn about our local area and the borough of Sutton, many of us were shocked at just how large a population it has. Every week the children have been taking part in their Spanish lessons and it is amazing to hear how confident they now are in talking about their likes and dislikes as well as when their birthday's are! We started an experiment in Science about which recycled materials make the best plant pots and are eagerly waiting to see our plants grow.
What a brilliant start to the new half term! Year 3 have all come back focused and ready to learn for our final half term. We have started a new writing unit where we will be looking at writing a biography about William Kamkwamba; the children have been amazed at his resilience and determination. Our new Art unit on 3D sculptures interested everyone and we had a great discussion about whether Robert Morris's installation Bodyspacemotionthings at the Tate Modern counted as Art!
We have had a busy week again to finish off the half term. We all finished our diary entry star write and the children have really excelled themselves with their ideas! At the end of the week, we read the poem ''Cosmic Disco" by Grace Nichols and thought about our tone, actions and volume when performing it in groups on Friday. We were able to finish our learning about the Shang Dynasty, having discovered all their incredible achievements and ultimately what battle ended their reign!