Year 3
Our Amazing Work!
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Some of the children in Year 3 have been busy baking! They used their maths and social skills to make a batch of delicious buns, which they then shared with the rest of the class. We were so proud of how well they took turns, communicated, and worked together as a team — and the buns were absolutely delicious.
This week, the children brought history to life by reenacting a scene from The Stone Age Boy. They acted out the moment when the Stone Age boy draws on the cave wall to show his large family the woolly mammoth he sees flickering in the shadows of the firelight. The family freezes in fear, believing the boy is using magic.
During our termly No Outsiders lesson, the children explored The Hueys in the New Jumper by Oliver Jeffers. They engaged in thoughtful discussions about the importance of individuality and how being yourself can sometimes require courage and confidence to speak up. The session concluded with some impressive drama performances and beautifully designed “special jumpers,” each reflecting the children’s unique personalities.
For our Aspirations Day, we explored the wonderful world of illustration! We discovered what it takes to be a successful illustrator, taking inspiration from the legendary Quentin Blake.
Take a look at our amazing drawings of The Enormous Crocodile
Last week, year 3 went for a walk in our local area of Pershore. We took maps and discussed what the land use was. We spotted retail, residential, community and recreation. We marked them on our maps.
The year 3 team were so impressed with the wonderful behaviour that the class showed towards members of the public.
Well done year 3!
Maths
In maths, we’ve been using number lines to help with subtraction. We’ve discovered that it’s much easier (and quicker!) to jump to the next multiple of 10 or 100 rather than counting back in ones. This strategy helps us work more efficiently and understand how numbers are connected.
Reading Response
During our reading response sessions, we have been exploring and summarising key moments from the story. In this piece, we focus on the thrilling scene where Arthur finds himself being chased by a fearsome giant cat.
Science
In Science, we have been learning all about the human skeleton. We had great fun working in groups to draw around each other and create life-sized skeletons! We then labelled the key bones and described their main functions, deepening our understanding of how the skeleton supports and protects the body.
Writing Poetry
At the start of this term, we read a beautiful book all about the Northern Lights. Inspired by its stunning imagery, we wrote our own poems capturing the beauty of the lights and how they touch the many creatures of the Arctic on their journey across the sky. Here is one of the wonderful poems.
Writing a narrative
Recently, in our writing lessons, we have been inspired by a magical story about a boy who tumbles into an enchanted land filled with wonder and surprise. Using this as our inspiration, we created our own imaginative narratives, brimming with excitement, adventure, and extraordinary discoveries.
Geography
In Geography, we have been exploring our local community and learning all about the features that make Pershore special. During our learning walk, we investigated how the land is used in different parts of the town and enjoyed seeing our classroom learning come to life. We then “zoomed out” to take a wider look at the United Kingdom, identifying its countries and the seas that surround our beautiful islands.
Art
This term in Art, we have been experimenting with different pencil gradients and exploring a variety of shading techniques to bring our drawings to life. Using these new skills, we carefully sketched the features of our own faces, focusing on light, tone, and detail. The results were truly impressive — a wonderful showcase of our creativity and growing confidence as artists!
🌟 Welcome Back, Year 3! 🌟
Hello Year 3! We are so excited to welcome you back to school after the holidays. This year is going to be full of new adventures, fun learning, and exciting challenges. In Year 3, you’ll become even more confident readers, curious scientists, amazing mathematicians, and brilliant writers. We can’t wait to see your wonderful ideas, creativity, and teamwork shine.
Get ready for a fantastic year of learning, laughter, and growing together.
2024-2025
Y3 used Lego Spike to create a carnival ride. We followed step by step instructions to assemble the different parts. We then programmed Lego Spike by giving it commands to make the ride move smoothly. Great work!
Y3 have been designing and making a Roman chariot in DT. They have been showing super teamwork and fantastic use of equipment. Next step – painting!
Y3 had a great time ‘boogie bouncing’ in PE this week.
Litter Warriors came into school and helped us with some litter picking! We collected so much rubbish. Even a crisp packet from 1992!
Y3 had a great time at Envirosort! We learnt so much about waste, what we can and can’t recycle and even a true story about a 10ft snake in a recycling bin!! The best part was visiting the factory and seeing all the recycling being sorted. We are eco heroes!
Y3 have been enjoying their gymnastics lessons. We have been using the apparatus to show balances, jumps, rolls and travelling movements. We have also been working collaboratively to create sequences!
Welcome back, Year 3!
This half term our topic is “Road Trip USA”. We will start by looking at the continent of North America before focusing on the country of USA. We will explore the USA looking at the 50 states and key landmarks, discussing whether they are a human feature or a physical feature.
PE continues to be on a Monday and Friday.
Over the last few weeks, Y3 have been enjoying learning about rocks! We have been exploring the three different types of rocks – sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous. We showed how the different rocks are formed by performing an experiment with starburst!
Y3 enjoyed having their grown ups in! We showed them our new library and we shared a book together.
Y3 have started their new topic in science – ROCKS! We had so much fun looking at all the different rocks as well as learning their names.
Y3 have been looking at arrays in maths. We created our own and then wrote down the multiplication sum. Super work!
Y3 have enjoyed working as a team in DT to create a strong and stable structure. We even made a circuit!
As a treat for reading SO many times, some of us went to Forest School and had so much fun climbing trees, building and exploring.
Y3 loved taking part in the cross-country run. We have some super speedy sprinters!
We went on a locality walk for our Geography lesson this week. We looked at the land use – residential, community, recreational, etc.
In Geography, Y3 have been using atlases to locate different hills, mountains and rivers in the UK. They did a great job and worked so hard!
Welcome to Foxes class!
We are looking forward to welcoming you back to school and into Y3! Miss Hughes and Mrs Reynolds will be teaching you this year.
A few reminders…
PE days are Monday and Friday (please come to school wearing your PE kit)
Please label jumpers, coats, bottles, etc.
Lets have a great year!
2023-2024
Foxes class loved ‘Thrills Day’. We showed lots of resilience and had so much fun!
Foxes had a great time dressing up as rockstars for TTRS day! Rock on!
Foxes enjoyed using their sewing skills. We created a money holder using a running stitch. Super effort, Year 3!
Year 3 loved Boogie Bounce!! We had so much fun exercising in the sun!
Year 3 have begun learning about making stop motion animation in the computing lessons.
Y3 had a DT day this week. We created a locomotive with axels, wheels and a brake. We then went outside to test them out. This task required teamwork, good listening, and hard work. Well done, Foxes!
Karen from Litter Warriors came to visit Y3 on Tuesday. We learnt so much from her! We even got to do some litter picking around the school grounds. We collected SO much litter – we even found a crisp packet from 1992!
Y3 had a great morning at Envirosort. We learnt so much about waste, what we can and can’t recycling and even a true story about a 10ft snake in a recycling bin!! The best part was visiting the factory and seeing all the recycling being sorted. We are eco heroes!
We had a DT day in Y3! We worked as a team to design, make and evaluate a strong and stable structure. We even had a go at creating an electrical circuit. Great teamwork, Foxes!
Our new topic in science is ‘rocks and fossils’. We have been exploring the three different types of rocks – sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous. We showed how the different rocks are formed by performing an experiment with starburst!
We then looked at different rocks and sorted them into groups. We used some great vocabulary – heaviest, smoothest, roughest, longest, etc.
Y3 have been looking at land use in Geography. We went on a walk around our local area spotting all the different types of land use.
In Geography we have been using atlases to locate different mountains and hills in the United Kingdom. Miss Hughes was super impressed with our fantastic map skills!
During their English lessons, Y3 have been learning how to improve their vocabulary choices. We have been learning how to use adjectives, adverbs and expanded noun phrases accurately. We have also been learning about synonyms! Look at our wonderful work.
Year 3 Love reading!
We have been visiting our wonderful school library at least twice a week to have a look at all of the brilliant books there.
We have shared books as a class, in groups and also with our friends.
Year 3 has looked at fiction and non-fiction books and has chosen some to take home and share with our families!
