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Year 3 2024-2025

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Term 5

Term 4- Weeks 5 and 6

Over the last 2 weeks, we have celebrated our Ancient Egypt homework, learnt about scales and kilograms, investigated which sunglasses were the most effective, written interesting setting descriptions and completed our Egyptian collars using appliqué and cross stitch!

Term 4- Weeks 3 and 4

We have been very busy over the last couple of weeks! We have been cross- stitching and using the running stitch, we explored the school for reflective surfaces and then used mirrors to change the direction of light, we have explored historical sources and what they might tell us about people of the past, we investigated how shadows change throughout the day, and we have continued working on our attacking and defending skills in football!

Term 4 Weeks 1 and 2

We have been freeze framing, exploring the Ancient Egyptians, learning to dribble with accuracy in football, coding characters on Purple Mash, measuring perimeter and learning to cross stitch!

Term 4

Term 4 - Spellings

Term 3

Term 3 - Homework

Term 3 - Spellings

Term 3- Weeks 5 and 6

Over the last 2 weeks of term, the children have completed their pneumatic toys, experimented with our PowerPoints (using transitions and animations) worked in groups to design gardens in RSE- then presenting their projects to the class and enjoying all Science Week had to offer!)

Term 3: Weeks 3 and 4

Over the last couple of weeks we have been busy learning how to speed up and slow down when running, we've started learning the rules of Quidditch, we have continued to create our pneumatic toys, we have been exploring division using partitioning, creating our own powerpoints and using our internet searching skills, we had a great time playing ultimate frisbee and enjoyed our trip to Leybourne Lakes to explore a woodland setting.

Fortnight beginning 10th January

The children have had lots of fun creating their pneumatic toys in DT. They've also been working hard to learn the model text in English and identifying the key features of a persuasive piece of writing.

Weeks of 16th December and 6th January

Term 2

Term 2 - Spellings

Term 2 - Homework

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In the last week of Term 2, we were testing the strength of magnets, completing our festive wrapping paper, sharing compliments and creating traps for naughty gingerbread men¬ The first week of Term 3, we have been practising out handwriting, learning about balance and the Quidditch balls and designing spy gadgets!

20/12/24

Biome Homework

This term, the children were tasked with completing homework based on our Geography topic of biomes. They produced some excellent work!

Fortnight beginning 2nd December

We're definitely getting into the Christmas spirit in Year 3! The children have worked incredibly hard over the last two weeks to design and create their own wrapping paper inspired by Cath Kidston. We also visited our local Methodist Church to learn about Christingle. The children had lots of fun and even got to make their own Christingle!

Fortnight beginning 18th November

Over the last fortnight, we have been learning about biomes and creating our own biomes in a jar! We have had lots of fun discussing these and creating our own biomes. In science, we have been using magnets to explore which materials the magnets are attracted to. In maths, we have been learning about arrays and how these can help us with our multiplication facts.

Fortnight beginning 4th November 2024

We have been learning our new text The Selfish Giant and creating some freeze frames from the story. We have also been working so hard on our column addition and subtraction, learning to play glockenspiels, and investigating forces.

Term 1

Spellings - Year 2 Common Exception Words

Term 1 - Spellings

Term 1 - Homework

Fortnight Beginning 14th October

We've had an excellent few weeks in Year 3! We've made soil puddings in Science to conclude our topic on 'Rocks' and even made a menu for this! In Hippo Class, we've been learning how to Line Dance as part of our new unit in PE. We also had an excellent workshop teaching us all about Road Safety.

Fortnight beginning 30th September 2024

We have been investigating place value with number games, creating our own natural, Stone-Age paints, re-creating the rock cycle using Starburst, identifying verbs and using them in the past simple and the past progressive, and we had a lovely visit from The Dogs Trust.

Fortnight beginning 15th September 2024

We've got up to lots in the past 2 weeks! Year 3 began Forest School in week 3 and have had lots of fun working collaboratively with their peers. In Maths, the children have been exploring the place value of numbers and really challenging themselves. In art, we have been creating line drawings for our prehistoric art topic. In English, we've been completing a shared write and writing our own information texts about mythical creatures!

Fortnight beginning 2nd September 2024

What an exciting first fortnight we have had in Year 3. We have enjoyed our rocks days with Mr Berry, experimented with different ways to represent numbers up to 1,000, learnt all about Stone Age tools and cave paintings, and started writing about dragons!