Year 3
Year 3
Miss Purewal
Email address: purewal.h1@welearn365.com
It has been an absolute pleasure to teach the 24-25 Year 3 cohort this year - what a fun bunch they are! I am so pleased with how far they have all come during their journey in Year 3. I am sure they will go on to be very successful in Year 4 with Mr Andrews. We want to thank all the parents/carers for all the support you have given the class this year.
We do not expect to be given gifts from the children, but want to give a heartfelt thanks to those of you who have given a gift or made a card for us! We will treasure these!
We hope you have a great and restful summer, ready for Year 4!
Miss Purewal, Mrs Reynolds & Mr Watkins
Roman Lunt Fort - The Children had a great time exploring what it would be like to be a Roman Soldier!
Sports Day Fun!
Maths Learning Event: Year 3 Pupils posed a question to their parents and carers - What is your favourite family activity? The children then collected the live data using a tally chart and showed how to accurately present this data in a bar chart.
The Pollination Game
The children have been learning about the function of a flower and all about pollinators. They played the pollination game to better understand the process of pollination and to see how quickly they could work as a team of pollinators to pollinate 4 flowers.
Super stems
Year 3 have been learning about the parts of a plant and their functions. They have used coloured water to see how the stem work to transport water throughout plants.
Year 3 introduced our new value for this half term (Responsibility) in collective worship
🪴 PROJECT PLANET 🌻 - We are so proud of all of the children for their exceptional performances of our Easter production. We really hope you enjoyed watching the show, thank you for all of your continued help and support. Well done everyone!
Year 3 and 4 took part in British Science Week by investigating how a far a bottle rolls down a ramp, when you change the type of surface the bottle has. We used bubble wrap, socks and sand paper to conduct our investigation and recorded our findings.
Year 3 pupils visited Coombe Abbey park to take part in a river study. They took measurements of the river and learned about the different wildlife that can be found living in and around the river. Pupils also did some pound dipping and identified some of the creatures they found.
Shadows
Year 3 have been learning how shadows are made, which materials make the best shadows and exploring how to change the size of shadows. They had a brilliant time putting this learning together to create a shadow puppet performance.
Year 3 DT Learning Celebration - we hope you enjoyed helping us with our sewing skills!
Light
Year 3 have been learning that we need light in order to see and that darkness is the complete absence of light. The children enjoyed guessing what was in the different bear caves. With the window closed and no light allowed in, they soon realised that this was impossible. When we repeated the activity with the window open and a small amount of light getting in, they were much more successful.
Year 3 delivered the Christmas Service at church this morning by telling a Victorian Christmas Story and reminding Mr Scrooge the true meaning of Christmas! Well done to all the Year 3 Children!
Magnetic games - the children used their knowledge of magnetic forces to design and make games. The enjoyed playing each other's games and evaluating them.
Pupils took part in an NRICH Maths Rich Task where they were encouraged to think mathematically and identify patterns. In their pairs, the worked together to prove or disprove theories.
Year 3 produced line drawings and charcoal sketches of animals we could find in the wild locally. We also created land art out on our playground and field, taking inspiration from Andy Goldsworthy.
Biscuit Stonehenge! Pupils took on a tasty looking challenge to try and recreate Stonehenge out of custard creams and bourbon biscuits.
Year 3 took part in a PE Wellbeing Event at Kingsley Playing Fields on Wednesday afternoon. The children enjoyed taking part in different activities lead by their wellbeing ambassadors.
Year 3 took a lovely, sunny walk down the canal to our School's garden. Children used magnifying glass to inspect insects in the area.
Fossils The children made their own moulds to cast a fossil. They were able to talk through the fossilisation process as they worked. The following week they took on the role of palaeontologist to carefully excavate their fossil.
A visit from the Stone Age! In this immersive experience, pupils were able to take part in handling artefacts, hunting a woolly mammoth, caving painting, digging like an archaeologist and archery!
In science we have been learning all about rocks, soil and fossils. Today we handled and learnt about a variety of rocks and fossils when our visitor Mrs West came in. We had a brilliant morning being young palaeontologists.
In our Theme lessons we are learning about the Stone Age. We used toilet roll to demonstrate and visualise how long the Stone Age lasted for compared to the last 2024 years since Jesus was born.
Maths - We have been focusing on adding and subtracting 1-digit numbers to/from 3-digit numbers this week! We have been looking at which strategies work best for us individually - representations, number lines, column method.
In our learning event this week, pupils told parents/carers the story of Stone Age Boy. They worked together to create a storyboard of what might happen to them if they went back in time to the Stone Age!
