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
World Book Day!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 3 Class Blog
World Book Day was a great success yesterday! Thank you so much for all the effort that went into the brilliant costumes - it really does make a difference when the children are all dressed the part and this year was particularly good! Luckily our very own banana was saved from the grip of Gorilla Routledge, the various Dogmen were on hand to keep order in the classroom and the wizards and witches blended in perfectly amongst the muggles! We had fun reading poetry, reading with friends in the sunshine and using our literary skills all morning!
Stump Cross Caverns!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 3 Class Blog
What a brilliant end to the eek the Year 3s had! From start to finish, the children were engaged and excited about all things fossil, rocks and Stone Age! We had a talk about the history of the caverns first then headed down to see them for ourselves. The stalagmites, stalactites and columns were very impressive - can you remember which one is which, Year 3?! The children loved thinking up new names for the different ones! We even went into a cavern where wolverine bones were once found and tried out a bed where one of the staff had slept during a 3 month challenge living underground - Oscar reckoned he could cope down there for a full year...but we didn't test that out! After a lovely sunny lunch outside with beautiful views of the Dales, we had the chance to build on our class learning about fossils and do our own fossil dig and ammonite fossil casting. A great day had by all!
Half way through the year!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 3 Class Blog
It's been a busy week as usual in Year 3 with the children completing various end of topic quizzes, tests and pieces of writing and despite the obvious excitement and tiredness for the end of the half term, they have taken their work seriously and tried really hard. (I did have some photos but my iPad is also ready for a half term holiday and is not letting me upload them, sorry!) The children will be ready to relax next week - have a great half term and see you when we get back.
PS - Spelling test at the end of the first week back will be a combination of words the children should know from KS1 and I will upload the new spellings in the first week back, ready for Week 2.
Measuring in Maths
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 3 Class Blog
The children have worked hard in maths this week - consolidating their learning around length, converting from metres to centimetres and millimetres as well as learning about what perimeter is. Their addition and subtraction skills are developing to help them with this, as well as their times tables. In Celebration Assembly, we found out that 10 of our class are now completing TTRS questions in under a second!! Incredible! Miss Jackson and I need to get our skates on to catch up!! Keep up the practice too, Year 3 - every little helps!
Oracy
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 3 Class Blog
We've had a great week in Year 3 and have been trying out something a bit different with some new oracy activities - the children are working on their speaking and listening and thinking about what skills and behaviours they need to practise for this. In history, we were learning about how bronze impacted prehistoric Britain, with the children taking on special roles within their groups: readers, summarisers and reporters. It was tricky at first but they had a good try! Then in maths, we played Ladders, where each child shared their thoughts about an odd shape out, considering their language choices carefully to develop a thorough discussion, including, 'I agree with you but...' and 'I did think this but now I have changed my mind because...' The children sounded really grown up and use lots of great mathematical vocabulary!
