Autumn 2

Year 3 had a fun filled Autumn 2. In English we explored fables and fairy tales before using our knowledge of fables to create our moving story books in Design Technology. In Maths we continued to develop our understanding of number, place value and number magnitude before moving on to measure. In Computing we became debuggers and fixed a range of different bugs. We became gymnasts in PE and after recapping our Year 2 skills we developed our cartwheel and handstand skills. In History we explored the Stone Age learning about their tools, animals and the settlement of Skara Brae. In Science we explore forces and magnets before finishing the topic making bottle magnet mazes. In Music we learnt a new song, wrote our own song and learnt the note A, B and C on the recorder. In French we learnt the names of 10 different animals. In PSHE we have been celebrating differences and in RE we have been exploring the differences between different religious celebrations and traditions.

Our best bits of Autumn 2 half term include creating our moving story books and walking to St. Mary’s Church to sing with our families and friends. We are really looking forward to continuing our recorder lessons in the Spring term and exploring new topics.

Autumn 1

Autumn 1 for Year 3 meant a transition to LKS2 and new routines. The children have impressed us with their resilience and hard work.  

Our English lessons have allowed us to explore some lovely picture books including The Paperbag Princess, Dr Xargle's book of Earth Hounds and Mini Rabbit Not Lost whilst our end of day whole class reading has taught us how to grow dragons. In Maths, we have worked at the children's pace to explore place value, counting on and back in 1s, 10s and 100s. 

In Art lessons the children have explored different media when creating self-portraits and portraits. During RE lessons, we have learnt about symbolic expressions and explored the similarities and differences between the major religions. PE lessons have allowed us to learn new skills in Tri Golf as well as building on our Hockey Skills with the Sporting Kids coaches. Geography lessons have allowed us to explore Europe and our French lessons have allowed us to learn greetings, colours and numbers in French. In Music lessons we have explored pentatonic ostinatos, making music with cups and a range of instruments whilst learning I've Been to Harlem. Computing lessons have allowed us to retell a joke through animation on Scratch. Do you know "What time an astronaut eats?" .... "Launch time!". PSHE lessons have allowed us to celebrate being me in my world and Science lessons have allowed us to learn more about animals and our bodies as we learnt about skeletons and muscles.

Can you spot your children or their work on our class displays? We chose to celebrate our trip to London Wetlands with our Autumn displays. 

We have thoroughly enjoyed Autumn 1 especially being able to invite you all in to share photos from our trip, to share our Harvest assembly and to share your children's reports at parent's evening. We look forward to Autumn 2 and the experiences it brings.