Throughout this half term, we have enjoyed reading lots of different adventure stories and thinking about how the authors build a sense of danger and excitement for the reader. The children collected words and phrases and used images and video clips to inspire them to create their own stories. They…

As we welcomed all of the children back to school, we started by sharing a lovely story called The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright. This is the story of a shy little mouse who sets out on a journey to find his roar and discovers that even the smallest creature can have the heart of a lion. The message…

As part of our unit of work on poetry this week, the children in Y3 read 'The Magic Box' by Kit Wright (you can watch Kit Wright read the poem at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zkpmhyc). They then used their imagination to think of things…

This term, the children in Year 3 have been learning about what it means to be a Rights Respecting School, with a particular focus on the right to an education (Articles 28 & 29), the right to play (Article 31), the right to be safe (Articles 19 & 24) and the right to be respected (Articles 12, 14…

Well done to all Year 3s for your hard work in your first term in the Junior school.

To finish off our art topic on trees, we made 3D trees this week out of brown paper bags. We used our observations of the shapes and textures of winter trees to cut and twist the paper into shape. We then used tissue paper to cover the ground and added some glitter to make them sparkle. We are proud…

We have been thinking about multiplication and division structures this week. We started with the problem of sharing 12 sweets between two people (partitive division). We drew pictures to show how we did this, for example: We compared this with division as grouping (quotitive division), for example,…

We are starting a new history topic in Year 3 this week. Here is the start of a new display.Can you guess what the topic is going to be about?

As promised, here are some pictures of the wonderful self portraits the children have been creating using oil pastels. Can you recognise anyone? Over the summer, we bought lots of new reading books for our Y3 book corners and the classrooms had some new bookshelves/boxes too. We want to encourage a love…

Thank you for continuing to email us with some of the things you are doing at home. We always enjoy looking at the things you send and reading what the children have written. Here are some more things that have been shared with us recently. This family entertained us with an amazing video of them performing…