Year 3
Mrs Porter, Miss Robson, Mr Armstrong, Mrs Harbor, Mrs Crozier
Year 3 2023
Year Three (Y3) is the first of four years children spend in Key Stage Two (KS2).
They follow the Y3 or lower KS2 programmes of study from the Primary Curriculum published September 2014. Children are taught key subjects through specific units of work for example themes and projects such as Take One Picture, STAR WARS during STEM fortnight, Pandora and the Greeks.
Children can be taught by different teachers. For example, in Music, Spanish and PE they work with a number of specialist coaches in tennis and cricket.
They also have access to an exciting range of extra-curricular clubs such as Choir, Football and Dance.
For further information about Y3 please refer to Y3 Routines and Procedures and Curriculum Maps.
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Wednesday 24 April 2024 Year 3 - Clay! This week children have been looking at the work of Antony Gormley. Children looked at his installation of 'Field for the British Isles' (1993)
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Wednesday 27 March 2024 Stone Age Day Today was Stone Age Day in Year 3. We started the morning off in darkness and only allowed to whisper while we did cave paintings of Stone Age animals such as the Woolly Mammoth, Direwolf and the Gigantopithecus.
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Tuesday 5 March 2024 Y3 Handball This half term we’ve been learning the skills needed for Handball. We’ve been doing games that will help us practice bouncing, throwing and catching. We played a game of Sharks which involved trying to bounce a ball past the sharks who were trying to grab the ball from us. Some children quickly worked out that it is better for everyone to make a line to make it more difficult for people to get across. Others made tweaks and suggestions for the best way to defend.
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Monday 5 February 2024 Year 3 Day 1 - Drone Visitor! Today we had a visit from Jason, our visiting expert in the way of the force. He told us all about his work as a drone pilot. He showed us examples of drones from quadcopters to octocopters all the way to military drones. We listened to all the different uses of drones. Did you know that they even use drones to help put out fires! Then, best of all, Jason showed us how he pilots drones by making one fly in our school hall! Thank you Jason!
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Friday 19 January 2024 Bee Aware To start their Geography topic of Food and Farming, Year 3 were visited by a local beekeeper. They found out many facts about bees and were especially interested to hear that bees are extremely important for our survival. The children also got to see a range of beekeeping equipment up close, such as a smoker and part of a hive. Some lucky children even got to try on a full bee keeping suit!
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Wednesday 13 December 2023 Y3 Orienteering Over the past few weeks, children in Y3 have been having a go at Orienteering on the Sele which has shown incredible skill and teamwork spirit!
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Friday 17 November 2023 Rainforests of the world! This week in Geography, Children have been learning about the rainforest of the world. They’ve investigates the atlases to see if they could find the name of the different tropical rainforests. We looked at graphs of the average rainfall across the year to think about the climate. Rainforests are hot and wet all year round which makes them very humid.
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Thursday 26 October 2023 Year 3 - Our Art Studio We have had a fantastic time in the artists studio during Take One Picture.
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Thursday 12 October 2023 Scientists! This week Year 3 have completed a science enquiry experiment to finish off our topic on Light. We started off learning about artificial and natural light sources and how they differ from reflectors. Then Year 3 thought about what shadows were; the absence of light!
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Friday 6 October 2023 Poetry in Y3 This week in Year 3 we have been looking at poetry. We looks at the features of four different types of poetry. Lots of children preferred Limericks because they were funny.
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Thursday 5 October 2023 Y3 Movement Lab This week in the Movement Lab we’ve been playing a game of London’s Burning!
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Friday 29 September 2023 RE - The Bible Some children were asked to walk from one side of the room to the other while blindfolded and then were asked how they felt while doing this. Children were given ‘guides’ ( a partner) to help them and asked to repeat their walk.
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Friday 22 September 2023 Hot Air Balloons Inspired by Take One Picture, we have been reading the book Ocean meets Sky by the Fan Brothers. Within this book, there are lots of amazing and inspiring illustrations including hot air balloons! Here you can see the first part of our Year 3 project creating giant hot air balloons.
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Friday 15 September 2023 Looking at Egger This week in Y3 children have started their Geography topic on Egger: From Forest to Factory. We talked about how some people think it is a ‘cloud factory’ when in fact it is a manufacturing plant that makes chipboard. We looked at the ingredients that they use to create their chipboard and tried to sort them into their categories of recycled materials, hackwood and sawdust.
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Friday 8 September 2023 Art - Take One Picture This week we have been looking at our Take One Picture painting by Ludolf Bakhuizen.