Wow! What an amazing and inspirational couple of days working in partnership with SKIP 2B FIT.
All children in our school showed amazing resilience and growth mindset towards improving their own personal bests. We all really enjoyed the motivational competitions between staff and children. Mr Rickett and Mathias are currently our skipping champions – we are looking forward to see if anyone can beat their scores in the future.
This week in Year 3, we have started looking at mythical creatures from Ancient Greek myths and stories. We have began with Medusa, a hideous, snake headed gorgon! The children had great fun creating their own Medusa head bands and wearing them whilst writing this week.
Year 3 have been working on practicing using written methods to solve four questions every day. They are given an addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This close the gap work is completed in the children’s maths books and each child has a grow sheet to track their progress each day. Importantly, they MUST show their working out – something they have not consistently been doing. This helps eliminate minor errors and is a skill required in later years for SATs and GCSE’s as marks are given for showing working out not just the final answer.
Examples of questions:
520cm + 193cm =
342 – 139 =
5 x ____ = 40
27 9 =
How you can help your child at home…
Spend 10 -15 mins creating similar style questions and supporting your child to answer these 3-4 times a a week. Short, focused and regular practice will improve your child’s overall skills.
Any questions, please talk to a member of the year 3 team.
Year 3 have begun learning about the Ancient Greeks. As part of our Ignite day the children took part in a Greek dress up day and participated in a variety of activities, such as creating Greek temples, playing Greek games and learning the Greek myth Pandora’s Box to ignite our learning. 
In our maths lessons we have been exploring methods to solve multiplication problems. We had lots of fun creating arrays to work out our questions.
Homework for this week
Happy New Year from all of the Year 3 team!
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break. Thank you for all of your support last term and for supporting your children to produce wonderful project homework over such a busy two weeks off!
Below is the link to this weeks homework. We are focusing on time and recapping what the children learnt in year 2.
There are 2 pages.
Page 1 is less challenging and just covers what was learnt in year 2.
Page 2 challenges the children to problem solve and read the time in a range of intervals.
This is the Year 3 homework for the October half term.
We would like the children to research disaster proof houses, ready for the next step in our learning journey.
Have a great break everyone!
The Year 3 team.
We have had a number of children in 3C who have been working hard to achieve their balance ribbons by being role models across the year group! Well done! Keep it up 🙂 
3C had fun this afternoon finishing off our Natural Disasters project by investigation soils. They have learnt about the effect of water on soil and how this can lead to flooding. Luckily, they are all cleaned up now!
Class 3b were looking fantastic on Thursday in their World Book Day costumes! Thank you to all the parents and carers for helping your children dress up and to those of you who were able to come in and read with us!
Lots of creativity, reading and great book discussions took place and it was lovely to see all of the children getting very excited about reading! In the afternoon we made dream catchers inspired by The BFG – Roald Dahl. These aren’t quite finished so we will be sharing these with you soon!
Well done 3b!
Yesterday afternoon to celebrate World Book Day year 3 got the chance to make a dream jar with water colour paints. The results were brilliant and will be displayed in our book corners.
