What a fantastic first two weeks we have had in Year 3. The children have made an excellent transition into KS2 demonstrating great enthusiasm and Ivy Lane behaviour.
We have got stuck into our new enquiry and have had great fun exploring forces through friction and magnets, the children have been showing us what super scientists they are! In writing we have been stretching sentences and learning all about the 7 steps to speech, ask your young learner if they can recall what they all are! In maths we have been recapping place value and securing our knowledge of tens and ones.
Well done to all of Year 3 for a super return to school, we look forward to lots more exciting learning over the course of the year!
The Year 3 Team

In Y3 this week we have been working hard at becoming experts in column addition and subtraction in maths.
We have also been putting together our design ideas for our end project in Enquiry making a magnetic board game.
We have finished our Nail Soup writing unit with fantastic stories of our own and we have been looking at fairy tales in guided reading.

We celebrated European Day of Languages across the school this month. Thank you to Mr Fraga & Ms Taylor who visited Cowell class sharing lots of facts about Mexico.
It has been a busy and exciting learning time for us all!
Mrs Hugo, Mrs Horan, Miss Vernon and Mrs Tetlow
The Year 3 Team

Well, it's been a great start to Term 2 for Year 3! We have started our new enquiry 'Where does darkness come from', it links brilliantly with the Hindu festival of Diwali. Great fun was had learning about this festival and how the lamps guided Rama and Sita home. We enjoyed making our own lamps out of salt dough and are looking forward to decorating them next week.

Great progress has been made in maths where we have been developing our knowledge of multiplication and division, learning and exploring the different methods we can use to solve calculations. The children have learned how much easier these calculations can be if they know their times tables, keep going with the practise at home, it makes such a difference!

In writing we are continuing to look at how to write a non-chronological report and will have a go at innovating our class text next week. Our reading text 'The Twits' has been great to read but we have all decided that we are glad that they are fictional characters - they are really not very nice and probably quite smelly!

We are looking forward to our museum trip and swimming next term, please do let the class teachers know if you are able to support us with these trips.

Year 3 Team