Our First Week

Welcome parents, carers, friends and family to our Year 3 blog. Our class has had a fantastic start to Key Stage 2 enjoying lots of new learning opportunities. 

Music

On Monday we met Mrs Furnell our specialist music teacher. We discovered that we have a very musical year group this year, as we worked on keeping a steady beat and holding a rhythm. This is all in preparation for when we start to learn the viola in a few weeks. 

Spanish

Another new lesson for Year 3! We started off our Spanish lessons by learning how to greet people in Spanish. I'm sure if you asked them, your child would be willing to give you a performance of the 'Hola' song we have all been practising. 

Maths

In maths this week, we have been really busy partitioning numbers, adding on and taking away 1 and 100 and solving other place value problems. We have also enjoyed using lots of maths equipment to represent numbers in a variety of ways. Don't forget to practise those multiplication tables at home to earn the gold, silver and bronze award stars. 

Over the next couple of weeks we will be progressing with our adding and subtraction strategies. You can find more information about the methods used in the classroom on the school website in the calculation guide. 

Literacy

There was much excitement this week with the launch of our new reading scheme Read to Succeed. Year 3 responded with much enthusiasm, with many children enjoying lots of reading time at home and gaining lots of stamps in their home school diary. 

Finally, a mysterious discovery occurred this Friday. An enormous egg was found in the wild area abandoned by a distant time traveller! Straight away Year 3 were struck with inspiration producing some fantastic descriptive writing and some monster themed artwork. The unusual find is currently resting safely in the classroom. We are all wondering if the egg will hatch...