We have had a busy time this week practicing our Christmas play which is starting to look really good! The children have worked so hard to learn their lines and are singing beautifully – we are very proud of them. Last week for our topic, Mr Silvester came into class and demonstrated how Stone Age … Read more
This week in maths, we are consolidating what we have been doing with column subtraction and answering missing number questions. We are thinking about estimating our answers first and checking for mistakes using an inverse sum. In English we finished our planning and wrote our recount of our class trip to the Earth Trust. We … Read more
We had a brilliant start to the week with our class trip to the Earth Trust. We were lucky enough to visit during the archaeological dig and got to see this in action and speak to one of the archaeologists. The children also then took part in artefact handling, den building, making fire and making … Read more
In English this week we have been looking at different examples of diary entries. We found the key features and then planned our own diary entry as the main character from the book, Stone Age Boy. We have now started to write them and get feedback and are working hard to meet our next writing … Read more
Year 3 Geographers went to Wallingford first thing on Monday morning. We spotted geographical features during our walk e.g. roads, the River Thames and the Wallingford Bridge. Once in the centre of Wallingford, a group of us spoke with local people to find out what the purpose of their visit was for. Other groups looked … Read more
The children have been busy writing some lovely stories based on the book ‘Journey’ and are excited for you to see these at parents evening. We are now moving towards writing a newspaper report so have started to look at some examples of this style of writing and picked out the key features. We will … Read more
In our English we have been learning about how to write speech correctly and how to include conjunctions in our writing. We are going to start to plan a story, working towards what the story based on our class book ‘Journey’. We have tested the children on key spellings and they will be coming home … Read more
Class 3 have had a great start to the year and have settled in well and been working hard! In maths we are practicing our number bonds to 10, 20 and 100 and have been looking at place value in 3 digit numbers thinking carefully about what each digit represents. Try asking your child to … Read more
This week we have been writing beast descriptions, to include in our myth writing. In Maths, we have been finding fractions of a number. Tricky stuff, but I think we’ve cracked it! See if yours can do 3/5 of 20! We have created Egyptian collages in History, and been doing some more gardening this afternoon. … Read more
This week we have been writing our own versions of the Ancient Egyptian creation myth, in English, and learning to find fractions of a number, in Maths. In History, we have been learning about hieroglyphics, and have all written our own names, in a cartouche. If anyone has any Egyptian artefacts that they would like to … Read more
