Welcome to the Year Three Page where you will find out about the great things taking place in our classes.
We will update this page on a regular basis with information about our learning.
Please see parent information powerpoint for further information.
If you would like to contact us, please email secretary@wadebridgeprimary.co.uk and your email will be forwarded to us.
Home Learning: Daily reading, Times tables, optional wider curriculum activities (The home learning grid is available at the bottom of the page).
Changing Reading Books: Friday
PE Days: Monday (Swimming Thursdays 28/9-2/11)
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RE in Year 3
This half term we have been studying Christianity and in particular Holy Week.
We have learnt about the days that led up to Easter Sunday and how Christians celebrate Easter.
In small groups the children designed and created their own 3D models of Palm Tuesday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
I am sure you will agree that they look fab! Well done Year 3!
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On Wednesday 20th March Year 3 will be having our historical wow day. On the day the children will undertake a range of activities from the Roman period including: cooking, art and problem solving.
If the children would like to dress up on this day they are very welcome to. If they are dressing up they can choose to dress as a Roman or a Celt, if not dressing up the children should wear their school uniform. For costume ideas please see the photos.
The following week we will be sharing our learning at a Year 3 assembly. It will be 9:00am on Wednesday 27th March. Parents are welcome to come and join us for the assembly if they would like to.
For further information please see the note sent home last week or speak to the teachers.
Year 3 have had a busy start to Spring Term 2 - but what fun we have had!
3W welcomed Mrs Stephenson and Mrs Smerdon. Mrs Stephenson will be working on a Mon and Tuesday and Mrs Smerdon will be in class on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
They are looking forward to getting to know the children and meeting parents later in the term.
We have had an Art focus this week in our Wider Curriculum lessons around the topic of the Stone Age. The children spent time studying some Cave Art images before having a go and recreating them in sketch books focusing on colour, tone and use of space. We then tea stained pieces of Art paper before adding our Cave Art designs to them. I am sure you will agree that they look fantastic!
Next week we will have a History focus based around the Romans.
Upcoming Dates
St
Piran’s day - Tuesday
5th March Non-uniform black, white, gold.
World
Book Day –
Thursday 7th March ‘Bedtime Stories’ theme. Pjs , teddy and
favourite book.
Comic
Relief – WB 11th
March
Bake off! Kids to bring in bake off entries on Monday (with list of ingredients) Bake sale
On Tuesday 6th February it was Safer Internet Day.
This is a worldwide event which raises the children's awareness of staying safe whilst using technology.
The Year 3 children have learnt a lot about staying safe online by accessing information, playing games and creating posters.
Earlier in the term, 3B shared some of the SMART rules in assembly.
For further advice on how to keep your children safe online have a look at the latest SCOMIS newsletter by clicking the download below.
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English this half term is all about Roald Dahl. Throughout this learning journey the children will explore texts written by Roald Dahl with the eventual aim being a piece of writing in the style of the Dahl. Across the learning journey, children will have the opportunity to make predictions using adverbs, identify key features of a Dahl text and compare Dahl’s writing to that of other children’s authors. The children will have lots of opportunities to showcase their literary creativity through tasks such as; adding speech to James and the Giant Peach characters, inventing dreams in the style found in the BFG and by writing additional paragraphs to Roald Dahls original work.
In Maths, we have started part 2 of our multiplication and division learning journey. This term we will cover multiplying 2 digit by 1 numbers with and without exchanging by using partitioning, multiples of 10 and related calculations. Following multiplication, the children will take on dividing 2-digit numbers by 1 using portioning into 10’s and 1’s and sharing into equal groups. Children will use part-whole models and place value counters to represent the calculations and support their understanding. It is important that children divide the tens first and then the ones.
‘Did the Age of Stone pave the path to Rome?’ is the enquiry question for the new wider curriculum journey. Throughout the learning journey children will be asked to ‘think like historians’ to understand what, why, when, who and how things took place millennia ago. The children will be get to handle Roman Artefacts, order timelines, investigate what people ate and design and make a device which uses leavers and pulleys the same way our ancestors did.
Year 3 have been learning about famous artists who have painted waves. This has been a fascinating part of our enquiry question as we have learnt about Maggi Hambling and Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
We applied our new learning about artistic techniques in brusho and pastel to create the wonderful pieces you see here in photos.
Year 3 had a fantastic trip to Pentire.
We had a geological walk around the headland looking at a variety of rocks.
After lunch we completed some beach school activities.
English this half term is all about Roald Dahl. Throughout this learning journey the children will explore texts written by Roald Dahl with the eventual aim being a piece of writing in the style of the Dahl. Across the learning journey, children will have the opportunity to make predictions using adverbs, identify key features of a Dahl text and compare Dahl’s writing to that of other children’s authors. The children will have lots of opportunities to showcase their literary creativity through tasks such as; adding speech to James and the Giant Peach characters, inventing dreams in the style found in the BFG and by writing additional paragraphs to Roald Dahls original work.
In Maths, we have started part 2 of our multiplication and division learning journey. This term we will cover multiplying 2 digit by 1 numbers with and without exchanging by using partitioning, multiples of 10 and related calculations. Following multiplication, the children will take on dividing 2-digit numbers by 1 using portioning into 10’s and 1’s and sharing into equal groups. Children will use part-whole models and place value counters to represent the calculations and support their understanding. It is important that children divide the tens first and then the ones.
‘Did the Age of Stone pave the path to Rome’ is the topic title for the new wider curriculum journey. Throughout the learning journey children will be asked to ‘think like historians’ to understand what, why, when, who and how things took place millennia ago. The children will be get to handle Roman Artefacts, order timelines, investigate what people ate and design and make a device which uses leavers and pulleys the same way our ancestors did.
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