Year 3 Hub

This week in Year 3: 

Spring has sprung!

In English, we have continued our new class books Big Blue Whale and This Morning I Met a Whale. With our focus on sentence types, the children have been writing factual paragraphs using exclamation sentences. We have also been looking at comprehension style texts and questions as this is a key skill to have in KS2.

In Maths, we have been continuing our topic of Fractions and have been looking at fractions using a number line and a scale and we have started to notice that some fractions represent the same thing.  Using pizzas as an example, the children can now recognise and compare the different fractions by size.

Our highlight this week has been a fantastic school trip to Kew Gardens on Tuesday.

The perfect weather and wonderful behaviour from all the children made this trip an absolute delight for both the members of staff and the parent helpers who very kindly accompanied us.  As well as visiting key areas of the Gardens such as the Palm House, the Hive and the Princess Of Wales Conservatory, the pupils took part in a Rainforest workshop where they learnt about what plants would be useful to use if they ever found themselves stranded in a rainforest.  Our workshop leader Michelle was fascinating and the pupils enjoyed learning about the Toothbrush Plant and what uses a papaya has.  We finished off the day with a visit to the Marianne North Art Gallery which the pupils really enjoyed and finally (just in case we hadn't done enough steps for the day, we braved the Treetop Walkway before heading back to school.  My pedometer read 14,000+ steps so we were all very tired from a wonderful day out. Please enjoy these pictures from our fabulous day.

A couple of small notes:

- There will be a parent Drop In next Wednesday 26th March from 8:45-9:15 where the pupils will have the opportunity to share their books and their work with you.

- It's Year 3's assembly next Thursday 27th March! We hope you will be able to join us. We've sent a Parent Mail asking if the children can come in wearing a black top (navy would also be ok).

Kew Gardens March 2025

 

 

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Notices:

PE days: 

Indoor: Monday - Dance

Outdoor: Friday - Dodgeball

PE uniform must be worn to school on these days. 

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Routines:

• The school day starts promptly in class at 8.55 am. Please use the soft start from 8.45 am to ensure your child is on time. 
• Year 3 have a library book-changing slot on a Wednesday afternoon. Normal reading books can be changed any day.
• The children are able to bring in healthy snacks for break time.

Home learning:

Every Thursday, the children will be set home learning, see below. Most home learning will need to be completed in home learning books. 

Home learning should be handed in on the following Monday to allow time for it to be checked and returned before new tasks are set.

If children are struggling with homework, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Remember to bring back reading journals with a comment or signature on Thursday. 

English

Please read the comprehension text below about Plants and answer the questions in your English Homework book.

Spellings this week : Spring 2 Week 4

Please practise and learn the spellings below for next Thursday.

league

plague

rogue

vague

fatigue

unique

antique

mosque

cheque

technique

Maths 

Please complete the fractions sheet below.

 

Every Monday, we will be practising our times tables during our Arithmetic morning session. 

Children may also practise their times tables using the link below or TTRS.

Children can practise for their Times Table Check using this link. Follow the link below to Times Tables Rock Stars. Once logged in, children should click on 'Garage' and complete the 'Heatmap' games. 

Children's login and passwords can be found stuck in at the front of Reading journals. 

 Link to Times Tables Rock Stars.  

 

 

  Next week's Learning: 

Maths: We will be finishing our block on Fractions 

English: We are going to be continuing our class books Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies and This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo researching information and facts for our Big Write.