Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
The class teacher is Mrs Winsbury and the Teaching Assistants are Mrs Bower, Mrs Roy and Ms Tull.
Our learning this week - Spring Term
This term is going to be truly exciting as we explore the continent of Africa!
Maths
We have started our new topic, Mass and Capacity. To begin with, we used scales to work out how to identify grams and kilograms. The children got the opportunity to get hands-on with scales, measuring different types of classroom objects. We have progressed on to learning about how many gs are in a kg, and then interpreting different scales to work out their mass.
English
We are working on writing a refugee narrative based on the book, The Journey by Francesca Sanna. We are now imagining that we're one of the characters in the book, and each pupil needs to write a diary entry to match one of the scenes. The children have begun their independent writes, based on their plans.
Design and Technology
The children have been tasked with designing an African wagon. We've had a fun week working in small teams to assemble the electric motor circuits, then building their wagon frames. Next week we're going to test and evaluate them!
Science
Today we looked at what our muscles do, researching how our tendons, joints and ligaments help to support us and enable us to move.
Each week the class will also be doing PE (Wed and Thu), RE, PSHE, French and Guided Reading, tying in with our topic theme, where possible.