Year 3
Welcome to Year 3!
The class teacher is Mrs Winsbury and the teaching assistant is Miss Weatherley.
Our learning this week - Autumn Term
This term, our theme is Pompeii. We'll be learning about the Roman period and how Pompeii's volcano explosion impacted the area. We're going to kick off with a few immersion days, in which we'll focus on some of the History context, as well as explore what it must have been like to be a Roman during this period. We're even going to get the chance to experience some real Roman artefacts on our school trip to the Verulamium Museum on the 17th Sep. As the term progresses, we'll move onto Geography, in which we'll investigate how volcanoes and earthquakes are formed. In Computing, we'll also get to make some digital volcano animation and in Science we're focusing on rocks and soils.
Maths
This week, we have been working out how to exchange across tens and hundreds. The children have been introduced to the column method and they've been practising working in small groups and using concrete resources to help them.
English
Each child has chosen their subject for the information leaflet and we've been exploring subheadings and researching facts for their write. If the children could do a bit of extra research over the weekend for their topic, that would be really helpful to them, as it can take time.
Big Picture: DT
We have begun their Italian Salad project! To begin with, the children learnt about grown, caught and reared foods. We then progressed onto evaluating existing Mediterranean salads, as well as learning how to use various equipment items such as grater, peeler, knife and scissors. They have now designed their salads which must contain a cooked element and at least two vegetables. We'll be making them next week...
Science
Today we tested various soil types to find out which was the most impermeable. We'll be continuing our investigations on this next week, too.
Each week the class will also be doing PE (Mon and Wed), RE, PSHE, French and Guided Reading, tying in with our topic theme, where possible.
Our value this term is generosity.