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 just completed our Fractions A module, working out how to identify equivalent fractions. We've also been doing some fluency activities to help consolidate our 3, 4 and 8 times tables.
English
We are working on writing a refugee narrative based on the book, The Journey by Francesca Sanna. The children have completed their refugee narrative independent write, and have now started to look at how the mother in the story would be feeling at certain parts of the story. This is a good immersion activity for when they write a diary entry for this character.
Design and Technology
The children have been tasked with designing an African wagon. As such, they've had the opportunity to research different types of vehicles and test out motor circuit components. Next week, they will get the opportunity to design their wagons and make them!
Science
Today we reviewed the purpose of skeletons. We did some carousel activities, allowing the children to investigate a pretend human skeleton and body parts model. We then discussed what the purpose of our bones were and how they fitted together. In pairs, they then got to create a spine using egg boxes and straws.
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.