I want to say well done to all of Year 3 for a brilliant start to the year!
I hope you all have a fantastic and relaxing half term break.
Congratulations to the first member of year 3 to go up on “The Wall of Stars,” due to collecting the most raffle tickets over the past seven weeks!
What a busy half term. Year 3 have done incredibly well settling into Key Stage 2 and should be very proud of themselves!
To finish our history learning about Ancient Greece, we made some pottery inspired by the Ancient Greeks. The children did a great job at sculpting their clay to construct their own pot.
We also had a debate about the better city state. The children had to decide if they would rather be a citizen in the forward-thinking, artistic state Athens or the warrior state Sparta! We joined with Year 4 and lots of children argued their points very well.
We have been learning about the history of democracy, which we know originated in Athens and was a new style of government. This linked with our Living and Learning statement this week:
“I can take part in democratic decisions.”
We put this to practice during our annual Junior Leadership Team election. The children thought about who would make a good representative for Year 3 and voted for their choice.
The new JLT will be announced during collective worship tomorrow!
Why not ask your child what they enjoyed learning about in our history lessons this half term? Some of the key vocabulary we learnt included:
. chronological order
. golden age
. periods of time
. democracy
. citizens
We will be learning about adding the suffixes ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ to a root word:
– answer/ answered/answering
– arrive/ arrived/arriving
– call/ called/ calling
– think/ thought/ thinking
– smile/ smiled/ smiling
We have been enjoying our sessions to develop our love of reading in class. This happens through our weekly ‘book club’ sessions and on Friday mornings, where we visit the school library. The children have access to fiction books which can be taken home and non-fiction, which are good to ‘dip’ into during short reading sessions.
The children have been sharing their favourite books and discussing their preferences when choosing books.
I’ve loved seeing the comments about home reading in Year 3’s reading records. 
Please make sure you leave a short comment when reading with your child.
Year 3 made me so proud at our Harvest Festival service on Thursday.
We sang some hymns and shared prayers and ideas about why it is important to make sure food is shared out fairly. The children agreed that we should only take what we need.
The children who read our poem did so beautifully and I was so impressed by how many children wanted to read. I wish I could have chosen everyone!
(click the link below to watch)
A big thank you to everyone who donated and those who came to support.
Next week, we will practice dropping the y and adding i when we change the root word and add a suffix.
cry/ cried/ crying
carry/ carried/carrying
copy/copied/copying
worry/ worried/worrying
happen/happened/ happening
Just a reminder to practice our times tables as often as possible. We have a weekly focus, this week it will be 2s,5s and 10s.
TT Rockstars is a really fun way of doing this! I have set the year 3 pupils accounts to our weekly times tables focus, so it will be easier to access.
Your child’s login will be stuck inside their reading record. If you need this again please just ask!
Next week, we will be focusing on double consonant words:
– appear
– different
– shop/ed/ing
– trapped
– happening
– opposite
– arrive
Next week, we are focusing on the ee/ea grapheme.
believe
read
complete
appear
money
people
busy
quickly
Next week, we will continue to learn words that contain the ‘ai’ sound. The children will be tested on the words below next Friday:
eight
favourite
tray
great
snake
brain
they
everyday