They have particularly enjoyed learning about maps and different biomes, and have really impressed us with how much they have remembered and understood from this topic.

This week, we also enjoyed a visit to the local church to enhance our understanding of the Easter story. It was a valuable experience that helped bring their learning to life.

The children have worked especially hard on their Star Writes, where they retold Jack and the Jelly Beanstalk. We were delighted with their creativity, imagination, and writing skills.

We hope everyone has a wonderful and restful Easter holiday, and we look forward to welcoming them back next term.

We began by looking at groups of animals and foods, and the children worked together to think of questions that would help separate them. For example, they asked questions such as “Does it have four legs?” or “Is it a fruit?” This helped them understand how computers use similar systems to organise and find information quickly.

The children then created their own branching databases by choosing animals or foods and carefully planning a series of questions. They learnt that the questions need to be clear and precise so that each item can be sorted correctly. We also discussed how changing a question can affect the outcome, which led to some great problem-solving and teamwork.

Using this idea, the children designed and made their own kites from old plastic bags and took them outside to test how well they flew. To finish the week, the class created informative posters about the dangers of plastic in the ocean, encouraging others to recycle and help protect sea life.

Everyone also worked really hard on their Star Writes, creating informative leaflets about Ancient Egypt.  We look forward to sharing these with Year 1 after half term.

In English, we have been continuing our research on Ancient Egypt and looking and Tutankhamun's life and why he was famous.  We have also been learning more about the mummification process and have tried to sequence the instructions and explain them.  Next week we will be writing up the mummification process, so please ask your child if they remember the events.

In Forest School we were making flowers and created beautiful tulips!

In Forest School we learnt how to make kites and loved taking them outside to fly!

Although it has been a short week, we have been busy getting back into our routines.  We have been looking at features of non-chronological reports in English and practising solving addition and subtraction problems using the column method.  Please do practise this at home to help them reinforce the methods.

In Forest School, we researched how to build rafts out of straws and then build our own.  We were all very proud of our creations!

We are really proud with how well the children have done this term and the progress that they have made.  We hope that they all have a well-deserved break over the holidays and look forward to seeing them in January!

In addition to their writing, the children have been exploring nets in Design and Technology. They have investigated which nets are needed to create different 3D shapes, carefully considering how the pieces will fold and fit together. This work will help them next week when they will be constructing their own castles.

Orange Class were also excited to go on their trip to Pizza Express.  They learnt how to knead dough and about the ingredients needed to make a pizza.  They loved having them for lunch later that day.  Thank you to the parents for supporting us on the trip!

We went 'hunting for animals' in forest school and were fortunate enough to catch our lunch using spears!  (no animals were hurt, just a few popped balloons).  We then decorated stones, practised our potttery skills before making clay pots and then decorated our caves using paint and charcoal.  We hope the children all enjoyed it as much as we did!

On Wednesday, we also joined the BBC 500 words live lesson (Amber Class watched it later in the day) and enjoyed coming up with ideas and vocabulary for our stories.  We can't wait to hear their competition entries!

This week, we also had our first ukulele lesson with Heather.  The children were all really engaged and learnt about the different parts of the ukulele, how to pluck and how to strum.  We even managed to all join in playing the tune to a song.

We have had a fantastic week in Year 3 and have loved getting to know all the children.  The children have all impressed us with how well they have settled and how well they have bonded in each class. A highlight of the week was in History, where the children created a human timeline of events from the start of the Stone Age, to the Great Fire of London, to England's Women's Football team winning the Euros.

In Forest School, the children created some excellent boats which they were very proud of!