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Year 3 News

On this page you will find all the News from Years 3.

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  • Year 3: How did you build your Stonehenge this week?

    Published 02/10/24

    This week we have loved continuing our history topic about the Stone Age. We looked at Stonehenge and considered how it might have been built and why. We then had a go at using biscuits to create our own versions in groups - it was a very tasty history lesson! 

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  • Year 3: Why is Guru Gobind Singh important?

    Published 25/09/24

    This week in Year 3 we have worked hard to continue our English and Maths learning - we are getting ready for our first independent star write in the next few weeks! We have enjoyed our work on fossils and rocks and seeing what we can learn from them and how they are made.

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  • Year 3: How are rocks formed?

    Published 18/09/24

    This week in Year 3 we have enjoyed learning about the different ways rocks are formed. We have also worked hard in our place value unit in Maths and are ready to move onto our addition and subtract unit! Having read our story of Cave Baby, we have started to generate vocabulary to use when we retell the story in a few weeks.

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  • Year 3: When was the Stone Age?

    Published 11/09/24

    This week in Year 3 we have been excited to start all our new topics! Stone Age for History, Rocks for Science and Sikhism for R.E. We especially enjoyed making a human timeline on the playground for history and noticing just how long ago the Stone Age was!

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  • What have you enjoyed the most your first week in Year 3?

    Published 04/09/24

    We have had a really enjoyable week getting to know all the children in Year 3. They have come back from the summer break so focused and ready to learn, which is wonderful! We have enjoyed thinking about how to be resilient and how we can use this skill throughout the year to face all the new challenges of the year group.

    Also attached in advance of the meeting are the slides for the 'Welcome to Year 3' parent meeting.

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  • What was your most memorable part of our History and Geography study this year?

    Published 19/07/24

    Well it was a busy week for Year 3 in the lead up to the big finish, with plenty of learning building on our knowledge of time in Maths, writing letters and beautifully descriptive writing pieces for our next Year 4 teachers as well as creating amazing double page spreads showing all that we have learnt in Geography and History over the year. We have just about coped in the heat as well!

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  • Year 3: What did you enjoy about skipping this week?

    Published 11/07/24

    This week we have been fortunate enough to have a skipping workshop which was great fun! Our trip to Sutton High Street was useful and we were able to really unpick the different shops and land usage that we saw. Finally, Sports Day to end the week was great and the children all worked really hard.

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  • Year 3: What songs did you enjoy in the Year 6 production?

    Published 04/07/24

    Another busy week in Year 3 as we continued with our Science topic about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We had a discussion in class as to whether recycling or reusing is best for the environment and the children came up with some lovely ideas! We were also fortunate enough to watch the Year 6 performance - an amazing show with lots of fun songs and characters that I know the children all enjoyed. They all also met their new teachers this week and have started to feel inspired by their new exciting topics!

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  • Year 3: What surprised you most about how much water people use?

    Published 27/06/24

    This week Year 3 enjoyed their personal bests challenges! We were very proud of how hard everyone worked and how supportive each team was for each other. Our new book, 'Dear Earth' has really inspired us to start thinking about how beautiful our planet truly is and how humans are starting to change it! 

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  • Year 3: What makes a good team?

    Published 20/06/24

    This week in Year 3 we have been completing our termly booklets and everyone has worked so hard to demonstrate all the fantastic learning and progress that they have made this week. The children have continued looking at 3D structures in Art, starting to consider the shapes that we can see in a structure and how we might be able to make this. 

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  • Year 3: What are horizontal and vertical lines?

    Published 13/06/24

    This week the children have started to learn about our local area and the borough of Sutton, many of us were shocked at just how large a population it has. Every week the children have been taking part in their Spanish lessons and it is amazing to hear how confident they now are in talking about their likes and dislikes as well as when their birthday's are! We started an experiment in Science about which recycled materials make the best plant pots and are eagerly waiting to see our plants grow.

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  • Year 3: How did you make your 2D cardboard shapes stand up?

    Published 06/06/24

    What a brilliant start to the new half term! Year 3 have all come back focused and ready to learn for our final half term. We have started a new writing unit where we will be looking at writing a biography about William Kamkwamba; the children have been amazed at his resilience and determination. Our new Art unit on 3D sculptures interested everyone and we had a great discussion about whether Robert Morris's installation Bodyspacemotionthings at the Tate Modern counted as Art!

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