Year 3

Spring Term - Literacy

Our literacy learning for this term, we began with a morning spent eating toast! This was our introduction to our focus text, “Until I Met Dudley” by Roger McGough.  This imaginative and engaging text provides both fantastical and real explanations of how everyday household appliances work.  We revisited the four main sentence types as well as learning to use causal conjunctions to write high quality sentences to explain how things work.  We also learnt how to identify and use prepositions to provide more precise explanations in our writing.  The final outcome was a written explanation of how a rubbish truck works.

In our consolidation weeks, we watched a selection of 'Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions' videos.  We really enjoyed these humorous videos! We added punctuation and speech marks to the text from the videos. 

Spring Term -Maths 

Our maths learning this term has involved some revisiting of autumn term topics place value, multiplication and division.  However, we went further with our learning to consider different ways that multiplication and division can be represented using the eight times table and lots of jellybeans!  We then started a unit of work about fractions and for this we used playdough to represent a “whole” which we divided up into different numbers of “parts”.  This will help strengthen our understanding of the concept of fractions as we continue our learning.

Autumn Term -Literacy 

This term in literacy we spent the first few weeks revisiting prior learning from Year 2. This has included investigating and using, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and understanding and developing sentence structures using appropriate punctuation. The rest of the term has been spent looking at the text 'Into the Forest' by Antony Brown, which we have all thoroughly enjoyed. The book has allowed us to develop our creative writing and we have all written an exciting story opener / setting description.  We also learnt about how playscripts are written and had a go at writing our own. 

We are now reading Rabbit and Bear - Rabbit's Bad habits.  We are learning to write a non chronological report or information text.  We have been reading some examples to help us understand the features of this text type.  

Autumn Term - Maths 

Our maths learning this term has been very exciting! Our main focus has been on Place Value and Addition and Subtraction. We have revisited the use of equipment and even used Cheerios and marshmallows to demonstrate our understanding of the value of digits in a 3 digit number. We continue to practice our times tables and have enjoyed using TT Rockstars. 

Autumn Term - Science 

In science this term we have been learning about rocks and fossils. We have thoroughly enjoyed identifying different types of rocks and labelling them appropriately. To aid our learning and ensure we could remember, we created our own actions for the rock cycle, which was great fun! We even learnt about rocks we would find in and around Guernsey. 

To finish the topic we learnt about fossils, specifically the difference between trace and body fossils. We even had a go at creating and drawing our own. 

We have also learned some human biology.  We can name organs in the body and have learned about the function of our skeleton and muscles.

Autumn Term - Other Curriculum Areas 

History- We are currently learning about The Stone Ages, which is incredibly interesting. We have been so surprised at how people first lived and survived and are very much looking forward to continuing this history unit. 

Geography - We learnt about the four Cardinal Points and also the Inter-Cardinal Points. We found out that 'cardinal' means 'essential' and 'inter-cardinal' means 'between essential.' In outdoor learning, we used natural objects to create a mandala of the compass points. We then worked collaboratively, using a compass to draw our own on the playground. 

Music - We have had an exciting opportunity to learn to play the, "Dood" through the music service.  3MJ performed in their first concert before half term and now it's 3DC's turn to learn to play.  When we haven't been playing the Dood, we have been listening and responding to ballads.

Outdoor Learning - We had fun playing with nature's helicopter - the sycamore seed!  We then made our own paper versions to see if we could match nature's engineering.

ICT - We learnt about what a network is and how each part of the network links together.