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Year 3 News

Year 3 are excited to share with you some of the wonderful learning they have been doing this term. Click on the posts below to find out more...

March 2024

  • Fractions

    Published 19/03/24

    Over the past two weeks, the year 3 children have been working with fractions. In the photo, you can see them building a fraction wall as they begin to understand equivalent fractions. In English we have been focusing on imagery in poetry and the children have written some wonderful metaphors. In science  we have been using magnets and in geography, we have been learning about the River Nile.

    We are all looking forward to performing in our assembly next Tuesday morning. We hope to see the year 3 parents there at approximately 9am. 

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  • Editing our work

    Published 06/03/24

    While we have been writing limericks, we have been learning how to edit our work. This is an important but difficult skill to master. We set up editing stations around the classroom where the children can check their writing for errors and find opportunities for improvement. To learn the skill, we have begun with the children editing adult work which has deliberate errors. In science, we have been investigating magnets this week and we can now explain that magnets have a north and south pole and that the opposite poles attract.

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March 2024