Welcome to Year 3 and Team Amber 2024/2025!

Your teachers are Mrs Bollen and Miss Thornton

Your teaching assistants are Miss Greatbatch, Miss Richards and Mrs O'Shea

Welcome back everyone. We hope you had a super Easter break and managed to eat an Easter egg or two. 

You will be pleased to hear that Year 3 have enjoyed their first week back, and have been working hard. 

In Mathematics lessons this week, we have been practising our four times tables, making links and looking for patterns. We will continue to work on our times tables next week, with a focus on the 8s.

In English this week we have started our new book, 'Incredible Jobs You've Probably Never Heard Of.'

We are loving it! You won't believe the jobs that some people do!

Our aim is to create a non-chronological report at the end of this unit. Next week, we will begin planning our reports. 

In Science we have started our new topic, Rocks and Soils. We have been looking at the properties of several different rocks, including marble, stone, flint, limestone, sandstone, chalk and granite. We then compared the rocks and grouped them, using a Venn Diagram.

In RE this week, we discussed the 5 Pillars of Islam, remembering our previous learning on them and why they hold importance to Muslims. Today, we focused on the Pillar Sawm which represents fasting. We learnt about what Ramadan is and why Muslims fast and how this is important in order for them to be able to feel close to God. We learnt about who is exempt from fasting in Ramadan and what their role is during Ramadan in order for them to be able to feel close to God in this time. Lastly, we thought about Muslims values in relation to fasting and related these to our own values in what we do in order to feel close to God.

In PSHE this week we discussed the roles and responsibilities of family members and reflected on the expectations for males and females. We then took part in an activity where, in groups, we were given a number of roles and asked ‘whose responsibility’ each one would be. It was up to us to decided which job was more suited to each person and why. After this we compared notes and as a whole class discussed why we had matched particular role to either men or women. 

Spring Term Optional Home Learning

This half term our topic is The Romans. If you would like to, we are setting an optional homework linked to our topic. This project involves you researching a topic and presenting it as a fact sheet, poster or anything your imagination can think of.

Topics to choose from are:

Roman Religion (Gods and myths)

Roman Sports and Leisure (Gladiators, competitions, etc…)

Roman Towns (Houses, town planning, etc…)

Roman Homes (Mosaics, food etc…)

Roman Army (Soldiers, road building, etc…)

This will be due in on Friday 29^nd March 2025

Websites you could use –

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwmpfg8

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/ancient-Rome/353728

Weekly Home Learning

Times Table Rock Stars and Spellings each day

Reading (5 times per week or 7 times for the challenge)