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

What a lovely week we have had! Between the fantastic weather and our great activities, we have had a super time this week. 

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit yesterday from Electric Umbrella. Please do scroll down to see some of our amazing photos, which show many of us standing up in front of everyone and singing or speaking on our own. We really enjoyed the activities.

As you all know, today is red nose day. We have all enjoyed coming into school wearing either red, or clothes that make us happy. Thank you all for your kind donations.

In English this week, we have started our new book 'Monsters.' We are loving it! The pictures and the story are interesting and funny. We've had lots of interesting conversations about it, and enjoyed reading aloud in small groups. It was also fun identifying different monsters by their description. We also enjoyed reading different types of explanation texts. These helped us to develop our understanding of conjunctions, as we recorded facts that we found most interesting. 

We continue to develop our knowledge of fractions in maths. This week we have been learning about non-unit fractions. We have used lots of pictures to help us with our understanding of these. Next week, we will be learning about the equal and unequal parts in the part-whole relationship.

In RE this week, we started the lesson by working as a group to put picture cards of the Easter story in order, to see if we could remember the correct order from last week. We then discussed the meaning of the word 'tradition' and looked at some of the traditions that people keep at Easter. We discussed how we celebrate Easter, and if we do not celebrate Easter, we discussed how we have seen people celebrate in the past. Finally, we recorded our ideas and explained what we think each tradition means for Christians. 

In PSHE, we learnt about how to keep safe. We thought about situations and circumstances that might make us feel afraid, and what we could do to help ourselves in those situations. We also learnt how to call emergency assistance when needed and how to identify which emergency service we might need for different

situations.

In Geography we have been learning how to locate the cities of the UK. We have identified the location of the UK in the world and within Europe. We then discussed some of the differences of the four countries that make up the UK. Also we learnt how to use an atlas to identify the locations of cities, and compared them to the people of the late Iron Age Settlements. 

Have a great weekend everyone! See you on Monday.

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)