Welcome to Year 3 and Team Amber 2025/2026

Your teachers are Mrs Bollen and Mrs Bonner

Your teaching assistants are Miss Greatbatch, Mrs Angela and Mr Dakin

Another busy week in Team Amber! 

In English this week, we have written our own Adventure Stories based on the adventures of Winnie the Pooh. We are all very proud of our achievements.

Next week, we will be starting our new topic, focusing on the book ‘Incredible Jobs.’ We can’t wait to find out what sort of strange jobs there are in the world.

In Maths this week we have been learning about column subtraction. Did you know that the vocabulary we use when explaining subtraction is Minuend subtract the subtrahend equals the difference? Just in case you didn’t, we will explain that this means 45(minuend) – 14(subtrahend) equals 31(difference).

As Musicians, we have been learning to sing a lovely song called ‘Imagination.’ We are hoping to combine our singing with playing the tune on our glockenspiels in the coming weeks.

In RE, we learnt more about Ramadan, how it works, what it includes, and how Muslims participate in it. We watched a video on what Ramadan is, and then watched the story of Abdullah during Ramadan. We discussed the story and how the characters behaved. Lastly, we completed a story board on the story of Abdullah.

We all loved science this week, observing different types of rocks through a looking glass to help us describe the properties and identify each. We also learnt the there are 3 different types of rock:

Igneous - Formed from magma or lava from volcanoes cools and solidifies. It may do this above or below the earth’s surface. Sedimentary - eroded rocks are transported by streams and rivers to the ocean. The sediments compact together in layers, which then creates sedimentary rocks. Examples are chalk, limestone and sandstone. Metamorphic - these rocks were once igneous or sedimentary rocks. They form when they are exposed to heat and pressure deep within the Earth’s surface. Examples include marble and slate.

It looks as though the weekend is going to be a lovely, sunny one, so have fun everyone. We look forward to seeing you all 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…)

Well done to our Weekly & Termly Award Winners!

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers 

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our Half Term Challenge Readers!!

Brianna  Mithula Charlotte	Connor James Mollie Imogen Arlo