Amber

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

This half term in Team Amber, we have continued to develop our love of reading. We have enjoyed creating our very own Monster’s Guides as well as writing personal narratives inspired by ‘Jabari Jumps’, ‘Ralph Tells a Story’ and ‘The Proudest Blue.’

During our Mathematics lessons, we have immersed ourselves in fractions this half term. We have learnt about unit and non-unit fractions, how to compare, order, shade as well as understand how fractions can be used to describe shapes, sets and can be linked to measurements. We have ended the half term adding and subtracting fractions.

As Historians, we have been learning all about the Romans. We have learnt about the story of Boudicca and enjoyed learning about how Romans lived their lives. Also we really enjoyed our school trip to St Albans Verulamium, we learnt about Roman architecture visiting both the Roman Wall and the Hypocaust. We loved our market session in the museum, learning all about the differences between Celtic and Roman clothes and exploring the food, clothes, metal work and household objects that could be bought at Market. We then continued our learning on a museum tour.

In Science we have been learning about ‘Forces and Magnets’ learning about the North and South Pole of a magnet and exploring how they attract and repel objects and materials. We have also explored how pushes and pulls can affect the start and stop movement. We have learnt about friction, and how different surfaces affect the speed that an object moves.

During our Circus skills workshop, we took part in five fun forces activities as part of our Circus Skills Workshops. We were able to investigate how to balance clowns on a piece of string using pennies to affect their centre of gravity. We experimented with rockets applying our knowledge of push forces to compare and identify how we could be most successful. We all enjoyed making spinning tops to see what patterns were made when different twist forces were applied. We also bounced marbles using different sized tubs, seeing how gravity affected our ideas. Finally all of the children had the opportunity to reinforce their knowledge of magnetism, by using their magnetic fields to create floating and dancing magnets as well as predicting and identifying which materials were magnetic and non-magnetic.

In RE, we have been learning about the story of Easter as well as the traditions linked to Easter for Christians. In French, we have been learning about objects in a French classroom as well as beginning our journey into learning about masculine and feminine words.

Well done for all of your hard work this term Team Amber!

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: