Hobletts Manor Junior School
Azure
Welcome to Year 3 and Team Azure 2024/25
Your teacher is Ms Dyer
Your teaching assistants are Ms Allwork and Mrs Elson
This half term in Team Azure, 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 Azure!
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 29nd March 2025
Websites you could use –
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwmpfg8
- https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/ancient-Rome/353728
A big well done to our values winners this half term.
Rory, Georgia, Mattie, Kenny & Archie
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In Science this week we have been investigating magnets. In DT this term, we have been learning about linkages and levers.
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We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the Verulameum.
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World book day
Most of our team on World Book Day
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Congratulations to our Values Award Winners this Term - Henry, Mia, Charlie, Cooper and Logan
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These are the beautiful flowers we made in PSHE. They show our dreams and ambitions. They also show how we will overcome obstacles in our way to achieving them.
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Christmas jumper day
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French
We have been learning how to greet each other in French - do you like our French puppets?
We have been learning how to greet each other in French
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Through the Ages Optional Home Learning Project
Year 3
During Autumn Term, Year 3's topic focus will be the through the ages. To support your child's learning and understanding of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, we would like to invite you and your child to take part in a homework project. Your child can choose one of the following categories which they could do for their project:
- Research an aspect of pre-historic Britain: the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Iron Age and use what you find out to create a fact file.
- Cave homes – During the Stone Age, people lived in caves. If you had to live in a cave, what would you like it to look like and what would be in it? Be as creative and imaginative as you like! Maybe you could build your own 3D cave to bring in!
- Make up your own story, it can be about anything you like and you can tell it through cave art pictures.
- Stone Age recipes – Stone Age people could not pop to the shops for food. Everything they ate had to be caught or collected. Write your own recipe for a Stone Age dinner using the sort of ingredients that would be available to them.
- You could even design your own Stone, Bronze or Iron Age house.
- Prehistoric Tools – Find out and write about tools that were used in each of the Ages (Stone, Bronze and Iron). You can also draw pictures to go with your writing.
- Stone Age Jewellery – Stone Age people made bead necklaces, pendants and brooches. Make your own piece of jewellery which you can bring in.
- Stonehenge Model – Find out about Stonehenge. Make a model or draw a landscape picture of Stonehenge and write some information to go with it.
These activities can be carried out in a way that suits your child best. For example; you could make a fact book, a plan, a model or a drawing.
Completed projects can be brought into school as soon as they are completed but by the latest Wednesday 11th December.
Web links that you may find helpful
- www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk/year/zmyxxyc